03186nam 2200517 a 450 991080978170332120200520144314.0978019153700401915370049780191792137(MiAaPQ)EBC7038660(CKB)24235072500041(MiAaPQ)EBC415637(MiAaPQ)EBC4701387(Au-PeEL)EBL415637(CaPaEBR)ebr10197123(OCoLC)437093993(EXLCZ)992423507250004120070117d2007 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierMiddle English /edited by Paul Strohm1st ed.Oxford ;New York Oxford University Press2007xii, 521 p. illOxford twenty-first century approaches to literatureIncludes indexes.Includes bibliographical references and index.Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 Introduction -- Part I: CONDITIONS AND CONTEXTS -- 2 Manuscript Matrix, Modern Canon -- 3 Multilingualism -- 4 Multilingualism on the Page -- 5 Translation -- 6 Aurality -- 7 Books -- Part II: VANTAGE POINTS -- 8 Temporalities -- 9 Symbolic Economies -- 10 Authority -- 11 Institutions -- 12 Form -- 13 Episodes -- 14 Beauty -- 15 Imaginative Theory -- 16 Feeling -- 17 Conflict -- Part III: TEXTUAL KINDS AND CATEGORIES -- 18 Genre without System -- 19 Liturgy -- 20 Vision, Image, Text -- 21 Saintly Exemplarity -- 22 Speculative Genealogies -- 23 Incarnational (Auto)biography -- 24 Drama as Textual Practice -- 25 Vernacular Theology -- 26 Heresy and Humanism -- Part IV: WRITING AND THE WORLD -- 27 Authorial Work -- 28 Learning to Live -- 29 Gossip and (Un)official Writing -- 30 The Poetics of Practicality -- Index of Medieval Authors and Titles -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Index of Names -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Subject Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W.This volume energizes issues of research in Middle English studies by eschewing an emphasis on what 'we know' and instead addressing the most challenging areas of unfixed opinion and unsettled debate. Although major authors such as Chaucer and Langland are richly represented, many little-known and neglected texts are considered as well.Oxford twenty-first century approaches to literature.English literatureMiddle English, 1100-1500History and criticismEnglandIntellectual life1066-1485English literatureHistory and criticism.820.9/001Strohm Paul1938-1688476MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910809781703321Middle English4104702UNINA