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Author | : Jordan Zweck |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 2018-02-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1487512252 |
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As challenging as it is to imagine how an educated cleric or wealthy lay person in the early Middle Ages would have understood a letter (especially one from God), it is even harder to understand why letters would have so captured the imagination of people who might never have produced, sent, or received letters themselves. In Epistolary Acts, Jordan Zweck examines the presentation of letters in early medieval vernacular literature, including hagiography, prose romance, poetry, and sermons on letters from heaven, moving beyond traditional genre study to offer a radically new way of conceptualizing Anglo-Saxon epistolarity. Zweck argues that what makes early medieval English epistolarity unique is the performance of what she calls “epistolary acts,” the moments when authors represent or embed letters within vernacular texts. The book contributes to a growing interest in the intersections between medieval studies and media studies, blending traditional book history and manuscript studies with affect theory, media studies, and archive studies.
Author | : Susan M. Fitzmaurice |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2002-01-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027251150 |
Download The Familiar Letter in Early Modern English Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This research monograph examines familiar letters in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English to provide a pragmatic reading of the meanings that writers make and readers infer. The first part of the book presents a method of analyzing historical texts. The second part seeks to validate this method through case studies that illuminate how modern pragmatic theory may be applied to distant speech communities in both history and culture in order to reveal how speakers understand one another and how they exploit intended and unintended meanings for their own communicative ends. The analysis demonstrates the application of pragmatic theory (including speech act theory, deixis, politeness, implicature, and relevance theory) to the study of historical, literary and fictional letters from extended correspondences, producing an historically informed, richly situated account of the meanings and interpretations of those letters that a close reading affords. This book will be of interest to scholars of the history of the English language, historical pragmatics, discourse analysis, as well as to social and cultural historians, and literary critics.
Author | : Jordan Zweck |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 2018-01-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1487501005 |
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In Epistolary Acts, Jordan Zweck examines the presentation of letters in early medieval vernacular literature, including hagiography, prose romance, poetry, and sermons on letters from heaven, moving beyond traditional genre study to offer a radically new way of conceptualizing Anglo-Saxon epistolarity.
Author | : William C. Dowling |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 2014-07-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1400862205 |
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The eighteenth-century verse epistle, argues William Dowling, was an attempt to solve in literary terms the dilemma of solipsism as raised by Locke and Hume. The focus of The Epistolary Moment is on internal audience in poetry--the audience "inside" the poem, created by its discourse and belonging to its world--as this divides in epistolary poetry into a double or simultaneous register of address: the audience directly addressed by the letter-writer, and an epistolary audience listening in on the exchange from a point external to the discourse of the speaker but internal to the discourse of the poem. Epistolary audience lies, contends The Epistolary Moment, at the heart of an Augustan theory of poetry as ideological intervention, poems as symbolic acts with enormous consequences in the domain of the real. The emergence of the verse epistle as the dominant form in eighteenth-century poetry thus takes as its ultimate context the origins of eighteenth-century solipsism in a degraded modernity symbolized by Sir Robert Walpole and his Robinocracy, the demonic representatives of a new money or market society arising from the ruins of organic or traditional community. Originally published in 1991. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author | : Anne Bower |
Publisher | : University of Alabama Press |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2014-11-20 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0817358145 |
Download Epistolary Responses Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Letters - a most traditional and old-fashioned form of discourse - continue to offer special opportunities for writers and readers in the postmodern era. Bower explores the way letters shape the act of writing and writing as act.
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1050 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Bible |
ISBN | : |
Download The New Interpreter's Bible: Acts, introduction to epistolary literature, Romans, 1 Corinthians Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Leander E. Keck |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 17 |
Release | : 2005 |
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ISBN | : |
Download The Acts of the Apostels, Introduction to Epistolary Literature, the Letter to the Romans, the First Letter to the Corinthians Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Francis Atterbury (bp. of Rochester.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 472 |
Release | : 1783 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Download The epistolary correspondence, vistation charges, speeches, and miscellanies, of ... Francis Atterbury, with historical notes [by J. Nichols]. Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : W. Clark Gilpin |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2024-06-24 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0271097922 |
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Letters from prison testifying to deeply felt ethical principles have a long history, extending from antiquity to the present day. In the early modern era, the rise of printing houses helped turn these letters into a powerful form of political and religious resistance. W. Clark Gilpin’s fascinating book examines how letter writers in England—ranging from archbishops to Quaker women—consolidated the prison letter as a literary form. Drawing from a large collection of printed prison letters written from the reign of Henry VIII to the closing decades of the seventeenth century, Gilpin explores the genre's many facets within evolving contexts of reformation and revolution. The writers of these letters portrayed the prisoner of conscience as a distinct persona and the prison as a place of redemptive suffering where bearing witness had the power to change society. The Letter from Prison features a diverse cast of characters and a literary genre that combines drama and inspiration. It is sure to appeal to those interested in early modern England, prison literature, and cultural forms of resistance.
Author | : Richard John Knowling |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 1904 |
Genre | : Bible |
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