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The Oxford handbook of medieval literature in English / edited by Elaine Treharne and Greg Walker with the assistance of William Green.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Oxford handbooks of literaturePublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.Description: xiii, 774 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780198798088
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 820.9001 23 TRE
Contents:
Part I. Literary production Part II. Literary Consumption Part III. Literature, Clerical and Lay Part IV. Literary Realities Part V. Complex Identities Part VI. Literary Place, Space, and Time Part VII. Literary Journeys
Summary: The study of medieval literature has experienced a revolution in the last two decades, which has reinvigorated many parts of the discipline and changed the shape of the subject in relation to the scholarship of the previous generation. 'New' texts (laws and penitentials, women's writing, drama records), innovative fields and objects of study (the history of the book, the study of space and the body, medieval masculinities), and original ways of studying them (the Sociology of the Text, performance studies) have emerged. This has brought fresh vigour and impetus to medieval studies, and impacted significantly on cognate periods and areas. The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English brings together the insights of these new fields and approaches with those of more familiar texts and methods of study, to provide a comprehensive overview of the state of medieval literature today. It also returns to first principles in posing fundamental questions about the nature, scope, and significance of the discipline, and the directions that it might take in the next decade
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Reference Books Reference Books CUTN Central Library Literature Fiction 820.9001 TRE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not For Loan 41672

Originally published: 2010.

Part I. Literary production Part II. Literary Consumption Part III. Literature, Clerical and Lay Part IV. Literary Realities Part V. Complex Identities Part VI. Literary Place, Space, and Time Part VII. Literary Journeys

The study of medieval literature has experienced a revolution in the last two decades, which has reinvigorated many parts of the discipline and changed the shape of the subject in relation to the scholarship of the previous generation. 'New' texts (laws and penitentials, women's writing, drama records), innovative fields and objects of study (the history of the book, the study of space and the body, medieval masculinities), and original ways of studying them (the Sociology of the Text, performance studies) have emerged. This has brought fresh vigour and impetus to medieval studies, and impacted significantly on cognate periods and areas. The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English brings together the insights of these new fields and approaches with those of more familiar texts and methods of study, to provide a comprehensive overview of the state of medieval literature today. It also returns to first principles in posing fundamental questions about the nature, scope, and significance of the discipline, and the directions that it might take in the next decade

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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