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



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Titolo: Medieval poetics and social practice [[electronic resource] ] : responding to the work of Penn R. Szittya / / edited by Seeta Chaganti Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York, : Fordham University Press, 2012
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (256 p.)
Disciplina: 821/.109353
Soggetto topico: English poetry - Middle English, 1100-1500 - History and criticism
Soggetto geografico: Great Britain Social life and customs 1066-1485
Altri autori: ChagantiSeeta  
SzittyaPenn R. <1945->  
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
Titolo autorizzato: Medieval poetics and social practice  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8232-4327-3
0-8232-4328-1
0-8232-4623-X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910788688003321
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Serie: Fordham series in medieval studies.