Medieval poetics and social practice : responding to the work of Penn R. Szittya / edited by Seeta Chaganti.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chaganti, Seeta.

Szittya, Penn R., 1945-

Series:

Fordham series in medieval studies.

Fordham series in medieval studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chaganti, Seeta.

Szittya, Penn R., 1945-.

Szittya, Penn R.

English poetry--Middle English, 1100-1500--History and criticism.

English poetry.

Great Britain--Social life and customs--1066-1485.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This collection responds to the critical legacy of Penn R. Szittya, the recently retired former chair of Georgetown UniversityGs English Department. Inspired by GeorgetownGs Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice and its statement that poetry Gtraverses the fields of aesthetic, social, political, and religious thought,G this work investigates how medieval poetic language reflects and also shapes social, political, and religious worlds. At a moment in contemporary culture when poetry finds its value increasingly challenged, Medieval Poetics and Social Practice looks to the late Middle Ag

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; Visual Translation in Fifteenth- Century English Manuscripts; Barn of Unity or the Dev il's Church? Salvation and Ecclesiology in Langland and the Wycliffites; Christian Poetics and Orthodox Practice: Meaning and Implication in Six Carols by James Ryman, O.F.M.; Enabled and Disabled "Myndes" in The Prick of Conscience; The Idea of Public Poetry in Lydgatean Religious Verse: Authority and the Common Voice in Devotional Literature; Nature's Yerde and Ward: Authority and Choice in Chaucer's Parliament of Fowls

Fabulous Women, Fables of Patronage: Metham's Amoryus and Cleopes and BL MS Additional 10304Dowel, the Proverbial, and the Vernacular: Some Versions of Pastoralia; Published Works by Penn R. Szittya; Penn R. Szittya as Scholar and Teacher; The Desire to Write Things Down: A Poetic Palimpsest on Certain Remarks by Penn Szittya; Notes; Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780823243273

0823243273

9780823243280

0823243281

9780823246236

082324623X

OCLC:

923763556

Publisher Number:

2027/heb33416 hdl