Middle English Literature A Guide to Criticism [Paperback]

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• A student guide to the most influential critical writing on Middle English literature.
  
• Brings together extracts from some of the major authorities in the field.
  
• Introduces readers to different critical approaches to key Middle English texts.
  
• Treats a wide range of Middle English texts, including The Owl and the Nightingale, The Canterbury Tales and Morte d’Arthur.
  
• Organized around key critical concerns, such as authorship, genre, and textual form.
  
• Each critical concern can be used as the basis for one week’s work in a semester-long course.
  
• Enables readers to forge new connections between different approaches.

Preface.

Acknowledgements.

1. Authorship:.

John Lydgate: The Critical Approach: Derek Pearsall (1970).

Literary Theory and Literary Practice: Alastair Minnis.

Authority: Tim William Machan (1994).

2. Textual Form:.

The Hoole Book: Derek Brewer (1963).

Division and Failure in Gower’s Confessio Amantis: Hugh White (1988).

3. Genre:.

Middle English Narrative Genres: Paul Strohm (1980).

The Religious Tradition: Piero Boitani (1982).

4. Language, Style, Rhetoric:.

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