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Middle English Literature: A Guide to Criticism

By Roger Dalrymple

Book information

Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Year
2004
ISBN
9780631232896, 0631232893
LCC
PR255 .M5 2004
Open Library ID
OL3680982M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1567891 bytes)
Series
Blackwell Guides to Criticism
Pages
284\284
Library
avaxhome.ws
Time added
2010-05-31 15:29:46

Description

The guide brings together a cross-section of key critical work, in order to demonstrate how different schools of thought have treated major interpretative concerns, including authorship, textual form, genre, and literature and history. Extracts from some of the major authorities in the field introduce readers to such diverse approaches as New Criticism, textual criticism, genre criticism, historicism, feminism, psychoanalysis, and queer theory. These extracts treat a wide range of texts, from ‘The Owl and the Nightingale’ and Chaucer’s ‘Canterbury Tales’, to Malory’s ‘Morte d’Arthur’ and the Paston letters. Brief overviews from the editor place the pieces in context. By enabling readers to research the critical reception of key works, and to forge new connections between different approaches, this guide steers them through the rich critical terrain of Middle English studies.

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