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Author : David M. Zesmer
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book Guide to English Literature from Beowulf Through Chaucer and Medieval Drama written by David M. Zesmer and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael J. Marcuse
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520321871
Total Pages : 2816 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Download or read book A Reference Guide for English Studies written by Michael J. Marcuse and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 2816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Theodore M. Andersson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351948768
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Contradictions: From Beowulf to Chaucer written by Theodore M. Andersson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together a series of key essays by Larry D Benson, well-known for his work in editing the Riverside Chaucer. Of the studies selected, the opening three deal with Old English, recasting the possibilities for the critical study of Beowulf, above all the relation between oral and written literary production. The following ten essays turn to Middle English literature, with the focus first on Chaucer, and the evolution of his works and his language, then on the social and cultural context of medieval chivalric texts. Throughout, Professor Benson approaches his subjects with a skeptical intent, even a seeming contrariness in seeking to contradict received views, but in fact with the purpose of questioning in order to understand more deeply. Scattered in their original publications, and with one hitherto unpublished, together these studies present a powerful argument for this questioning approach to fundamental issues and constitute a major contribution to the study of the literary and cultural history of the medieval world. Larry D Benson is Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English, Harvard University.
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Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book St. James Reference Guide to English Literature: The beginnings and the Renaissance written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : D. L. Kirkpatrick
Publisher : Saint James Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 728 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Reference Guide to English Literature written by D. L. Kirkpatrick and published by Saint James Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concise discussions of the lives and principal works of writers from Britain, Ireland, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and English-speaking Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean. Written by subject experts.
Author : Laura C. Lambdin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136594256
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature written by Laura C. Lambdin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-03 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference is a comprehensive guide to literature written 500 to 1500 A.D., a period that gave rise to some of the world's most enduring and influential works, such as Dante's Commedia, Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, and a large body of Arthurian lore and legend. While its emphasis is upon medieval English texts and society, this reference also covers Islamic, Hispanic, Celtic, Mongolian, Germanic, Italian, and Russian literature and Middle Age culture. Longer entries provide thorough coverage of major English authors such as Chaucer and Sir Thomas Malory, and of genre entries, such as drama, lyric, ballad, debate, saga, chronicle, and hagiography. Shorter entries examine particular literary works; significant kings, artists, explorers, and religious leaders; important themes, such as courtly love and chivalry; and major historical events, such as the Crusades. Each entry concludes with a brief biography. The volume closes with a list of the most valuable general works for further reading.
Author : George Watson
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1296 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature written by George Watson and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1974 with total page 1296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ralph Maud
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809319954
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)
Download or read book Charles Olson's Reading written by Ralph Maud and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maud (English, Simon Fraser U.) offers a narrative account of the life and work of poet Charles Olson, focusing on the poet's lifelong reading material as a basis for understanding his work. Drawing on an annotated listing of his library, as well as his childhood books and poetry by his contemporaries, he links the books to the poet's intellectual and poetic development at each stage of his career. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : George Watson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521200042
Total Pages : 1322 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 ( download)
Download or read book The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 1, 600-1660 written by George Watson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1974-08-29 with total page 1322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than fifty specialists have contributed to this new edition of volume 1 of The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. The design of the original work has established itself so firmly as a workable solution to the immense problems of analysis, articulation and coordination that it has been retained in all its essentials for the new edition. The task of the new contributors has been to revise and integrate the lists of 1940 and 1957, to add materials of the following decade, to correct and refine the bibliographical details already available, and to re-shape the whole according to a new series of conventions devised to give greater clarity and consistency to the entries.
Author : John H. Pratt
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 9780761815884
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (158 download)
Download or read book Chaucer and War written by John H. Pratt and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2000 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Chaucer and War, John Pratt studies Chaucer's attitude toward the warfare of his age and how his major poetry reflects this attitude. Using biographical information, reliable fourteenth-century sources, and Chaucer's own writings, Pratt explores Chaucer's use of war through such works as the Knight's Tale, the Squire's Tale, and Troilus and Criseyde. Pratt gives an overview of the military picture during Chaucer's time, examines Chaucer's knowledge of military weapons and his use of this knowledge in his poetry, and evaluates the poetry based on references, word usage, and historical context among others. Pratt concludes that Chaucer, despite his English-Christian perspective, was a writer who knew a good deal about warfare on a global scale, and supported warfare when he felt the cause was just. A strikingly unique perspective from the current evaluations of Chaucer's work, Chaucer and War will be of value to students and scholars of Chaucer and medieval history and literature, as well as those with an interest in the Middle Ages.
Author : Inglis Freeman Bell
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book A Reference Guide to English, American and Canadian Literature written by Inglis Freeman Bell and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 1971 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ordelle G. Hill
Publisher : Susquehanna University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780945636427
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (364 download)
Download or read book The Manor, the Plowman, and the Shepherd written by Ordelle G. Hill and published by Susquehanna University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the early sixteenth century, the agrarian landscape changed to more pastoral land, more enclosures, and a decrease in (or a rearrangement of) manorial lands. Increased population and an abundance of labor created economic tensions that caused moralizers to cry out for reform, but there is no evidence pastoral lands decreased even by the end of the century. In literature, the plowman tradition continued to exist in such forms as the remarkable sermon by Bishop Latimer, but more often than not it was viewed nostalgically as part of the past, and used to address the problems brought about by the pastoral economy of the sixteenth century. The plowman can be identified even as late as Spenser's Faerie Queene where he assumes the moral associations of the fourteenth-century type, and in Sidney where the plowman becomes the unsympathetic buffoon.
Author : Rosemary Greentree
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 9780859916219
Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (162 download)
Download or read book The Middle English Lyric and Short Poem written by Rosemary Greentree and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2001 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Bibliography assembles annotation of collections and criticism of lyrics of religious and secular love, carols and songs, and rhymes of everyday life. The Middle English lyrics and short poems form a varied group that ranges over most aspects of life to include lyrics of religious and secular love, carols and songs, and mundane rhymes of everyday life. Thus there are expressionsof devotion, ethereal or earthly, theological expositions, and knowledge needed for life. The poems are disparate and generally anonymous, and their survival owes much to chance. The bibliography assembles neutral annotation of collections and criticism of the works, arranged chronologically to show the course of criticism and the growing appreciation of these poems and all they can tell us. The introduction considers these matters, problems of definitionof the genre, and the isolable lyrics, and seeks to reconcile some first impressions of the poems, as disparate and slight, with the rewards of close study. ROSEMARY GREENTREE is currently Visiting Research Fellow, Dept of English, University of Adelaide.
Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110434873
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Death in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times written by Albrecht Classen and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-04-11 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death is not only the final moment of life, it also casts a huge shadow on human society at large. People throughout time have had to cope with death as an existential experience, and this also, of course, in the premodern world. The contributors to the present volume examine the material and spiritual conditions of the culture of death, studying specific buildings and spaces, literary works and art objects, theatrical performances, and medical tracts from the early Middle Ages to the late eighteenth century. Death has always evoked fear, terror, and awe, it has puzzled and troubled people, forcing theologians and philosophers to respond and provide answers for questions that seem to evade real explanations. The more we learn about the culture of death, the more we can comprehend the culture of life. As this volume demonstrates, the approaches to death varied widely, also in the Middle Ages and the early modern age. This volume hence adds a significant number of new facets to the critical examination of this ever-present phenomenon of death, exploring poetic responses to the Black Death, types of execution of a female murderess, death as the springboard for major political changes, and death reflected in morality plays and art.
Author : William Harmon
Publisher : Prentice Hall
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 698 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Handbook to Literature written by William Harmon and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 2006 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thedefinitive,contemporary reference on literature and literary criticism in English, this handbook provides an alphabetical listing of more than 2,000 important terms and facts in literature, linguistics, rhetoric, criticism, printing, bookselling, and information technology.Covers a wide range of terms, most centered in literature, but extending into other areas, such as film, radio, TV, printing, linguistics and literary theory, music, graphic arts, classical studies, and computing and information science terms.For anyone interested in literature and literary criticism.
Author : George Kumler Anderson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400879612
Total Pages : 459 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The Literature of the Anglo-Saxons written by George Kumler Anderson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a one-volume descriptive history of English literature from the beginning to the Norman Conquest. Emphasis is literary rather than linguistic. Originally published in 1966. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Paul A. Doyle
Publisher : Halsted Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
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Download or read book Guide to Basic Information Sources in English Literature written by Paul A. Doyle and published by Halsted Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
