Theory and the premodern text / Paul Strohm.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Strohm, Paul, 1938-

Series:

Medieval cultures ; v. 26.

Medieval cultures ; v. 26

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

English literature.

Literature and history--England--History--To 1500.

Literature and history.

Literature and history--England--History--16th century.

Historical drama, English--History and criticism.

Historical drama, English.

Civilization, Medieval, in literature.

Kings and rulers in literature.

Rhetoric, Medieval.

London (England)--In literature.

London (England).

Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400--Criticism and interpretation.

Chaucer, Geoffrey.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--History.

Shakespeare, William.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Insisting on the imaginative multiplicity of the text, Strohm finds in theory an augmentation of interpretive possibilities-an augmentation that sometimes requires respectful disagreement with what a work says-or seems to want known-about itself. Coupled with this strategic disrespect is a new and amplified form of respect-for the text as a meaning-making system, for its unruly power and its unpredictable effects in the world.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I: SPACE, SYMBOLIZATION, AND SOCIAL PRACTICE; 1. Three London Itineraries: Aesthetic Purity and the Composing Process; 2. Walking Fire: Symbolization, Action, and Lollard Burning; 3. Coronation as Legible Practice; PART II: TIME AND NARRATIVE; 4. "Lad with Revel to Newegate": Chaucerian Narrative and Historical Metanarrative; 5. Fictions of Time and Origin: Friar Huberd and the Lepers; 6. Chaucer's Troilus as Temporal Archive; PART III: READING THE HISTORICAL TEXT; 7. Prohibiting History: Capgrave and the Death of Richard II

8. Trade, Treason, and the Murder of Janus Imperial9. Shakespeare's Oldcastle: Another Ill-Framed Knight; 10. Postmodernism and History; PART IV: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND MEDIEVAL STUDIES; 11. What Can We Know about Chaucer That He Didn't Know about Himself?; 12. John's Locked Box: Kingship and the Management of Desire; 13. Mellyagant's Primal Scene; Notes; Indexes; Protagonists, Events, and Selected Medieval Texts; Commentators, Theorists, and Selected Texts; Theoretical Concepts

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

0-8166-9265-3

OCLC:

191934116