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Invention and authorship in medieval England / Robert R. Edwards.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Edwards, Robert, 1947- author.
- Series:
- Interventions: New Studies in Medieval Culture Series
- Interventions: New Studies Medieval Cult
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Authorship--History--To 1500.
- Authorship.
- Authors, Medieval.
- Invention (Rhetoric)--History--To 1500.
- Invention (Rhetoric).
- Literature, Medieval--History and criticism.
- Literature, Medieval.
- English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (123 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Columbus, [Ohio] : The Ohio State University Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- From the twelfth century onwards, medieval English writers adapted the conventions of high literary culture to establish themselves as recognized authors and claim a significant place for works of imagination beside those of doctrine and instruction.
- Contents:
- Prelude: Bede and the denial of authorship
- Walter Map: authorship and counter-authorship
- Marie de France: signature and invention
- John Gower: scriptor, compositor, auctor
- Geoffrey Chaucer: imitation and refusal
- Simulating authorship: Thomas Hoccleve and John Lydgate
- Thomas Hoccleve: "sum of the doctrine"
- John Lydgate and the "stile counterfet"
- Afterword: The afterlife of medieval authorship.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8142-7508-7
- OCLC:
- 990778072
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