Christopher Cannon

From Literacy to Literature

England, 1300-1400

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Produktbeschreibung

From Literacy to Literature: England, 1300-1400 is a cultural history that draws a line between canonical Ricardian writers and the school-books of their time.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 140mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780192856357
• ISBN-10: 0192856359
• Artikelnr.: 62080387

Autorenporträt

Christopher Cannon was educated at Harvard, and has taught at UCLA, Oxford, Cambridge, NYU, and now at Johns Hopkins University. He has written books on the traditional nature of Chaucer's language, early Middle English and literary form, as well as a cultural history of Middle English. He has held several fellowships from the UK's Arts and Humanities Research Council, a Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, and he recently won the William Riley Parker Prize from the MLA. He is the author of From Literacy to Literature (Oxford University Press, 2016), Middle English Literature: A Cultural History (2008), The Grounds of English Literature (2004), and The Making of Chaucer's English: A Study of Words (1998).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: The Language of Learning
2: The Ad Hoc Schoolroom
3: The Basic Grammars and the Grammar-School Style
4: Grammaticalization and Literary Form
5: The Basic Reading Texts and Literary Work
6: Equipment for Living
7: The Experience of Learning