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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788688003321

Titolo

Medieval poetics and social practice [[electronic resource] ] : responding to the work of Penn R. Szittya / / edited by Seeta Chaganti

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Fordham University Press, 2012

ISBN

0-8232-4327-3

0-8232-4328-1

0-8232-4623-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 p.)

Collana

Fordham series in medieval studies

Altri autori (Persone)

ChagantiSeeta

SzittyaPenn R. <1945->

Disciplina

821/.109353

Soggetti

English poetry - Middle English, 1100-1500 - History and criticism

Great Britain Social life and customs 1066-1485

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; Visual Translation in Fifteenth- Century English Manuscripts; Barn of Unity or the Dev il's Church? Salvation and Ecclesiology in Langland and the Wycliffites; Christian Poetics and Orthodox Practice: Meaning and Implication in Six Carols by James Ryman, O.F.M.; Enabled and Disabled "Myndes" in The Prick of Conscience; The Idea of Public Poetry in Lydgatean Religious Verse: Authority and the Common Voice in Devotional Literature; Nature's Yerde and Ward: Authority and Choice in Chaucer's Parliament of Fowls

Fabulous Women, Fables of Patronage: Metham's Amoryus and Cleopes and BL MS Additional 10304Dowel, the Proverbial, and the Vernacular: Some Versions of Pastoralia; Published Works by Penn R. Szittya; Penn R. Szittya as Scholar and Teacher; The Desire to Write Things Down: A Poetic Palimpsest on Certain Remarks by Penn Szittya; Notes; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This collection responds to the critical legacy of Penn R. Szittya, the recently retired former chair of Georgetown UniversityGs English Department. Inspired by GeorgetownGs Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice and its statement that poetry Gtraverses the fields of aesthetic, social, political, and religious thought,G this work



investigates how medieval poetic language reflects and also shapes social, political, and religious worlds. At a moment in contemporary culture when poetry finds its value increasingly challenged, Medieval Poetics and Social Practice looks to the late Middle Ag