The Medieval Literary: Beyond Form (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Meyer-Lee, Robert J; Sanok, Catherine

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Produktbeschreibung

Essays studying the relationship between literariness and form in medieval texts.

The twenty-first century has witnessed the re-emergence of various kinds of literary formalism, and one project that characterizes most of these diverse formalisms is the effort to distinguish what is precisely literary about their objects of study. The presumed relation between form and the literary that this project presupposes, however, raises questions that still need to be addressed. What is it about form that produces the category of the literary? What precisely is literary about literary form? Can the literary be defined beyond form?
This volume explores these questions in the historical and geographical frame of late medieval Britain, across vaunted literary works such as the Franklin's Tale, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and the Towneley Shepherds' Plays, and presumed "non-literary" texts, such as books of hours. By studying texts from a period long priorto literary formalism - indeed, before any fully articulated theory of the literary - the essays gathered here aim to rethink the relationship between form and the literary.

Robert J. Meyer-Lee is Margaret W. PepperdeneDistinguished Scholar-in-Residence at Agnes Scott College; Catherine Sanok is an Associate Professor of English and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan.

Contributors: Anke Bernau, Jessica Brantley, Seeta Chaganti, Shannon Gayk, Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, Andrew Klein, Robert J. Meyer-Lee, Ingrid Nelson, Maura Nolan, Sarah Elliott Novacich, Catherine Sanok, Emily Steiner, Claire M. Waters.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Abingdon Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781787442191
• Artikelnr.: 63205533

Autorenporträt

Robert J. Meyer-Lee, Catherine Sanok

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Literary through
or beyond?
Form
Catherine Sanok and Robert J Meyer
Lee What's the Use? Marian Miracles and the Workings of the Literary
Claire M. Waters Form's Practice: Lyrics, Grammars, and the Medieval Idea of the Literary
Ingrid Nelson Forms of the Hours in Late Medieval England
Jessica Brantley Rhymed Alliterative Verse in Mise en page Transition: Two Case Studies in English Poetic Hybridity
Andrew Klein Rhymed Alliterative Verse in Mise en page Transition: Two Case Studies in English Poetic Hybridity
Kathryn Kerby
Fulton Idiot Psalms: Sound, Style, and the Performance of the Literary in the Towneley Shepherds' Plays
Shannon Gayk Inaudible Music
Sarah Elliott Novacich Translating Form with Patience
Anke Bernau Terpsichorean Form: Geoffrey Chaucer's Franklin's Tale and Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty
Seeta Chaganti Illusion and Aspect in the Construction of the Face: Chaucerian Individuals, Chaucerian Types
Maura Nolan Collecting, Violence, Literature: Richard of Bury's Philobiblon and the Forms of Literary History
Emily Steiner