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Authorship and first-person allegory in late medieval France and England /

The emergence of vernacular allegories in the middle ages, recounted by a first-person narrator-protagonist, invites both abstract and specific interpretations of the author's role, since the protagonist who claims to compose the narrative also directs the reader to interpret such claims. Moreo...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kamath, Stephanie A. V. G.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Woodbridge, Suffolk (U.K.) : Boydell & Brewer, 2012.
Colección:Gallica (Woodbridge (Suffolk, England)) ; v. 26.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:The emergence of vernacular allegories in the middle ages, recounted by a first-person narrator-protagonist, invites both abstract and specific interpretations of the author's role, since the protagonist who claims to compose the narrative also directs the reader to interpret such claims. Moreover, the specific attributes of the narrator-protagonist bring greater attention to individual identity. But as the actual authors of the allegories also adapted elements found in each other's works, their shared literary tradition unites differing perspectives: the most celebrated French first-person al.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (228 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781846158698
1846158699