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Medieval Texts and Contemporary Readers /

This collection brings together twelve original essays by prominent medievalists which address problems posed by contemporary literary and cultural theory. Taken together, the essays call into question the view that contemporary criticism has little to say about medieval literature and that medieval...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Finke, Laurie A. (Autor)
Otros Autores: Shichtman, Martin B. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Editors' Preface
  • Introduction: Critical Theory and the Study of the Middle Ages / Shichtman, Martin B. / Finke, Laurie A.
  • PART I. Textuality
  • Oure Tonges Differance: Textuality and Deconstruction in 15 Chaucer / Leicester, H. Marshall
  • "I Shal Finde It in a Maner Glose": Versions of Textual 27 Harassment in Medieval Literature / Hanning, Robert W.
  • Truth's Treasure: Allegory and Meaning in Piers Plowman / Finke, Laurie A.
  • Inter Nocturnas Vigilias: A Proof Postponed / Mackey, Louis H.
  • PART II. Intertextuality
  • Gawain in Wace and Layamon: A Case of Metahistorical 103 Evolution / Shichtman, Martin B.
  • Absolute Reflexivity: Geoffroi de Vinsauf / Leupin, Alexandre
  • Wandrynge by the Weye: On Alisoun and Augustine / Knapp, Peggy A.
  • Models of Literary Influence in the Commedia / Jacoff, Rachel
  • "Mothers to Think Back Through": Who Are They? The Ambiguous Example of Christine de Pizan / Delany, Sheila
  • PART III. The Reader
  • Affective Criticism, the Pilgrimage of Reading, and Medieval English Literature / Travis, Peter W.
  • Hermeneutics of Reading in the Corbacho / Brownlee, Marina Scordilis
  • Oral-Formulaic Rhetoric: An Approach to Image and Message in Medieval Poetry / Renoir, Alain
  • Contributors
  • Index