Literary Character : The Human Figure in Early English Writing /

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"According to Fowler, the social person provides the template that enables authors to portray, and readers to recognize, the highly complex human figures that literature requires."--Jacket

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Fowler, Elizabeth, 1958- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2003.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Langland, William.
Chaucer, Geoffrey.
Skelton, John.
Spenser, Edmund.
Spenser, Edmund, > 1552?-1599
Chaucer, Geoffrey, > -1400
Spenser, Edmund, > 1552?-1599 > Political and social views.
Chaucer, Geoffrey, > -1400 > Political and social views.
Spenser, Edmund, > 1552?-1599 > Characters.
Chaucer, Geoffrey, > -1400 > Characters.
Faerie queene.
Pardoner's tale.
Tunnyng of Elynour Rummyng.
Piers Plowman.
Personages.
Engels.
Letterkunde.
Literarische Gestalt
Literatur
Political and social views.
Literature and society.
Human beings in literature.
English literature > Middle English.
English literature > Early modern.
Characters and characteristics in literature.
Characters and characteristics.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Medieval.
Homme dans la litterature.
Litterature et societe > Angleterre > Histoire > 16e siecle.
Litterature anglaise > 1100-1500 (Moyen anglais) > Histoire et critique.
Literature and society > England > History > To 1500.
Literature and society > England > History > 16th century.
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
English literature > Middle English, 1100-1500 > History and criticism.
Mittelenglisch.
England.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:"According to Fowler, the social person provides the template that enables authors to portray, and readers to recognize, the highly complex human figures that literature requires."--Jacket
"Drawing on central texts of medieval and early modern England, Fowler demonstrates that literary characters are created by assembling social persons from throughout culture. Her perspective allows her to offer strikingly original readings of works by Chaucer, Langland, Skelton, and Spenser, and to reformulate and resolve several classic interpretive problems. In so doing, she reframes accepted notions of the process and the consequences of reading." "Developing insights from law, theology, economic thought, and political philosophy, Fowler's book replaces the traditional view of characters as autonomous individuals with an interpretive approach in which each character is seen as a battle of many archetypes."
"Chaucer introduces the characters of the Knight and the Prioress in the General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales. Beginning with these familiar figures, Elizabeth Fowler develops a new method of analyzing literary character. She argues that words generate human figures in our reading minds by reference to paradigmatic cultural models of the person. These models - such as the pilgrim, the conqueror, the maid, the narrator - originate in a variety of cultural spheres. A concept Fowler terms the "social person" is the key to understanding both the literary details of specific characterizations and their indebtedness to history and culture."
Descripción Física:1 online resource (280 pages).
ISBN:9781501724169

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