The Medieval British Literature Handbook
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Author | : Daniel T. Kline |
Publisher | : Continuum |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
One-stop resource for courses in medieval literature, providing students with a comprehensive guide to the historical and cultural context; major texts and movements; reading primary and critical texts; key critics, concepts and topics; major critical approaches and directions of new research.
Author | : Elaine Treharne |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 792 |
Release | : 2010-04-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0191613592 |
The study of medieval literature has experienced a revolution in the last two decades, which has reinvigorated many parts of the discipline and changed the shape of the subject in relation to the scholarship of the previous generation. 'New' texts (laws and penitentials, women's writing, drama records), innovative fields and objects of study (the history of the book, the study of space and the body, medieval masculinities), and original ways of studying them (the Sociology of the Text, performance studies) have emerged. This has brought fresh vigour and impetus to medieval studies, and impacted significantly on cognate periods and areas. The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English brings together the insights of these new fields and approaches with those of more familiar texts and methods of study, to provide a comprehensive overview of the state of medieval literature today. It also returns to first principles in posing fundamental questions about the nature, scope, and significance of the discipline, and the directions that it might take in the next decade. The Handbook contains 44 newly commissioned essays from both world-leading scholars and exciting new scholarly voices. Topics covered range from the canonical genres of Saints' lives, sermons, romance, lyric poetry, and heroic poetry; major themes including monstrosity and marginality, patronage and literary politics, manuscript studies and vernacularity are investigated; and there are close readings of key texts, such as Beowulf, Wulf and Eadwacer, and Ancrene Wisse and key authors from Ælfric to Geoffrey Chaucer, Langland, and the Gawain Poet.
Author | : Daniel T. Kline |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 646 |
Release | : 2009-08-25 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0826494099 |
One-stop resource for courses in medieval literature, providing students with a comprehensive guide to the historical and cultural context; major texts and movements; reading primary and critical texts; key critics, concepts and topics; major critical approaches and directions of new research.
Author | : R. M. Wilson |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2019-07-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0429515707 |
Originally published in 1952 The Lost Literature of Medieval England provides an account of lost masterpieces of medieval English literature. The book examines the evidence for their existence and pieces together a fuller understanding of the literary traditions of the period. In more specific detail, the book looks at the concept of Christian epics and religious and didactic literature, as well as the drama and the lyrical poetry of the period.
Author | : Andrew Galloway |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 161 |
Release | : 2006-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0826486576 |
An introductory guide provides a concise overview of medieval literature and its context.
Author | : Marion Turner |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 466 |
Release | : 2013-04-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0470655380 |
A Handbook of Middle English Studies “This sharp-minded, coherent set of essays both maps and liberates: not only does it map the intellectual territory of contemporary cultural debate; it also liberates the extraordinary texts of later medieval England to move across that contemporary cultural terrain.” James Simpson, Harvard University “Marion Turner has skilfully choreographed an exciting ensemble of fresh accounts of the English Middle Ages. We see the period in a new light that shows with compassion and imagination, as well as thoughtful scholarship, how the literature of the past speaks to contemporary preoccupations.” Ardis Butterfield, Yale University “Strikingly original: theory-literate and materially-grounded ways of reading Middle English texts.” David Wallace, University of Pennsylvania A Handbook of Middle English Studies presents twenty-six original and accessible essays by leading scholars, analyzing the relationship between critical theory and late-medieval literature. The collection offers a range of entry points into the rich field of medieval literary studies, exploring subjects including the depiction of the self and the mind, the literature of conquest, ideas of beauty and aesthetics, and the relationship between place and literature. Topics that have long been central to the field, such as authorship, gender, and race, feature alongside areas only recently coming under critical scrutiny, such as globalization, the environment, and animality. Collectively, the essays demonstrate that the manuscript culture of late medieval literature raises key theoretical issues concerning the relationship between authors, texts, and readers. A Handbook of Middle English Studies models diverse approaches to medieval texts and stakes a claim in debates about topics ranging from class to the canon, from imagination to nationhood, from sexuality to the public sphere.
Author | : Michael Johnston |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2015-08-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107066190 |
This book situates the medieval manuscript within its cultural contexts, with chapters by experts in bibliographical and theoretical approaches to manuscript study.
Author | : Angela Jane Weisl |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 2018-03-20 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1317210638 |
Medieval Literature: The Basics is an engaging introduction to this fascinating body of literature. The volume breaks down the variety of genres used in the corpus of medieval literature and makes these texts accessible to readers. It engages with the familiarities present in the narratives and connects these ideas with a contemporary, twenty-first century audience. The volume also addresses contemporary medievalism to show the presence of medieval literature in contemporary culture, such as film, television, games, and novels. From Dante and Chaucer to Christine de Pisan, this book deals with questions such as: What is medieval literature? What are some of the key topics and genres of medieval literature? How did it evolve as technology, such as the printing press, developed? How has it remained relevant in the twenty-first century? Medieval Literature: The Basics is an ideal introduction for students coming to the subject for the first time, while also acting as a springboard from which deeper interaction with medieval literature can be developed.
Author | : Jan-Peer Hartmann |
Publisher | : Interventions: New Studies Med |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780814214749 |
Examines how medieval and early modern British texts use descriptions of archaeological objects to produce aesthetic and literary responses to questions of historicity and epistemology.
Author | : Larry Scanlon |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 315 |
Release | : 2009-06-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521841674 |
A wide-ranging survey of the most important medieval authors and genres, designed for students of English.