Reading literature historically : drama and poetry from Chaucer to the Reformation / / Greg Walker [[electronic resource]]
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| Autore: |
Walker Greg <1959->
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| Titolo: |
Reading literature historically : drama and poetry from Chaucer to the Reformation / / Greg Walker [[electronic resource]]
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| Pubblicazione: | Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (206 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina: | 820.9003 |
| Soggetto topico: | Historicism in literature |
| English drama - To 1500 - History and criticism | |
| English drama - Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 - History and criticism | |
| English poetry - Middle English, 1100-1500 - History and criticism | |
| English poetry - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism | |
| Note generali: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015). |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Introduction : literature and history : the risks of conversation -- pt. I. Drama. Early Tudor drama and the arts of resistance -- 'To speak before the king, it is no child's play' : Godly Queen Hester in 1529 -- Flytyng in the face of convention : protest and innovation in Lindsay's Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis -- pt. II. Poetry, 1380-1532. Courtesy and chivalry in Sir Gawain and the green knight -- The plowman's tale and the politics of 1532 : a cautionary tale? -- Rough girls and squeamish boys : the trouble with Absolon in The miller's tale. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | How far should we try to read medieval and early modern texts historically? Does the attempt to uncover how such texts might have been received by their original readers and audiences uncover new, hitherto unexpected contemporary resonances in them? Or does it flatten works of art into mere 'secondary sources' for historical analysis? This book makes the case for the study of literature in context. It demonstrates the value of historical and cultural analysis alongside traditional literary scholarship for enriching our understanding of plays and poems from the medieval and early Tudor past and of the cultures which produced and received them. It equally accepts the risks involved in that kind of study. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Reading literature historically |
| ISBN: | 0-7486-8443-3 |
| 1-299-45658-8 | |
| 0-7486-8102-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910819743003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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