Voice in Later Medieval English Literature

Voice in Later Medieval English Literature
Title Voice in Later Medieval English Literature PDF eBook
Author David Lawton
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 256
Release 2017
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0198792409

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David Lawton approaches later medieval English vernacular culture in terms of voice. As texts and discourses shift in translation and in use from one language to another, antecedent texts are revoiced in ways that recreate them (as "public interiorities") without effacing their history or future. The approach yields important insights into the voice work of late medieval poets, especially Langland and Chaucer, and also their fifteenth-century successors, who treat their work as they have treated their precursors. It also helps illuminate vernacular religious writing and its aspirations, and it addresses literary and cultural change, such as the effect of censorship and increasing political instability in and beyond the fifteenth century. Lawton also proposes his emphasis on voice as a literary tool of broad application, and his book has a bold and comparative sweep that encompasses the Pauline letters, Augustine's Confessions, the classical precedents of Virgil and Ovid, medieval contemporaries like Machaut and Petrarch, extra-literary artists like Monteverdi, later poets such as Wordsworth, Heaney, and Paul Valery, and moderns such as Jarry and Proust. What justifies such parallels, the author claims, is that late medieval texts constitute the foundation of a literary history of voice that extends to modernity. The book's energy is therefore devoted to the transformative reading of later medieval texts, in order to show their original and ongoing importance as voice work.

Antimercantilism in Late Medieval English Literature

Antimercantilism in Late Medieval English Literature
Title Antimercantilism in Late Medieval English Literature PDF eBook
Author R. Ladd
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
Pages 218
Release 2010-10-18
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9781349382798

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This study explores the relationship between ideology and subjectivity in late medieval literature, documenting the trajectory of antimercantile ideology against major developments in economic theory and practice in the later Middle Ages.

Later Medieval English Literature

Later Medieval English Literature
Title Later Medieval English Literature PDF eBook
Author Douglas Gray
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 728
Release 2008-04-10
Genre History
ISBN 0198122187

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A guide to the literature written in English from the death of Chaucer to the early sixteenth century from one of the period's pre-eminent literary scholars. Includes a valuable chronology, an informative introductory survey, and detailed sections on prose, poetry, Scottish writing, and drama.

Revelation and the Apocalypse in Late Medieval Literature

Revelation and the Apocalypse in Late Medieval Literature
Title Revelation and the Apocalypse in Late Medieval Literature PDF eBook
Author Justin M. Byron-Davies
Publisher University of Wales Press
Pages 226
Release 2020-02-01
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1786835177

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The book will equip the reader with a stronger understanding of the religious and historical background to these late medieval texts. It will provide insight into the influence of the biblical Apocalypse upon the literature of the period in a systematic way. Importantly, by treating the writings of Julian of Norwich and William Langland as contemporaneous the book balances the female and male approaches to and engagement with the biblical Apocalypse.

Greenery

Greenery
Title Greenery PDF eBook
Author Gillian Rudd
Publisher Manchester University Press
Pages 238
Release 2007
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9780719072482

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Greenery reaches back and offers new readings of English texts, both known and unfamiliar, informed by eco-criticism. After considering general issues pertaining to green criticism, Greenery moves on to a series of individual chapters arranged by theme (earth, trees, wilds, sea, gardens and fields) which provide individual close readings of selections from such familiar texts as Malory's Morte D'Arthur, Chaucer's Knight's and Franklin's Tales, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Langland's Piers Plowman.

Money, Commerce, and Economics in Late Medieval English Literature

Money, Commerce, and Economics in Late Medieval English Literature
Title Money, Commerce, and Economics in Late Medieval English Literature PDF eBook
Author Craig E. Bertolet
Publisher Springer
Pages 192
Release 2018-02-07
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 3319719009

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This is the first collection of essays dedicated to the topics of money and economics in the English literature of the late Middle Ages. These essays explore ways that late medieval economic thought informs contemporary English texts and apply modern modes of economic analysis to medieval literature. In so doing, they read the importance and influence of historical records of practices as aids to contextualizing these texts. They also apply recent modes of economic history as a means to understand the questions the texts ask about economics, trade, and money. Collectively, these papers argue that both medieval and modern economic thought are key to valuable historical contextualization of medieval literary texts, but that this criticism can be advanced only if we also recognize the specificity of the economic and social conditions of late-medieval England.

Immaterial Texts in Late Medieval England

Immaterial Texts in Late Medieval England
Title Immaterial Texts in Late Medieval England PDF eBook
Author Daniel Wakelin
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 301
Release 2022-06-09
Genre History
ISBN 1009100580

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Daniel Wakelin introduces and reinterprets the misunderstood and overlooked craft practices, cultural conventions and literary attitudes involved in making some of the most important manuscripts in late medieval English literature. In doing so he overturns how we view the role of scribes, showing how they ignored or concealed irregular and damaged parchment; ruled pages from habit and convention more than necessity; decorated the division of the text into pages or worried that it would harm reading; abandoned annotations to poetry, focusing on the poem itself; and copied English poems meticulously, in reverence for an abstract idea of the text. Scribes' interest in immaterial ideas and texts suggests their subtle thinking as craftspeople, in ways that contrast and extend current interpretations of late medieval literary culture, 'material texts' and the power of materials. For students, researchers and librarians, this book offers revelatory perspectives on the activities of late medieval scribes.