Sleep and its spaces in Middle 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 Sleep and its spaces in Middle English literature write by Megan G. Leitch. This book was released on 2021-07-06. Sleep and its spaces in Middle English literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Middle English literature is intimately concerned with sleep and the spaces in which it takes place. In the medieval English imagination, sleep is an embodied and culturally determined act. It is both performed and interpreted by characters and contemporaries, subject to a particular habitus and understood through particular hermeneutic lenses. While illuminating the intersecting medical and moral discourses by which it is shaped, sleep also sheds light on subjects in favour of which it has hitherto been overlooked: what sleep can enable (dreams and dream poetry) or what it can stand in for or supersede (desire and sex). This book argues that sleep mediates thematic concerns and questions in ways that have ethical, affective and oneiric implications. At the same time, it offers important contributions to understanding different Middle English genres: romance, dream vision, drama and fabliau.
Sleep and Its Spaces in Middle English Literature
Sleep and Its Spaces in Middle 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 Sleep and Its Spaces in Middle English Literature write by Megan Leitch. This book was released on 2023-03-07. Sleep and Its Spaces in Middle English Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book shows how sleep and the spaces in which it takes place animate ethical codes and emotive scripts, shaping a range of medieval English genres. In particular, it demonstrates the significance of sleep-related motifs to Middle English romance and offers a more embodied understanding of dream visions by Chaucer, Langland and the Pearl-poet.
The church as sacred space in Middle English literature and culture
The church as sacred space in Middle English literature and culture - 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 church as sacred space in Middle English literature and culture write by Laura Varnam. This book was released on 2018-01-11. The church as sacred space in Middle English literature and culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book presents an exciting new approach to the medieval church by examining the role of literary texts, visual decorations, ritual performance and lived experience in the production of sanctity. The meaning of the church was intensely debated in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. This book explores what was at stake not only for the church’s sanctity but for the identity of the parish community as a result. Focusing on pastoral material used to teach the laity, it shows how the church’s status as a sacred space at the heart of the congregation was dangerously – but profitably – dependent on lay practice. The sacred and profane were inextricably linked and, paradoxically, the church is shown to thrive on the sacrilegious challenge of lay misbehaviour and sin.
Approaches to emotion in Middle English literature
Approaches to emotion in Middle 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 Approaches to emotion in Middle English literature write by Carolyne Larrington. This book was released on 2024-04-16. Approaches to emotion in Middle English literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Over the last twenty-five years, the ‘history of emotion’ field has become one of the most dynamic and productive areas for humanities research. This designation, and the marked leadership of historians in the field, has had the unlooked-for consequence of sidelining literature — in particular secular literature — as evidence-source and object of emotion study. Secular literature, whether fable, novel, fantasy or romance, has been understood as prone to exaggeration, hyperbole, and thus as an unreliable indicator of the emotions of the past. The aim of this book is to decentre history of emotion research and asks new questions, ones that can be answered by literary scholars, using literary texts as sources: how do literary texts understand and depict emotion and, crucially, how do they generate emotion in their audiences — those who read them or hear them read or performed?
White before whiteness in the late Middle Ages
White before whiteness in the late Middle Ages - 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 White before whiteness in the late Middle Ages write by Wan-Chuan Kao. This book was released on 2024-01-09. White before whiteness in the late Middle Ages available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This groundbreaking book analyses premodern whiteness as operations of fragility, precarity and racialicity across bodily and nonsomatic figurations. It argues that while whiteness participates in the history of racialisation in the late medieval West, it does not denote skin tone alone. The ‘before’ of whiteness, presupposing essence and teleology, is less a retro-futuristic temporisation – one that simultaneously looks backward and faces forward – than a discursive figuration of how white becomes whiteness. Fragility delineates the limits of ruling ideologies in performances of mourning as self-defence against perceived threats to subjectivity and desire; precarity registers the ruptures within normative values by foregrounding the unmarked vulnerability of the body politic and the violence of cultural aestheticisation; and racialicity attends to the politics of recognition and the technologies of enfleshment at the systemic edge of life and nonlife.
