New Medieval Literatures - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1843846462 ISBN 13 : 9781843846468

Editeur : D.S. Brewer, 2023

Synopsis

Essays in this volume engage with widely varied themes: law and literature; manuscript production, patronage, and aesthetics; real and imagined geographies; gender and its connections to narrative theory and to psychoanalysis. Investigations range from the eleventh to the fifteenth centuries, from England to the eastern Mediterranean. New arguments are put forward about the dating, context, and occasion of Geoffrey Chaucer's Boece, while the narrative dynamics of Chaucer's "Franklin's Tale" and "Tale of Melibee" are examined from new perspectives. The topography of the Holy Lands appears both as a set of emotional sites, depicted in the Prick of Conscience in its account of the end of the world, and as co-ordinates in the cultural imaginary of the medieval wine-trade. Grendel's mother emerges as the invisible and unavowable centre of male heroic culture in Beowulf, and the fourteenth-century St Erkenwald is brought into contact with the community-building project of the medieval death investigation. Finally, the late medieval Speculum Christiani is revealed to be a work with deep aesthetic investments when read through the framework of how its medieval scribes encountered and shaped that work.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

PHILIP KNOX is University Lecturer in the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge.

LAURA ASHE is Professor of English at the University of Oxford and Fellow and Tutor at Worcester College, Oxford.

KELLIE ROBERTSON is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Maryland.

WENDY SCASE is Emeritus Geoffrey Shepherd Professor of Medieval English Literature at the University of Birmingham.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: D.S. Brewer
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1843846462
• ISBN 13: 9781843846468
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 302
• Éditeur: Knox Philip, Ashe Laura, Robertson Professor Kellie, Scase Professor Wendy
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