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200 10$aWriting old age and impairments in late Medieval England /$fby Will Rogers$b[electronic resource]
210  1$aLeeds :$cArc Humanities Press,$d2021.
215   $a1 online resource (149 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s)
225 1 $aBorderlines
300   $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Jun 2021).
311   $a1-64189-255-2 
327   $tFrontmatter -- $tCONTENTS -- $tAcknowledgements -- $tIntroduction: Staves and Stanzas -- $tChapter 1. Crooked as a Staff: Narrative, History, and the Disabled Body in Parlement of Thre Ages -- $tChapter 2. A Reckoning with Age: Prosthetic Violence and the Reeve -- $tChapter 3. The Past is Prologue: Following the Trace of Master Hoccleve -- $tChapter 4. Playing Prosthesis and Revising the Past: Gower's Supplemental Role -- $tEpilogue: Impotence and Textual Healing -- $tWorks Cited -- $tIndex
330   $aThe old speaker in Middle English literature often claims to be impaired because of age. This admission is often followed by narratives that directly contradict it, as speakers, such as the Reeve in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales or Amans in Gower's Confessio Amantis, proceed to perform even as they claim debility. More than the modesty topos, this contradiction exists, the book argues, as prosthesis: old age brings with it debility, but discussing age-related impairments augments the old, impaired body, while simultaneously undercutting and emphasizing bodily impairments. This language of prosthesis becomes a metaphor for the works these speakers use to fashion narrative, which exist as incomplete yet powerful sources.
410  0$aBorderlines (Leeds, England)
606   $aEnglish literature$yMiddle English, 1100-1500$xHistory and criticism
606   $aOld age in literature
610   $aCaxton.
610   $aChaucer.
610   $aDisability.
610   $aHamlet.
610   $aHoccleve.
610   $aJohn Gower.
610   $aMiddle English literature.
610   $aPolonius.
610   $aprosthesis.
610   $arhetoric.
615  0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism.
615  0$aOld age in literature.
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