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Author | : J. Mitchell |
Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 187 |
Release | : 2009-05-19 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781403974426 |
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Medieval writers were fascinated by fortune and misfortune, yet the critical problems raised by such explorations have not been adequately theorized. Allan Mitchell invites us to consider these contingencies in relation to an "ethics of the event." His book examines how Middle English writers including Chaucer, Gower, Lydgate, and Malory treat unpredictable events such as sexual attraction, political disaster, social competition, traumatic accidents, and the textual condition itself - locating in fortune the very potentiality of ethical life. While earlier scholarship has detailed the iconography of Lady Fortune, this book alters and advances the conversation so that we see fortune less as a negative exemplum than as a positive sign of radical phenomena.
Author | : J. Mitchell |
Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 187 |
Release | : 2009-05-19 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781349535040 |
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This study explores how fortune functions in relation to wider concerns about ethics and eventfulness in the works of Chaucer, Gower, Lydgate and Malory.
Author | : J. Mitchell |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 199 |
Release | : 2009-04-27 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0230620728 |
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Medieval writers were fascinated by fortune and misfortune, yet the critical problems raised by such explorations have not been adequately theorized. Allan Mitchell invites us to consider these contingencies in relation to an "ethics of the event." His book examines how Middle English writers including Chaucer, Gower, Lydgate, and Malory treat unpredictable events such as sexual attraction, political disaster, social competition, traumatic accidents, and the textual condition itself - locating in fortune the very potentiality of ethical life. While earlier scholarship has detailed the iconography of Lady Fortune, this book alters and advances the conversation so that we see fortune less as a negative exemplum than as a positive sign of radical phenomena.
Author | : Megan G. Leitch |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 343 |
Release | : 2021-07-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 152615109X |
Download Sleep and its spaces in Middle English literature Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Middle English literature is intimately concerned with sleep and the spaces in which it takes place. In the medieval English imagination, sleep is an embodied and culturally determined act. It is both performed and interpreted by characters and contemporaries, subject to a particular habitus and understood through particular hermeneutic lenses. While illuminating the intersecting medical and moral discourses by which it is shaped, sleep also sheds light on subjects in favour of which it has hitherto been overlooked: what sleep can enable (dreams and dream poetry) or what it can stand in for or supersede (desire and sex). This book argues that sleep mediates thematic concerns and questions in ways that have ethical, affective and oneiric implications. At the same time, it offers important contributions to understanding different Middle English genres: romance, dream vision, drama and fabliau.
Author | : Beatrice Fannon |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2015-12-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1350310077 |
Download Medieval English Literature Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume brings together a wide range of original, scholarly essays on key figures and topics in medieval literature by leading academics. The volume examines the major authors such as Chaucer, Langland and the Gawain Poet, and covers key topics in medieval literature, including gender, class, courtly and popular culture, and religion. The volume seeks to provide a fresh and stimulating guide to medieval literature.
Author | : Eleanor Johnson |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2017-12-20 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 022652745X |
Download Practicing Literary Theory in the Middle Ages Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Literary scholars often avoid the category of the aesthetic in discussions of ethics, believing that purely aesthetic judgments can vitiate analyses of a literary work’s sociopolitical heft and meaning. In Practicing Literary Theory in the Middle Ages, Eleanor Johnson reveals that aesthetics—the formal aspects of literary language that make it sense-perceptible—are indeed inextricable from ethics in the writing of medieval literature. Johnson brings a keen formalist eye to bear on the prosimetric form: the mixing of prose with lyrical poetry. This form descends from the writings of the sixth-century Christian philosopher Boethius—specifically his famous prison text, Consolation of Philosophy—to the late medieval English tradition. Johnson argues that Boethius’s text had a broad influence not simply on the thematic and philosophical content of subsequent literary writing, but also on the specific aesthetic construction of several vernacular traditions. She demonstrates the underlying prosimetric structures in a variety of Middle English texts—including Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde and portions of the Canterbury Tales, Thomas Usk’s Testament of Love, John Gower’s Confessio amantis, and Thomas Hoccleve’s autobiographical poetry—and asks how particular formal choices work, how they resonate with medieval literary-theoretical ideas, and how particular poems and prose works mediate the tricky business of modeling ethical transformation for a readership.
Author | : David Lawton |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0198792409 |
Download Voice in Later Medieval English Literature Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
David Lawton approaches later medieval English vernacular culture in terms of voice. As texts and discourses shift in translation and in use from one language to another, antecedent texts are revoiced in ways that recreate them (as "public interiorities") without effacing their history or future. The approach yields important insights into the voice work of late medieval poets, especially Langland and Chaucer, and also their fifteenth-century successors, who treat their work as they have treated their precursors. It also helps illuminate vernacular religious writing and its aspirations, and it addresses literary and cultural change, such as the effect of censorship and increasing political instability in and beyond the fifteenth century. Lawton also proposes his emphasis on voice as a literary tool of broad application, and his book has a bold and comparative sweep that encompasses the Pauline letters, Augustine's Confessions, the classical precedents of Virgil and Ovid, medieval contemporaries like Machaut and Petrarch, extra-literary artists like Monteverdi, later poets such as Wordsworth, Heaney, and Paul Valery, and moderns such as Jarry and Proust. What justifies such parallels, the author claims, is that late medieval texts constitute the foundation of a literary history of voice that extends to modernity. The book's energy is therefore devoted to the transformative reading of later medieval texts, in order to show their original and ongoing importance as voice work.
Author | : M. Hayes |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 2011-04-25 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0230118739 |
Download Divine Ventriloquism in Medieval English Literature Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A study of medieval attitudes towards the ventriloquism of God's and Christ's voices through human media, which reveals a progression from an orthodox view of divine vocal power to an anxiety over the authority of the priest's voice to a subversive take on the divine voice that foreshadows Protestant devotion.
Author | : R. Ladd |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 2010-10-18 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 023011198X |
Download Antimercantilism in Late Medieval English Literature Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This study explores the relationship between ideology and subjectivity in late medieval literature, documenting the trajectory of antimercantile ideology against major developments in economic theory and practice in the later Middle Ages.
Author | : Tara Williams |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 2018-01-03 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0271081767 |
Download Middle English Marvels Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This multidisciplinary volume illustrates how representations of magic in fourteenth-century romances link the supernatural, spectacle, and morality in distinctive ways. Supernatural marvels represented in vivid visual detail are foundational to the characteristic Middle English genres of romance and hagiography. In Middle English Marvels, Tara Williams explores the didactic and affective potential of secular representations of magic and shows how fourteenth-century English writers tested the limits of that potential. Drawing on works by Augustine, Gervase of Tilbury, Chaucer, and the anonymous poets of Sir Orfeo and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, among others, Williams examines how such marvels might convey moral messages within and beyond the narrative. She analyzes examples from both highly canonical and more esoteric texts and examines marvels that involve magic and transformation, invoke visual spectacle, and invite moral reflection on how one should relate to others. Within this shared framework, Williams finds distinct concerns—chivalry, identity, agency, and language—that intersect with the marvelous in significant ways. Integrating literary and historical approaches to the study of magic, this volume convincingly shows how certain fourteenth-century texts eschewed the predominant trends and developed a new theory of the marvelous. Williams’s engaging, erudite study will be of special interest to scholars of the occult, the medieval and early modern eras, and literature.