Middle English literature [[electronic resource] ] : a guide to criticism / / edited by Roger Dalrymple

• Pubblicazione: Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (284 p.)
• Disciplina: 820.9/001
• Soggetto topico: English literature - Middle English, 1100-1500 - History and criticism
• Altri autori: DalrympleRoger <1971->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [234]-254) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Middle English Literature: A Guide to Criticism; Contents; Contents Arranged by Middle English Author / Text; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Authorship; The Critical Approach (1970); Literary Theory and Literary Practice (1984); Authority (1994); 2 Textual Form; The hoole book (1963); Division and Failure in Gower's Confessio Amantis (1988); 3 Genre; Middle English Narrative Genres (1980); The Religious Tradition (1982); 4 Language, Style, Rhetoric; Early Medieval Narrative Style (1987); The Language of Service and Household Rhetoric (1993); Three Languages (1996); 5 Allegory ; Patristic Criticism: The Opposition (1960)The Poets (1967); Intellectual and Religious Interpretations (1975); Allegorical Buildings in Mediaeval Literature (1994); 6 Literature and History; Economics (2001); Constructing Social Realities (2001); 7 Gender; Sexual Economics, Chaucer's Wife of Bath, and The Book of Margery Kempe (1983); Medieval Medical Views of Women and Female Spirituality (1993); Violence as Symbolic Capital in Malory's Morte Darthur (1998); 8 Identity; Characterisation in the English Mystery Cycles (1983) ; Community, Virtue and Individual Identity in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (1988)Troilus and Criseyde and the Subject of History (1991); Afterword; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Middle English is a student guide to the most influential critical writing on Middle English literature. A student guide to the most influential critical writing on Middle English literature. Brings together extracts from some of the major authorities in the field. Introduces readers to different critical approaches to key Middle English texts. Treats a wide range of Middle English texts, including The Owl and the Nightingale, The Canterbury Tales and Morte d'Arthur. Organized around key critical concerns, such as authorship,
• Titolo autorizzato: Middle English literature
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910790181403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Blackwell guides to criticism.