Acts of recognition : essays on medieval culture /

Acts of Recognition examines the moral significance and conversations between the past and the present and the individual and the social in medieval literature.

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator: Patterson, Lee
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Imprint: Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, ©2010.
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Table of Contents:
  • Historical criticism and the development of Chaucer studies
  • The disenchanted classroom
  • Court poetry and the invention of literature: the example of Sir John Clanvowe
  • "What is me?": Hoccleve and the trials of the urban self
  • Beinecke MS 493 and the survival of Hoccleve's Series
  • Making identities in fifteenth-century England: Henry V and John Lydgate
  • The heroic laconic style: reticence and meaning from Beowulf to the Edwardians
  • Writing amorous wrongs: Chaucer and the order of complaint
  • Genre and source in Troilus and Criseyde
  • "Rapt with pleasaunce": the gaze from Virgil to Milton
  • Brother Fire and St. Francis's drawers: human nature and the natural world.