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Medieval autographies : the "I" of the text / A. C. Spearing.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Spearing, A. C.
- Series:
- Conway lectures in medieval studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- First person narrative.
- Autobiography in literature.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 347 p.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Spearing identifies and explores a previously unrecognized category of first-person medieval English poetry, calling it "autobiography.".
- Contents:
- Preface
- The textual first person
- Autography: prologues and dits
- Chaucerian prologues and The wife of Bath
- Why autography?
- Hoccleve and the prologue
- Hoccleve's series
- Bokenham's autographies
- Afterword.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780268158439
- 0268158436
- 9780268092801
- 026809280X
- OCLC:
- 830023841
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