Socioliterary Practice in Late Medieval England

Name: Socioliterary Practice in Late Medieval England
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ISBN: 9780198112426

ISBN-10: 0198112424

ISBN-13: 9780198112426

Edition: 2002

Authors: Helen Barr

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Socioliterary Practice in Late Medieval England bridges the disciplines of literature and history by examining various kinds of literary language as examples of social practice. Readings of both English and Latin texts from the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries are grounded in close textual study which reveals the social positioning of these works and the kinds of ideological work they can be seen to perform. Distinctive new readings of texts emerge which challenge received interpretations of literary history and late medieval culture. Canonical authors and texts such as Chaucer, Gower, and Pearl are discussed alongside the less familiar: Clanvowe, anonymous alliterative verse,…

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List price: $130.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/7/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 238
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Abbreviations


Introduction: Socioliterary practice



Constructing social realities: Wynnere and Wastoure, Hoccleve and Chaucer



Pearl - or the jeweller's tale



Unfixing the signs of kingship: Gower's Cronica Tripertita and Richard the Redeless



The regal image of Richard II and the Prologue to the Legend of Good Women



'From pig to man and man to pig': the 1381 uprisings in Chaucer's The Nun's Priest's Tale



'Blessed are the horny hands of toil': Wycliffite representations of the third estate



Coded birds and bees: unscrambling Mum and the Sothsegger and The Boke of Cupide


Afterword: 'Adieu Sir Churl: Lydgate's The Churl and the Bird


Works Cited


Index