Readings in medieval textuality : essays in honour of A.C. Spearing /
Essays on a variety of topics in late medieval literature, linked by an engagement with form.The insight that "the implications of textuality as such" can and must underlie our interpretations of literary works remains one of A.C. Spearing's greatest contributions to medieval studies....
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| Other Authors / Creators: | Spearing, A. C., honouree. Cervone, Cristina Maria, editor. Smith, D. Vance, 1963- editor. |
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| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Melton : D.S. Brewer, 2016. |
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| Online Access: | Click here for full text at JSTOR |
Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- List of Contributors
- A. C. Spearing's Work and Influence
- Bibliography of A. C. Spearing's Works
- I Reading Experience and Experientiality
- 1 The Wife of Bath's "Experience": Some Lexicographical Reflections
- 2 The Proximity of the Virtual: A. C. Spearing's Experientiality (or, Roaming with Palamon and Arcite)
- 3 Makyng and Middles in Chaucer's Poetry
- II Revisions and Re-visioning of Alliterative Poetry
- 4 Fayre Formez: Vernacular Scriptural Paraphrase and Lay Reading in Cleanness
- 5 Langland's Last Words
- III Subjectivity and the Self
- 6 Re-reading Troilus in Response to Tony Spearing
- 7 The English Charles: Subjectivity, Texts and Culture
- IV Reading for Form
- 8 The Inescapability of Form
- 9 Destroyer of Forms: Chaucer's Philomela
- 10 Gower's Confessio Amantis and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales as Dits
- 11 Poems without Form? Maiden in the mor lay Revisited
- 12 "I" and "We" in Chaucer's Complaint unto Pity
- V Epilogue
- 13 Two Appreciations of A. C. Spearing
- 14 Announcing a Literary Find Apparently Related to the Gawain-poet
- Works Cited
- Index
- Tabula Gratulatoria