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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Will Rogers (Tommy and Mary Barham Endowed Professor of English, University of Louisiana, Monroe)Publisher: Arc Humanities Press Imprint: Arc Humanities Press Edition: New edition ISBN: 9781641892544ISBN 10: 1641892544 Pages: 164 Publication Date: 30 April 2021 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction: Staves and Stanzas Chapter 1: Crooked as a Staff: Narrative, History, and the Disabled Body in Parlement of Thre Ages Chapter 2: A Reckoning with Age: Prosthetic Violence and the Reeve Chapter 3: The Past is Prologue: Following the Trace of Master Hoccleve Chapter 4: Playing Prosthesis and Revising the Past: Gower's Supplemental Role Epilogue: Impotence and Textual HealingReviews[A] valuable contribution to the study of both premodern disability and aging, investigating the intersections among discourses on old age, narrative, and impairment. As Rogers observes, the Old Man, in Middle English literature, is almost never depicted without a staff, and most importantly, he is often a loquacious fellow, offering complaint and advice. While these connections between old age and narrative are not immediately surprising, Rogers’s subtle study reveals the insistent and repeated deployment of narrative by figures of masculine old age in order not only to acknowledge the debilities of aging, but also to harness elderly complaint as a prosthetic dis- course that compensates for seeming inability. -- Richard H. Godden * Speculum 98, no. 2 (April 2023): 642-44 * [A] valuable contribution to the study of both premodern disability and aging, investigating the intersections among discourses on old age, narrative, and impairment. As Rogers observes, the Old Man, in Middle English literature, is almost never depicted without a staff, and most importantly, he is often a loquacious fellow, offering complaint and advice. While these connections between old age and narrative are not immediately surprising, Rogers's subtle study reveals the insistent and repeated deployment of narrative by figures of masculine old age in order not only to acknowledge the debilities of aging, but also to harness elderly complaint as a prosthetic dis- course that compensates for seeming inability. -- Richard H. Godden * Speculum 98, no. 2 (April 2023): 642-44 * Author InformationWill Rogers received his PhD from Cornell University in 2014, where he concentrated on medieval studies and disability studies. He has published articles on Chaucer, Gower, and the early modern printings of Julian of Norwich's Revelations. He is the Tommy and Mary Barham Endowed Professor of English at University of Louisiana, Monroe. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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