Invention and Authorship in Medieval England
Author: Robert Edwards
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Published: 2017
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ISBN-13: 9780814275085
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Robert Edwards
Publisher:
Published: 2017
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ISBN-13: 9780814275085
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Robert Edwards
Publisher:
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780814213407
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Robert R. Edward's Invention and Authorship in Medieval England examines the ways in which writers established themselves as authors in medieval England. It offers a critical appraisal of authorship in literary culture and shows how the conventions of authorship are used aesthetically by major writers of the period.
Author: David K. Coley
Publisher: Interventions: New Studies Med
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780814213902
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Shows how English responses to the Black Death were hidden in plain sight--as seen in the Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight poems.
Author: Matthew Fisher
Publisher:
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9780814270318
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Laurie Atkinson
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2024-03-05
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 1843846926
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An investigation of English and Scottish dream visions written on the cusp of the "Renaissance", teasing out distinctive ideas of authorship which informed their design. The fifteenth and sixteenth centuries have long been acknowledged as a period of profound change in ideas of authorship, in which a transition from a "medieval" to a "modern" paradigm took place. In England and Scotland, changing approaches to Chaucer have rightly been considered as a catalyst for the elevation of English as a literary language and the birth of an English literary history. There is a tendency, however, when moving from Chaucer's self-professed poetic followers of this time to the philological approach associated with William Caxton and the 1532 Works, to pass over the literary careers of the English and Scots poets belonging to the intervening half-century: John Skelton, William Dunbar, Stephen Hawes, and Gavin Douglas. This volume redresses that neglect. Its close and comparative readings of these poets' stimulating but critically neglected dream visions and related first-person narratives reveal a spectrum of ideas of authorship: four distinct engagements with tradition and opportunity, united by their utilisation of a particular form. It regards authorship as a topic of invention, a discourse for appropriation, which is available to but not inevitable in late medieval and early modern writing. Overall, it facilitates newly focussed study of an often obscured literary-historical period, one with a heightened interest in the authors of the past - Chaucer, Lydgate, Petrarch, Virgil - but also an increasingly acute perception of the conditions of authorship in the present.
Author: Katherine H Terrell
Publisher:
Published: 2021-04
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ISBN-13: 9780814214626
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Combines literary and historiographical scholarship to examine Scottish writers who created a literary-cultural nationalist project by appropriating and subverting English literary models.
Author: Rory G. Critten
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 1843845059
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The works of four major fifteenth-century writers re-examined, showing their innovative reconceptualization of Middle English authorship and the manuscript book.
Author: Stephen Partridge
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2012-06-29
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 144266701X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The current focus on the theme of authorship in Medieval and Early Modern studies reopens questions of poetic agency and intent. Bringing into conversation several kinds of scholarship on medieval authorship, the essays in Author, Reader, Book examine interrelated questions raised by the relationship between an author and a reader, the relationships between authors and their antecedents, and the ways in which authorship interacts with the physical presentation of texts in books. The broad chronological range within this volume reveals the persistence of literary concerns that remain consistent through different periods, languages, and cultural contexts. Theoretical reflections, case studies from a wide variety of languages, examinations of devotional literature from figures such as Bishop Reginald Pecock, and analyses of works that are more secular in focus, including some by Chaucer and Christine de Pizan, come together in this volume to transcend linguistic and disciplinary boundaries.
Author: Fabrizio De Falco
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2024-01-21
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 3031433521
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Authors, Factions, and Courts in Angevin England: A Literature of Personal Ambition (12th-13th Century) advances a model for historical study of courtly literature by foregrounding the personal aims, networks, and careers as the impetus for much of the period’s literature. The book takes two authors as case studies – Gerald of Wales and Walter Map – to show how authors not only built their own stories but also used popular narratives and the tools of propaganda to achieve their own, personal goals. The purpose of this study is to overturn the top-down model of political patronage, in which patrons – and particularly royal patrons – set the cultural agenda and dictate literary tastes. Rather, Fabrizio De Falco argues that authors were often representative of many different interests expressed by local groups. To pursue those interests, they targeted specific political factions in the changeable political scenario of Angevin England. Their texts reveal a polycentric view of cultural production and its reception. The study aims to model a heuristic process which is applicable to other courtly texts besides the chosen case-studies.
Author: Matthew Phillpott
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-06-14
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 0429886055
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book is a detailed examination of the sources and protocols John Foxe used to justify the Reformation, and claim that the Church of Rome had fallen into the grip of Antichrist. The focus is on the pre-Lollard, medieval history in the first two editions of the Acts and Monuments. Comparison of the narrative that Foxe writes to the possible sources helps us to better understand what it was that Foxe was trying to do, and how he came to achieve his aims. A focus on sources also highlights the collaborative circle in which Foxe worked, recognizing the essential role of other scholars and clerics such as John Bale and Matthew Parker.