Medieval Latin and Middle English Literature : Essays in Honour of Jill Mann
Christopher. Cannon
Bok Engelsk 2011 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Cambridge : D.S. Brewer , cop. 2011
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (281 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Frontcover; CONTENTS; PREFACE; BIBLIOGRAPHY OF JULL MANN'S WORKS; 1 The Man of Law's Tale and Crusade; 2 The Language Group of the Canterbury Tales; 3 'Save man allone': Human Exceptionality in Piers Plowman and the Exemplarist Tradition; 4 The Land of Cokaygne: Three Notes on the Latin Background; 5 The Canterbury Tales and Gamelyn; 6 The Cheerful Science: Nicholas Oresme, Home Economics, and Literary Dissemination; 7 The Poetics of Catastrophe: Ovidian Allusion in Gower's Vox Clamantis; 8 Preaching with the Hands: Carthusian Book Production and the Speculum devotorum. - 9 The Necessity of Difference: The Speech of Peace and the Doctrine of Contraries in Langland's Piers Plowman10 Chaucer's Complaint unto Pity and the Insights of Allegory; 11 Amor in claustro; 12 'And that was litel nede': Poetry's Need in Robert Henryson's Fables and Testament of Cresseid; 13 The Art of Swooning in Middle English; 14 The Theory of Passionate Song; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX; TABULA GRATULATORIA; Backcover. - Fresh and provocative approaches to the literature of the middle ages, offering close readings of texts from Chaucer to Henryson, and beast fable to devotional works.
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| ISBN | 9781843842637
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