Style and Consciousness in Middle English Narrative /

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John M. Ganim presents a revised theory of late medieval literary history based on the relationship of the poet to the reader. His work shows how the increasingly compromised exemplary intent of later medieval poets led them to dramatize the reader as a character in the text and to develop complex f...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ganim, John M., 1945- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1983]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Space and time in literature.
Romances, English.
Rhetoric, Medieval.
Reader-response criticism.
Narrative poetry, English.
Narration (Rhetoric)
English poetry > Middle English.
English language > Middle English > Style.
POETRY > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
POETRY > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Rhetorique medievale.
Esthetique de la reception.
Roman courtois anglais > Histoire et critique.
Poesie anglaise > 1100-1500 (Moyen anglais) > Histoire et critique.
Narration (Rhetoric) > History > To 1500.
Romances, English > History and criticism.
Narrative poetry, English > History and criticism.
English language > Middle English, 1100-1500 > Style.
English poetry > Middle English, 1100-1500 > History and criticism.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Community and Consciousness in Early Middle English Romance
  • Chapter 2. Disorientation, Style, and Perception in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
  • Chapter 3. Consciousness and Time in Troilus and Criseyde
  • Chapter 4. Mannerism and Moralism in Lydgate's Siege of Thebes
  • Chapter 5. The Limits of Vision in Henryson's Testament of Cresseid
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Index
  • Backmatter.

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