Medieval Literary: Beyond Form
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A32=Andrew Klein
A32=Anke Bernau
A32=Catherine Sanok
A32=Claire M Waters
A32=Emily Steiner
A32=Ingrid Nelson
A32=Jessica Brantley
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Late Medieval Britain
Literariness
Literary Form
Literary Formalism
Literary Works
Medieval
Non-literary Texts
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- ISBN 9781843844891
- Weight: 624g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 18 May 2018
- Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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Essays studying the relationship between literariness and form in medieval texts.
The twenty-first century has witnessed the re-emergence of various kinds of literary formalism, and one project that characterizes most of these diverse formalisms is the effort to distinguish what is precisely literary about their objects of study. The presumed relation between form and the literary that this project presupposes, however, raises questions that still need to be addressed. What is it about form that produces the category of the literary? What precisely is literary about literary form? Can the literary be defined beyond form?
This volume explores these questions in the historical and geographical frame of late medieval Britain, across vaunted literary works such as the Franklin's Tale, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and the Towneley Shepherds' Plays, and presumed "non-literary" texts, such as books of hours. By studying texts from a period long priorto literary formalism - indeed, before any fully articulated theory of the literary - the essays gathered here aim to rethink the relationship between form and the literary.
Robert J. Meyer-Lee is Margaret W. PepperdeneDistinguished Scholar-in-Residence at Agnes Scott College; Catherine Sanok is an Associate Professor of English and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan.
Contributors: Anke Bernau, Jessica Brantley, Seeta Chaganti, Shannon Gayk, Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, Andrew Klein, Robert J. Meyer-Lee, Ingrid Nelson, Maura Nolan, Sarah Elliott Novacich, Catherine Sanok, Emily Steiner, Claire M. Waters.
CATHERINE SANOK is Professor of English and Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Michigan. CATHERINE SANOK is Professor of English and Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Michigan. KATHRYN KERBY-FULTON is Professor Emerita, University of Notre Dame.
