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The clerical proletariat and the resurgence of medieval English poetry /
The first study of the poetics of vocational crisis in Langland, Hoccleve, and Audelay, and many unattributed works, The Clerical Proletariat and the Resurgence of Medieval English Poetry discusses class, meritocracy, the gig economy, precarity, and the breaking of intellectual elites, speaking to b...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2021]
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| Colección: | Middle Ages series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction. The Clericus class, underemployment, and the golden age of Middle English poetry
- Part I. Clerical proletarians and the resurgence of English poetry : vocational crisis and self-representation
- Precedents for clerical crisis and authorial intervention in early Middle English
- Poetry of vocational crisis in Langland's Apologia and the early Langlandian tradition
- Career disappointment and Langlandian tradition I : Hoccleve's missed opportunity and self-portraiture in vocational crisis - Career disappointment and Langlandian tradition II : John Audelay as the voice for a lost generation
- Part II. The ligurgical and cathedral service class and resurgent English verse
- Cathedral songs : lyric genres of the choral service class and resurgent English
- Satire, drama, and censorship : submerged literary circles at the cathedral
- The clerical proletariat and public genres of the cathedral world : St. Erkenwald as a St. Paul's text
- Conclusion. The poet as public intellectual : achievements and characteristics of proletarian writers.