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Acts of recognition : essays on medieval culture / Lee Patterson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Patterson.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
- English literature.
- Literature and society--England--History--To 1500.
- Literature and society.
- Historical criticism (Literature).
- England--Civilization--1066-1485.
- England.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (369 p.)
- Edition:
- 1版.
- Place of Publication:
- Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Acts of Recognition examines the moral significance and conversations between the past and the present and the individual and the social in medieval literature.
- Contents:
- Historical criticism and the development of Chaucer studies
- The disenchanted classroom
- Court poetry and the invention of literature: the example of Sir John Clanvowe
- "What is me?": Hoccleve and the trials of the urban self
- Beinecke MS 493 and the survival of Hoccleve's Series
- Making identities in fifteenth-century England: Henry V and John Lydgate
- The heroic laconic style: reticence and meaning from Beowulf to the Edwardians
- Writing amorous wrongs: Chaucer and the order of complaint
- Genre and source in Troilus and Criseyde
- "Rapt with pleasaunce": the gaze from Virgil to Milton
- Brother Fire and St. Francis's drawers: human nature and the natural world.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780268089795
- 0268089795
- OCLC:
- 694144516
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