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Theory and the premodern text /

Insisting on the imaginative multiplicity of the text, Strohm finds in theory an augmentation of interpretive possibilities--an augmentation that sometimes requires respectful disagreement with what a work says--or seems to want known--about itself. Coupled with this strategic disrespect is a new an...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Strohm, Paul, 1938-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2000.
Colección:Medieval cultures ; v. 26.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I: SPACE, SYMBOLIZATION, AND SOCIAL PRACTICE; 1. Three London Itineraries: Aesthetic Purity and the Composing Process; 2. Walking Fire: Symbolization, Action, and Lollard Burning; 3. Coronation as Legible Practice; PART II: TIME AND NARRATIVE; 4. "Lad with Revel to Newegate": Chaucerian Narrative and Historical Metanarrative; 5. Fictions of Time and Origin: Friar Huberd and the Lepers; 6. Chaucer's Troilus as Temporal Archive; PART III: READING THE HISTORICAL TEXT; 7. Prohibiting History: Capgrave and the Death of Richard II
  • 8. Trade, Treason, and the Murder of Janus Imperial9. Shakespeare's Oldcastle: Another Ill-Framed Knight; 10. Postmodernism and History; PART IV: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND MEDIEVAL STUDIES; 11. What Can We Know about Chaucer That He Didn't Know about Himself?; 12. John's Locked Box: Kingship and the Management of Desire; 13. Mellyagant's Primal Scene; Notes; Indexes; Protagonists, Events, and Selected Medieval Texts; Commentators, Theorists, and Selected Texts; Theoretical Concepts