Medieval Texts and Contemporary Readers
Title | Medieval Texts and Contemporary Readers PDF eBook |
Author | Laurie A. Finke |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | 284 |
Release | 2019-06-30 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1501741888 |
This collection brings together twelve original essays by prominent medievalists which address problems posed by contemporary literary and cultural theory. Taken together, the essays call into question the view that contemporary criticism has little to say about medieval literature and that medieval studies should remain isolated from the issues of contemporary criticism. The contributors apply a variety of critical methodologies to explore issues in textuality, intertextuality, and the role of the reader in works of medieval writers as diverse as Chaucer, Dante, Christine de Pizan, Anselm, and Talavera. Incorporating critical approaches such as deconstructionism, Marxism, feminism, new-historicism and reader-response criticism, the essays place these writers and their texts within a wider realm of cultural reference that embraces philosophy, religion, rhetoric, history, politics, and anthropology.
Medieval Texts & Contemporary Readers
Title | Medieval Texts & Contemporary Readers PDF eBook |
Author | Laurie Finke |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 264 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780801420030 |
Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature
Title | Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature PDF eBook |
Author | C. S. Lewis |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 213 |
Release | 2013-11-07 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1107658926 |
An invaluable collection for those who read and love Lewis and medieval and Renaissance literature.
Material Remains
Title | Material Remains PDF eBook |
Author | Jan-Peer Hartmann |
Publisher | Interventions: New Studies Med |
Total Pages | 302 |
Release | 2021 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780814214749 |
Examines how medieval and early modern British texts use descriptions of archaeological objects to produce aesthetic and literary responses to questions of historicity and epistemology.
Reading Literary Animals
Title | Reading Literary Animals PDF eBook |
Author | Karen L. Edwards |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 415 |
Release | 2019-08-29 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1351603914 |
Reading Literary Animals explores the status and representation of animals in literature from the Middle Ages to the present day. Essays by leading scholars in the field examine various figurative, agential, imaginative, ethical, and affective aspects of literary encounters with animality, showing how practices of close reading provoke new ways of thinking about animals and the texts in which they appear. Through investigations of works by Shakespeare, Aphra Behn, William Wordsworth, Charles Dickens, Virginia Woolf, and Ted Hughes, among many others, Reading Literary Animals demonstrates the value of distinctively literary animal studies.
The Tolkien Fan's Medieval Reader
Title | The Tolkien Fan's Medieval Reader PDF eBook |
Author | Turgon |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 404 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN |
This thrilling volume features modern language versions of the centuries-old classics that directly inspired J.R.R. Tolkien's epics.
Controlling Readers
Title | Controlling Readers PDF eBook |
Author | Deborah L. McGrady |
Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | 349 |
Release | 2012-12-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1442615540 |
Guillaume de Machaut (1300-1377) was the master poet of fourteenth-century France. He established models for much of the vernacular poetry written by subsequent generations, and he was instrumental in institutionalizing the lay reader. In particular, his longest and most important work, the Voir dit, calls attention to the coexistence of public and private reading practices through its intensely hybrid form: sixty-three poems and ten songs invite an oral performance, while forty-six private prose letters as well as elaborate illustration and references to it's own materiality promote a physical encounter with the book. In Controlling Readers, Deborah McGrady uses Machaut's corpus as a case study to explore the impact of lay literacy on the culture of late-medieval Europe. Arguing that Machaut and his bookmakers were responding to contemporary debates surrounding literacy, McGrady first accounts for the formal invention of the lay reader in medieval art and literature, then analyses Machaut and his bookmakers' innovative use of both narrative and bibliographical devices to try to control the responses of his readers and promote intimate and sensual reading practices in place of the more common public performances of court culture. McGrady's erudite and exhaustive study is key to understanding Machaut, his works, and his influence on the history of reading in the fourteenth-century and beyond.