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Literary Theory and Criticism in the Later Middle Ages

Author : Ardis Butterfield
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108619495
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Literary Theory and Criticism in the Later Middle Ages written by Ardis Butterfield and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-03-31 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection makes a new, profound and far-reaching intervention into the rich yet little-explored terrain between Latin scholastic theory and vernacular literature. Written by a multidisciplinary team of leading international authors, the chapters honour and advance Alastair Minnis's field-defining scholarship. A wealth of expert essays refract the nuances of theory through the medium of authoritative Latin and vernacular medieval texts, providing fresh interpretative treatment to known canonical works while also bringing unknown materials to light.

Literary Theory and Criticism in the Later Middle Ages

Author : Ardis Butterfield
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781108716628
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (166 download)

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Download or read book Literary Theory and Criticism in the Later Middle Ages written by Ardis Butterfield and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Literary Theory and Criticism in the Later Middle Ages This collection makes a new, profound and far-reaching intervention into the rich yet little-explored terrain between Latin scholastic theory and vernacular literatures. Written by a multidisciplinary team of leading international authors, the chapters honour and advance Alastair Minnis' field-defining scholarship. A wealth of expert essays refract the nuances of theory through the medium of authoritative Latin and vernacular medieval texts, providing fresh interpretative treatment to known canonical works while also bringing unknown materials to light"--

English Literary Criticism

Author : J. W. H. Atkins
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000378799
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book English Literary Criticism written by J. W. H. Atkins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In England literary consciousness had its beginning in the middle ages, and this book, originally published in 1943, describes and illustrates the first phases of the growth of a tradition of criticism. It does not confine itself to writers whose interest was in the vernacular, for there was a larger European movement of which English criticism was a part. It embodied much of the ancient teaching, but it shows recurring efforts to arrive at the nature and art of poetry; it provides a key to contemporary literature and is of great help in understanding what really happened at the 16th Century Renaissance.

Literature as Recreation in the Later Middle Ages

Author : Glending Olson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501746758
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Literature as Recreation in the Later Middle Ages written by Glending Olson and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies attitudes toward secular literature during the later Middle Ages. Exploring two related medieval justifications of literary pleasure—one finding hygienic or therapeutic value in entertainment, and another stressing the psychological and ethical rewards of taking time out from work in order to refresh oneself—Glending Olson reveals that, contrary to much recent opinion, many medieval writers and thinkers accepted delight and enjoyment as valid goals of literature without always demanding moral profit as well. Drawing on a vast amount of primary material, including contemporary medical manuscripts and printed texts, Olson discusses theatrics, humanist literary criticism, prologues to romances and fabliaux, and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. He offers an extended examination of the framing story of Boccaccio's Decameron. Although intended principally as a contribution to the history of medieval literary theory and criticism, Literature as Recreation in the Later Middle Ages makes use of medical, psychological, and sociological insights that lead to a fuller understanding of late medieval secular culture.

Medieval Theory of Authorship

Author : Alastair J. Minnis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780704505926
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book Medieval Theory of Authorship written by Alastair J. Minnis and published by . This book was released on 1988-01 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When first published in 1984, Medieval Theory of Authorship was hailed as a milestone in the study of medieval literary criticism. As a reassessment of the significance of the scholastic contribution to hermeneutics, it argues forcefully, to quote one reviewer, 'for a repositioning of our historical perspective on late medieval textual theory'.It has often been held that scholasticism destroyed the literary theory which was emerging during the twelfth-century Renaissance, and hence discussion of late-medieval literary works has tended to derive its critical vocabulary from modern, not medieval, theory. The arts of preaching and poetry offer little about the principles and status of literature. 'Is it not better to search again', asks Dr Minnis, 'for a conceptual equipment which is at once historically valid and theoretically illuminating?'He finds such a range of writings in the glosses and commentaries on the authoritative Latin writers or auctores, studied in the schools and universities in the period 1100 to 1400. In particular, the prologues to these commentaries are valuable repositories of medieval theory of authorship, that is, literary theory centred on the crucial concepts of auctor and auctoritas. Of special significance is Scriptural exegesis, for medieval scholars found the Bible the most difficult text to describe accurately and adequately: as a consequence the literary theory in question received its most elaborate and sophisticated expression in the writings of theologians.Scholastic literary discourse had a wide influence, its idioms appearing in European vernacular works as well as in Medieval Latin literature. It influenced the attitudes which major writers - including Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Gower and Chaucer - had towards the moral value and stylistic significance of their writings, many aspects of which will have to be reconsidered in the light of this provocative book.

The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 2, The Middle Ages

Author : George Alexander Kennedy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 896 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 2, The Middle Ages written by George Alexander Kennedy and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first-ever history of the literary theory and criticism produced during the Middle Ages that covers all the main traditions in Latin, the major European vernaculars and Byzantine Greek. Starting with the study of grammar and the formal 'arts' of poetry, letter-writing and preaching, it proceeds to offer a full description of the Latin commentary tradition on classical and classicising literature, followed by explanations of medieval views on literary imagination and memory and the ways in which certain texts were believed to achieve moral profit through pleasure. Subsequent essays explore the diverse theoretical and critical traditions which developed in the vernacular languages, ranging from Medieval Irish to Old Norse, Occitan to Middle High German, concentrating particularly on Dante and his commentators and Italian humanist criticism. The volume concludes with an examination of the attitudes to literature and its uses in Greek Byzantium.

Medieval Theory of Authorship

Author : Alastair Minnis
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Medieval Theory of Authorship written by Alastair Minnis and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has often been held that scholasticism destroyed the literary theory that was emerging during the twelfth-century Renaissance, and hence discussion of late medieval literary works has tended to derive its critical vocabulary from modern, not medieval, theory. In Medieval Theory of Authorship, now reissued with a new preface by the author, Alastair Minnis asks, "Is it not better to search again for a conceptual equipment which is at once historically valid and theoretically illuminating?" Minnis has found such writings in the glosses and commentaries on the authoritative Latin writers studied in schools and universities between 1100 and 1400. The prologues to these commentaries provide valuable insight into the medieval theory of authorship. Of special significance is scriptural exegesis, for medieval scholars found the Bible the most difficult text to describe appropriately and accurately.

English Literary Criticism

Author : John William Hey Atkins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book English Literary Criticism written by John William Hey Atkins and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Literary Theory and Criticism in the Later Middle Ages

Author : Ardis Butterfield
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108492398
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Medieval Literature

Author : Holly Crocker
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000948269
Total Pages : 755 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Medieval Literature written by Holly Crocker and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 755 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medieval Literature: Criticism and Debates combines classic critical essays alongside new voices and approaches, highlighting vibrant debates on medieval literature that will continue to shape critical conversations for the coming decades. Holly A. Crocker and D. Vance Smith present a fascinating collection of essays from leading contemporary scholars of medieval literature and culture, examining topics including gender, sexuality, politics, belief, language, nationhood, science and desire. The volume sheds light on critical discussions of the medieval period and shows the continuing relevance and vivacity of Medieval English literature in the twenty-first century. Each section is thoroughly introduced and the essays develop various debates in key areas, providing a springboard for readers to establish their own study, arguments and opinions. Further reading sections make this volume an accessible and important resource for those studying literature from the Medieval period and beyond. Contributors: Anthony Bale, Sarah Beckwith, Anke Bernau, Glenn Burger, Ardis Butterfield, Christopher Cannon, Christine Chism, Lisa H. Cooper, Susan Crane, Holly A. Crocker, George Edmondson, Ruth Evans, Sylvia Federico, Laurie Finke, Aranye Fradenburg, Frank Grady, Richard Firth Green, Patricia Clare Ingham , Hannah Johnson, Steven Justice, David Lawton, Robert Mills, J. Allan Mitchell, Nicholas Perkins, Tison Pugh, Elizabeth Robertson, Kellie Robertson, Jessica Rosenfeld, Sarah Salih, Corinne Saunders, Martin Shichtman, D. Vance Smith, Emily Steiner, Jennifer Summit, Stephanie Trigg, Marion Turner, David Wallace, Angela Jane Weisl, Nicolette Zeeman

Practicing Literary Theory in the Middle Ages

Author : Eleanor Johnson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022601598X
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Practicing Literary Theory in the Middle Ages written by Eleanor Johnson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-05-11 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary scholars often avoid the category of the aesthetic in discussions of ethics, believing that purely aesthetic judgments can vitiate analyses of a literary work’s sociopolitical heft and meaning. In Practicing Literary Theory in the Middle Ages, Eleanor Johnson reveals that aesthetics—the formal aspects of literary language that make it sense-perceptible—are indeed inextricable from ethics in the writing of medieval literature. Johnson brings a keen formalist eye to bear on the prosimetric form: the mixing of prose with lyrical poetry. This form descends from the writings of the sixth-century Christian philosopher Boethius—specifically his famous prison text, Consolation of Philosophy—to the late medieval English tradition. Johnson argues that Boethius’s text had a broad influence not simply on the thematic and philosophical content of subsequent literary writing, but also on the specific aesthetic construction of several vernacular traditions. She demonstrates the underlying prosimetric structures in a variety of Middle English texts—including Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde and portions of the Canterbury Tales, Thomas Usk’s Testament of Love, John Gower’s Confessio amantis, and Thomas Hoccleve’s autobiographical poetry—and asks how particular formal choices work, how they resonate with medieval literary-theoretical ideas, and how particular poems and prose works mediate the tricky business of modeling ethical transformation for a readership.

The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 3, The Renaissance

Author : George Alexander Kennedy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521300087
Total Pages : 790 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 3, The Renaissance written by George Alexander Kennedy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1999 volume was the first to explore as part of an unbroken continuum the critical legacy both of the humanist rediscovery of ancient learning and of its neoclassical reformulation. Focused on what is arguably the most complex phase in the transmission of the Western literary-critical heritage, the book encompasses those issues that helped shape the way European writers thought about literature from the late Middle Ages to the late seventeenth century. These issues touched almost every facet of Western intellectual endeavour, as well as the historical, cultural, social, scientific, and technological contexts in which that activity evolved. From the interpretative reassessment of the major ancient poetic texts, this volume addresses the emergence of the literary critic in Europe by exploring poetics, prose fiction, contexts of criticism, neoclassicism, and national developments. Sixty-one chapters by internationally respected scholars are supported by an introduction, detailed bibliographies for further investigation and a full index.

Medieval Literary Theory and Criticism C.1100 - C.1375

Author : Alastair J. Minnis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Medieval Literary Theory and Criticism C.1100 - C.1375 written by Alastair J. Minnis and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology of texts in translation, here presented in a fully revised and updated form, covers the single most important branch of medieval literary theory and criticism, the commentary tradition, in one of the most significant periods of its development. The majority of the texts are heretranslated for the first time; most of the translations have been prepared specially for this edition. They offer discussion of such topics as fiction and fable (in classical poetry and in the Bible); the ethical effects and purpose of literature; authorship and authority; the function of biographyin literary interpretation; stylistic and didactic modes of writing; literary form and structure; allegory and literal-historical sense; symbolism; imagination and imagery; the semiotics of words and things, the moralization of classical texts; the status of poetry within the hierarchy of the humanarts and sciences; and the prestige and purpose of vernacular literature. The selections are fully annotated and provided with introductions which form a linked series of essays towards the history of medieval literary theory and criticism.

A Handbook of Middle English Studies

Author : Marion Turner
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118328760
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (183 download)

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Download or read book A Handbook of Middle English Studies written by Marion Turner and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-01-30 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Handbook of Middle English Studies “This sharp-minded, coherent set of essays both maps and liberates: not only does it map the intellectual territory of contemporary cultural debate; it also liberates the extraordinary texts of later medieval England to move across that contemporary cultural terrain.” James Simpson, Harvard University “Marion Turner has skilfully choreographed an exciting ensemble of fresh accounts of the English Middle Ages. We see the period in a new light that shows with compassion and imagination, as well as thoughtful scholarship, how the literature of the past speaks to contemporary preoccupations.” Ardis Butterfield, Yale University “Strikingly original: theory-literate and materially-grounded ways of reading Middle English texts.” David Wallace, University of Pennsylvania A Handbook of Middle English Studies presents twenty-six original and accessible essays by leading scholars, analyzing the relationship between critical theory and late-medieval literature. The collection offers a range of entry points into the rich field of medieval literary studies, exploring subjects including the depiction of the self and the mind, the literature of conquest, ideas of beauty and aesthetics, and the relationship between place and literature. Topics that have long been central to the field, such as authorship, gender, and race, feature alongside areas only recently coming under critical scrutiny, such as globalization, the environment, and animality. Collectively, the essays demonstrate that the manuscript culture of late medieval literature raises key theoretical issues concerning the relationship between authors, texts, and readers. A Handbook of Middle English Studies models diverse approaches to medieval texts and stakes a claim in debates about topics ranging from class to the canon, from imagination to nationhood, from sexuality to the public sphere.

The Post-Historical Middle Ages

Author : E. Scala
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230621554
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book The Post-Historical Middle Ages written by E. Scala and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-05-25 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of original essays repositions medieval literary studies after an era of historicism. Analyzing the legacy of Marxist and materialist theory on medieval literary criticism, the collection offers new ways of reading texts historically. Drawing upon aesthetic, ethical, and cultural vantage points and methods, these essays demonstrate that a variety of approaches and theories are "historical" and can change what it means to historicize medieval literature. By defining our post-historical moment in medieval English literary studies in terms of new possibilities, this collection will have broad appeal to those interested in the English Middle Ages, history, culture, and reading itself.

The friar as critic: literary attitudes in the Later Middle Ages

Author : Judson Boyce Allen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780783761947
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (619 download)

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Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800

Author : Thomas J. Schoenberg
Publisher : Literature Criticism from 1400
ISBN 13 : 9780787687236
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (872 download)

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Download or read book Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800 written by Thomas J. Schoenberg and published by Literature Criticism from 1400. This book was released on 2005 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents literary criticism on the works of writers of the period 1400-1800. Critical essays are selected from leading sources, including published journals, magazines, books, reviews, diaries, broadsheets, pamphlets, and scholarly papers. Criticism includes early views from the author's lifetime as well as later views, including extensive collections of contemporary analysis.