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Through a series of close readings of selected short poems and Lydgate's Troy Book, Fall of Princes, and Siege of Thebes and of Hoccleve's Regiments of Princes and Series, Smyth looks at expressions of time and examples of the authors' negotiation of time consciousness, illustrating how both poets manipulate a range of cultural narratives of time in order to create multiple and sometimes competing temporalities within a single poem.
Time in literature. --- Lydgate, John, --- Hoccleve, Thomas, --- Occleve, Thomas, --- Hoccleue, Thomas, --- Lidgate, John --- Lydgate, John --- Lidgate, Iohn --- Monk of Bury --- Monke of Burie --- Monk of Bery --- Criticism and interpretation.
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Thomas Hoccleve, Margery Kempe, John Audelay and Charles d'Orleans present themselves as the makers not only of their texts, but also of the books that transmitted their writing. This new study argues that they elaborated a "self-publishing pose" with the aim of regaining their audiences' confidence in the face of the compromised social, physical and material conditions they inhabited. Dr Critten shows that while the strategies of self-presentation that these authors develop draw on trends in contemporary literature and book history (such as the proliferation of the "go, litel bok" motif and the increasing popularity of the single-author codex), their approach to writing differs fundamentally from that pursued by their immediate predecessors, Chaucer and Gower, and by their most prominent peer, Lydgate. Rather, in their unusual insistence on their co-identity with their manuscripts, they demonstrate a new awareness of the socially instrumental potential of Middle English writing.
Literature, Medieval --- 091 --- 091 <41> --- 091 "14/15" --- 091 "14/15" Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Renaissance --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Renaissance --- 091 <41> Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- History and criticism --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Engels --- Old English literature --- Manuscripts. Epigraphy. Paleography --- English literature --- Rhetoric, Medieval. --- Manuscripts, English (Middle) --- Authorship --- History and criticism. --- History. --- History --- Hoccleve, Thomas, --- Audelay, John, --- Kempe, Margery, --- Charles, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Authoring (Authorship) --- Writing (Authorship) --- Literature --- English manuscripts (Middle) --- Manuscripts, Middle English --- Middle English manuscripts --- Charles d'Orléans, --- D'Orléans, Charles, --- Orléans, Charles d', --- Kempe, Margery --- Burnham, Margery, --- Kempe, Margerie, --- Kempe, Margery Burnham, --- Kempe, Marjorie, --- Awdlay, John, --- Occleve, Thomas, --- Hoccleue, Thomas, --- Authorship. --- Chaucer. --- English Literature. --- Gower. --- Late Medieval. --- Lydgate. --- Manuscript Book. --- Middle English Writing. --- Self-Publishing.
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Literary scholars often avoid the category of the aesthetic in discussions of ethics, believing that purely aesthetic judgments can vitiate analyses of a literary work's sociopolitical heft and meaning. In Practicing Literary Theory in the Middle Ages, Eleanor Johnson reveals that aesthetics-the formal aspects of literary language that make it sense-perceptible-are indeed inextricable from ethics in the writing of medieval literature. Johnson brings a keen formalist eye to bear on the prosimetric form: the mixing of prose with lyrical poetry. This form descends from the writings of the sixth-century Christian philosopher Boethius-specifically his famous prison text, Consolation of Philosophy-to the late medieval English tradition. Johnson argues that Boethius's text had a broad influence not simply on the thematic and philosophical content of subsequent literary writing, but also on the specific aesthetic construction of several vernacular traditions. She demonstrates the underlying prosimetric structures in a variety of Middle English texts-including Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde and portions of the Canterbury Tales, Thomas Usk's Testament of Love, John Gower's Confessio amantis, and Thomas Hoccleve's autobiographical poetry-and asks how particular formal choices work, how they resonate with medieval literary-theoretical ideas, and how particular poems and prose works mediate the tricky business of modeling ethical transformation for a readership.
English literature --- Ethics, Medieval, in literature. --- Literature, Medieval --- History and criticism. --- Boethius, --- Chaucer, Geoffrey, --- Gower, John, --- Hoccleve, Thomas, --- Usk, Thomas, --- Occleve, Thomas, --- Hoccleue, Thomas, --- Chaucer, Jeffrey, --- Chʻiao-sou, Chieh-fu-lei, --- Chieh-fu-lei Chʻiao-sou, --- Choser, Dzheffri, --- Choser, Zheoffreĭ, --- Cosvr, Jvoffrvi, --- Tishūsar, Zhiyūfrī, --- Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus --- Boetius, Manlius --- Boezio, Anicio Manlio Severino --- Boèce --- Boèce, --- Boeces, --- Boeci, --- Boeci, Anici Manli Severí, --- Boecio, --- Boecio, A. M. S., --- Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus, --- Boethus, Severinus, --- Boetius, --- Boetius, Annitius Manlius Severinus, --- Boetius, Auitius Maulius Torquatus Severinus, --- Boetius, Auitius Torquatus Severinus, --- Boėt︠s︡iĭ, --- Boėt︠s︡iĭ, Severin, --- Boezio, --- Boezio, Anicio Manlio Severino, --- Boezio Seuerino, --- Boezio, Seuerino, --- Boezio Severino, --- Boezio, Severino, --- Boʹisi, --- Severin Boėt︠s︡iĭ, --- Severinus Boethus, --- hoccleve, usk, gower, chaucer, middle ages, aesthetics, ethics, medieval literature, prosimetric form, prose, lyrical poetry, boethius, consolation of philosophy, confessio amantis, testament love, canterbury tales, troilus and criseyde, protrepsis, prosimetrum, meter, boece, nonfiction, martianus capella, poetics, transformation, audience, readers.
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