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Author:   Michael Foster
Publisher:   Verlag Peter Lang
Imprint:   Verlag Peter Lang
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 22.00cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 15.00cm
Weight:   0.290kg
ISBN:  

9783039111213

ISBN 10:   3039111213
Pages:   196
Publication Date:   03 September 2008
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Contents: Geoffrey Chaucer - Late fourteenth century literature - Orality as a mode of transmitting texts in Middle English literature - The narrator - Rhetorical constructions of the self - The narrator as a persona - Medieval ways of reading texts - Performance of the self - Constructing identities through texts - Identifying audiences in the Middle Ages - Identifying contemporary audiences of historical texts - Rhetorical topoi in literature - Textual transmission in the late fourteenth century - Creating identities in Middle English literature - Defining the relationship between author, narrator, and audience - The idea of the author in Middle English literature - Ricardian social history and literature - Works discussed: The Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde, The Book of the Duchess, The House of Fame, The Legend of Good Women, The Parliament of Fowls, The Pearl-Poet, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Piers Plowman, William Langland.

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The Author: Michael Foster is currently a postgraduate teaching fellow at the University of Nottingham, where he is conducting research on the manuscript transmission of the Middle English romances. He has published on Chaucer, rhetoric, and narrative.

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