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The grounds of English literature / Christopher Cannon.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cannon, Christopher.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Romances, English--History and criticism.
- Romances, English.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 237 p. : ill., maps.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
- Summary:
- The centuries just after the Norman Conquest are the forgotten period of English Literary History. Yet the years 1066-1300 witnessed an unparalleled ingenuity in the creation of written forms. Using an innovative theory of literary form applied to a series of detailed readings of the more important early Middle English works, Cannon shows how the many and varied texts of the period laid the foundations for the project of English Literature.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Abbreviations
- A Note on Translations
- Introduction
- A Theory of Form
- The Grounds of English Literature
- 1. The Loss of Literature: 1066
- Historical Form
- The Lost Literature of England
- The Shape of the Literary Thing
- 2. The Law of the Land: Lazamon's Brut
- The Land as Warrant
- Immanent Law
- Conquest as Consolation
- 3. Right Writing: The Ormulum
- Spelling Practice
- Deconstruction
- Ut Pictura, Orthographia
- 4. The Meaning of Life: The Owl and the Nightingale
- The Living Thing
- The Truth about Women
- This Debate which is Not One
- 5. The Place of the Self: Ancrene Wisse and the Katherine-group
- The Place of AB Language
- Place Itself
- Anchorage
- 6. The Spirit of Romance: King Horn, Havelok the Dane, and Floris and Blancheflour
- Romance Form
- The Soul is the Prison of the Body
- The Grounding of a Thing in Air
- Works Cited
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- V
- W.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [210]-228) and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9786611345907
- 9780191533754
- 0191533750
- 9781429422024
- 1429422025
- 9781281345905
- 1281345903
- 9780199270828
- 0199270821
- OCLC:
- 476257816
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