{"product_id":"middle-english-literature-isbn-9780631232896","title":"Middle English Literature","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMiddle English\u003c\/i\u003e is a student guide to the most influential critical writing on Middle English literature.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eA student guide to the most influential critical writing on Middle English literature.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eBrings together extracts from some of the major authorities in the field.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIntroduces readers to different critical approaches to key Middle English texts.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eTreats a wide range of Middle English texts, including \u003ci\u003eThe Owl and the Nightingale, The Canterbury Tales\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMorte d'Arthur.\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOrganized around key critical concerns, such as authorship, genre, and textual form.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eEach critical concern can be used as the basis for one week's work in a semester-long course.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eEnables readers to forge new connections between different approaches.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  Contents Arranged by Middle English Text\/Author. \u003cp\u003ePreface.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1. Authorship:.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Lydgate: The Critical Approach: Derek Pearsall (1970).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLiterary Theory and Literary Practice: Alastair Minnis.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAuthority: Tim William Machan (1994).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2. Textual Form:.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Hoole Book: Derek Brewer (1963).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDivision and Failure in Gower’s Confessio Amantis: Hugh White (1988).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3. Genre:.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMiddle English Narrative Genres: Paul Strohm (1980).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Religious Tradition: Piero Boitani (1982).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4. Language, Style, Rhetoric:.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEarly Middle English Narrative Style: A.C. Spearing (1987).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Language of Service and Household Rhetoric in the Letters of the Paston Women: Diane Watt (1993).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThree Languages: Thorlac Turville-Petre (1996).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5. Allegory:.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePatristic Criticism: The Opposition: E. Talbot Donaldson (1960).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Poets: Siegfried Wenzel (1967).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntellectual and Religious Interpretations: Kathryn Hume (1975).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAllegorical Buildings in Medieval Literature: Jill Mann (1994).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6. Literature and History:.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConstructing Social Realities: Helen Barr (2001).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEconomics: John Bowers (2001).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7. Gender:.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSexual Economics: Chaucer’s Wife of Bath and The Book of Margery Kempe: Sheila Delany (1983).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMedieval Medical Views of Women and Female Spirituality in the Ancrene Wisse and Julian of Norwich’s Showings: Elizabeth Robertson (1993).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNo Pain, No Gain: Violence as Symbolic Capital in Malory’s Morte Darthur : Laurie A. Finke and Martin B. Schichtman (1998).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e8. Identity:.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCharacterisation in the Mystery Cycles: A Critical Prologue: David Mills (1983).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘In Arthurus Day’: Community, Virtue, and Individual Identity in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: David Aers (1988).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTroilus and Criseyde and Subjectivity: Lee Patterson (1991).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfterword.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eRoger Dalrymple\u003c\/b\u003e is Tutorial Fellow in English at St Hugh’s College, Oxford. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eLanguage and Piety in Middle English Romance\u003c\/i\u003e (2000) and Associate Editor of the journal \u003ci\u003eArthurian Literature\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003ci\u003eMiddle English Literature\u003c\/i\u003e is a student guide to the most influential critical writing on the subject.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe guide brings together a cross-section of key critical work, in order to demonstrate how different schools of thought have treated major interpretative concerns, including authorship, textual form, genre, and literature and history. Extracts from some of the major authorities in the field introduce readers to such diverse approaches as New Criticism, textual criticism, genre criticism, historicism, feminism, psychoanalysis, and queer theory. These extracts treat a wide range of texts, from ‘The Owl and the Nightingale’ and Chaucer’s ‘Canterbury Tales’, to Malory’s ‘Morte d’Arthur’ and the Paston letters. Brief overviews from the editor place the pieces in context.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBy enabling readers to research the critical reception of key works, and to forge new connections between different approaches, this guide steers them through the rich critical terrain of Middle English studies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989625684197,"sku":"NP9780631232896","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780631232896.jpg?v=1761784860","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/middle-english-literature-isbn-9780631232896","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}