From Medieval to Medievalism
Published on 25. August 1992
Book
Paperback/Softback
IX, 161 pages
978-0-333-53274-4 (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.
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Edition
1992 edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
IX, 161 p.
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
231 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-53274-4 (9780333532744)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-349-22233-9
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Content
Acknowledgements - Notes on the Contributors - Introduction: From Medieval to Medievalism; J.Simons - Manuscript Studies: New Directions for Appreciating Middle English Romance; M.J.Evans - Medievalists and Deconstruction: an Exemplum; D.Aers - Traces of Romance Textual Poetics in the Non-Romance Works Ascribed to the 'Gawain'-Poet; B.Kowalik - Structure and Meaning in Guy of Warwick; M.Mills - Women and Chaucer's Providence: The Clerk's Tale and The Knight's Tale; C.La Farge - Popular Reading Tastes in Middle English Religious and Didactic Literature; J.J.Thompson - 'The Double-armed Man': Images of the Medieval in Early Modern Military Idealism; S.Barker - Romance in the Eighteenth-Century Chapbook; J.Simons - 'The Paths of Virtue and Early English': F.J.Furnivall and Victorian Medievalism; P.Faulkner - Index