Overview

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. It is a tribute to the breadth and significance of his scholarship that the twelve essays gathered in his honour move beyond his own methods and interests to engage variously with ""textuality as such,"" presenting a substantial and expansive view of current thinking on form in late medieval literary studies. Covering a range of topics, including the meaning of words, ""experientiality"", poetic form and its cultural contexts, revisions, rereadings, subjectivity, formalism and historicism, failures of form, the dit, problems of editing lyrics, and collective subjectivity in lyric, they offer a spectrum of the best sort of work blossoming forth from close reading of the kind Spearing was such an early advocate for,continues to press, and which is now so central to medieval studies. Authors and works addressed include Chaucer (The Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde, The Legend of Good Women, ""Adam Scriveyn"", ""To Rosemounde"", ""TheComplaint Unto Pity""), Langland (Piers Plowman), the Gawain-poet (Cleanness), Charles d'Orleans, Gower (Confessio Amantis), and anonymous lyrics. Cristina Maria Cervone teaches English literature and medieval studies at the University of Memphis; D. Vance Smith is Professor of English at Princeton University. Contributors: Derek Pearsall, Elizabeth Fowler, Claire M. Waters, Kevin Gustafson, Michael Calabrese, David Aers, Nicolette Zeeman, Jill Mann, D. Vance Smith, J.A. Burrow, Ardis Butterfield, Cristina Maria Cervone, Peter Baker.

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Author:   Cristina Maria Cervone (Author) ,  D. Vance Smith (Author) ,  Ardis Butterfield (Customer) ,  Claire M Waters (Contributor)
Publisher:   Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Imprint:   D.S. Brewer
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.001kg
ISBN:  

9781843844464

ISBN 10:   184384446
Pages:   285
Publication Date:   20 October 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"A. C. Spearing's Work and Influence - Cristina Maria Cervone and D. Vance Smith Bibliography of A. C. Spearing's Work - Peter S. Baker The Wife of Bath's ""Experience"": Some Lexicographical Reflections - Derek Pearsall The Proximity of the Virtual: A. C. Spearing's Experientiality [or, Roaming with Palamon and Arcite] - Elizabeth Fowler Makyng and Middles in Chaucer's Poetry - Claire M. Waters Fayre Formez: Vernacular Scriptural Paraphrase and Lay Reading in Cleanness - Kevin Gustafson Langland's Last Words - Michael A Calabrese Re-reading Troilus in Response to Tony Spearing - David Aers The English Charles: Subjectivity, Texts and Culture - Nicolette Zeeman The Inescapability of Form - Jill Mann Destroyer of Forms: Chaucer's Philomela - D. Vance Smith Gower's Confessio Amantis and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales as Dits - John A. Burrow Poems without Form? Maiden in the mor lay Revisited - Ardis Butterfield ""I"" and ""We"" in Chaucer's Complaint Unto Pity - Cristina Maria Cervone Two Appreciations of A. C. Spearing - Peter S. Baker and Elizabeth Fowler Announcing a Literary Find Apparently Related to the Gawain-poet - Cristina Maria Cervone Works Cited"

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[Offers] fascinating insights not just into how we read in late medieval English liter-ary studies but also into how we learn to read in this field. JOURNAL OF ENGLISH AND GERMANIC PHILOLOGY

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The late Derek Pearsall was Emeritus Gurney Professor of Middle English Literature at Harvard University; he wrote extensively on Chaucer, Gower, Langland and Lydgate, including biographies of Chaucer and Lydgate, an edition of the C-text of Langland's Piers Plowman.

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