Images of Language in Middle English Vernacular Writings - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Images of Language in Middle English Vernacular Writings write by Kathy Cawsey. This book was released on 2020. Images of Language in Middle English Vernacular Writings available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An exploration of the use of images in Middle English texts, tracing out what can be deduced of a theory of language.
Laughter and Awkwardness in Late Medieval England
Laughter and Awkwardness in Late Medieval England - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Laughter and Awkwardness in Late Medieval England write by David Watt. This book was released on 2023-08-24. Laughter and Awkwardness in Late Medieval England available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'We live,' according to Adam Kotsko, 'in an awkward age.' While this condition may present some challenges, it may also help us to be more attuned to awkwardness in other ages. This book pairs medieval texts with twenty-first century films or television programmes to explore what the resonance between them can tell us about living together in an awkward age. In this nuanced and engaging study, David Watt focuses especially, but not exclusively, on the 15th century, which seems to intervene awkwardly in the literary trajectory between Chaucer and the Renaissance. This book's hypothesis is that the social discomfort depicted and engendered by writers as diverse as Thomas Hoccleve, Margery Kempe, and Sir Thomas Malory is a feature rather than a flaw. Laughter and Awkwardness in Late Medieval England explains that these authors have a great deal in common with other fifteenth-century authors, who generated embodied experiences of social discomfort in a range of genres by adopting and adapting literary techniques used by their predecessors and successors in slightly different ways. Like the twenty-first century texts with which they are paired, the late-medieval texts that feature in this book use the relationship between laughter and awkwardness to ask what it means to live with each other and how we can learn to live with ourselves.
Translations of Authority in Medieval English Literature
Translations of Authority in Medieval English Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Translations of Authority in Medieval English Literature write by Alastair Minnis. This book was released on 2009-03-19. Translations of Authority in Medieval English Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Minnis presents the fruits of a long-term engagement with the ways in which crucial ideological issues were deployed in vernacular texts. He addresses the crisis for vernacular translation precipitated by the Lollard heresy, Langland's views on indulgences, Chaucer's tales of suspicious saints and risible relics, and more.
The Broadview Anthology of Medieval Arthurian Literature
The Broadview Anthology of Medieval Arthurian Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Broadview Anthology of Medieval Arthurian Literature write by Kathy Cawsey. This book was released on 2023-10-11. The Broadview Anthology of Medieval Arthurian Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This teaching anthology collects texts from the vast archive of medieval Arthurian literature. It includes selections from mainstream canonical authors, such as Geoffrey of Monmouth and Malory, and more peripheral works, such as the Melech Artus (a 12th-century Hebrew text) and the Dutch Morien (featuring a black knight). Characters and authors showcase the diversity of race, religion, gender, and gender orientation of the Arthurian tradition. The anthology and its accompanying website offer a variety of genres, ranging from visual art to historical chronicles and from romance to drama. Arthurian works, while concentrated in England, France, and Wales, are found across medieval Europe, and thus this anthology includes texts from Iceland to Greece. The Broadview Anthology of Medieval Arthurian Literature is ideally suited to teaching: it includes full texts, such as Chrétien de Troyes’ Knight of the Cart, Chaucer’s Wife of Bath’s Tale, and the anonymous Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, for classes that wish to study a whole work in depth; it also includes shorter excerpts of parallel incidents, such as the Uther and Igraine story, so that students can compare a story’s treatment by different authors. Marginal glosses assist students with the Middle English texts, while introductory notes and explanatory footnotes give students necessary background information.
Medieval Poetics and Social Practice
Medieval Poetics and Social Practice - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Medieval Poetics and Social Practice write by Seeta Chaganti. This book was released on 2012. Medieval Poetics and Social Practice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection responds to the critical legacy of Penn R. Szittya. Its contributors investigate how medieval poetic language reflects and shapes social, political, and religious worlds. In addition to new readings of canonical poetic texts, it includes readings of texts that have previously not held a central place in critical attention.
