From Medieval to Medievalism
John Simons(Editor)
Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)
Published on 30. April 1992
Book
Hardback
176 pages
978-0-333-53273-7 (ISBN)
Description
The book surveys medieval literature from both a critical and an historical standpoint. Medieval literature is increasingly seen as an area of intense specialism which is to be treated differently from other areas of English studies. The essays collected here try to overturn this perception in two ways. Firstly, there is a demonstration of the ways in which modern critical approaches and perspectives work with the medieval text. Secondly, the idea of the medieval is shown, historically, to be a discourse which has been given different symbolic values and served different social purposes. In the first half of the book will be found essays on feminist and structural approaches to the medieval text as well as a polemical evaluation of post-structuralist criticism and an introduction to modern approaches to manuscript studies. In the second half medievalism is analyzed through case studies from the Renaissance, the 18th-century and the 19th-century.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 220 mm
Width: 140 mm
Weight
340 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-53273-7 (9780333532737)
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Content
From medieval to medievalism, John Simons; manuscript studies - new directions for appreciating middle English Roman, Murray J. Evans; medievalists and deconstruction - an "exemplum", David Aers; traces of romance textual poetics in the non-Romance works ascribed to the "Gawain"-poet, Barbara Kowalik; structure and meaning in "Guy of Warwick", Maldwyn Mills; women and Chaucer's providence - "The Clerk's Tale" and "The Knight's Tale", Catherine La Farge; popular reading tastes in Middle English religious and didactic literature, John J. Thompson.