Life in words : essays on Chaucer, the Gawain-poet, and Malory /

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This volume collects fifteen landmark essays published over the last three decades by the distinguished medievalist Jill Mann.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Mann, Jill (Author)
Other Authors: Rasmussen, Mark David, 1953- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2014]
Subjects:
Chaucer, Geoffrey, > -1400 > Criticism and interpretation.
Chaucer, Geoffrey, > -1400 > Language.
Gawain > (Legendary character) > Romances > History and criticism.
Malory, Thomas, > Sir, > active 15th century > Criticism and interpretation.
Malory, Thomas, > Sir, > active 15th century > Language.
Chaucer, Geoffrey, > -1400.
Gawain > (Legendary character)
Malory, Thomas, > Sir, > active 15th century.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
Gawain and the Grene Knight.
1100 - 1500
English literature > Middle English, 1100-1500 > History and criticism.
English language > Middle English, 1100-1500 > Semantics.
Literature, Medieval > Themes, motives.
Arthurian romances > History and criticism.
Littérature anglaise > 1100-1500 (Moyen anglais) > Histoire et critique.
Littérature médiévale > Thèmes, motifs.
Cycle d'Arthur > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
HISTORY > Medieval.
Romances.
Arthurian romances.
English language > Middle English > Semantics.
English literature > Middle English.
Language and languages.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1 Troilus's Swoon
  • 2 Shakespeare and Chaucer: "What is Criseyde Worth?"
  • 3 Chance and Destiny in Troilus and Criseyde and the Knight's Tale
  • 4 Chaucerian Themes and Style in the Franklin's Tale
  • 5 Anger and "Glosynge" in the Canterbury Tales
  • 6 The Authority of the Audience in Chaucer
  • 7 Parents and Children in the Canterbury Tales
  • 8 Satisfaction and Payment in Middle English Literature
  • 9 Price and Value in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
  • 10 Courtly Aesthetics and Courtly Ethics in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
  • 11 Sir Gawain and the Romance Hero
  • 12 Knightly Combat in Malory's Morte d'Arthur
  • 13 "Taking the Adventure": Malory and the Suite du Merlin
  • 14 The Narrative of Distance, The Distance of Narrative in Malory's Morte d'Arthur
  • 15 Malory and the Grail Legend.

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