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The essays make some texts available for the first time in print, and examine the roles of historical scholars in the construction of medieval English literature and textual cultures. The chapters consider the writings of major authors such as Chaucer, Gower and Wyclif in relation to texts, authors and ideals less well-known today, and in light of the translation and interpretive reproduction of the Bible in Middle English. In order to better understand the human agency, creativity and forms of sanctity of medieval England, these essays investigate both the production of medieval texts and the people whose hands and minds created, altered and/or published them. This collection of essays explores the literary legacy of medieval England by examining the writers, editors and exemplars of medieval English texts. Writers Editors and Exemplars in Medieval English Texts Excerpt : Writers Editors and Exemplars in Medieval English Texts

Incorporating critical approaches such as deconstructionism, Marxism, feminism, new-historicism and reader-response criticism, the essays place these writers and their texts within a wider realm of cultural reference that embraces philosophy, religion, rhetoric, history, politics, and anthropology. The contributors apply a variety of critical methodologies to explore issues in textuality, intertextuality, and the role of the reader in works of medieval writers as diverse as Chaucer, Dante, Christine de Pizan, Anselm, and Talavera. Taken together, the essays call into question the view that contemporary criticism has little to say about medieval literature and that medieval studies should remain isolated from the issues of contemporary criticism. This collection brings together twelve original essays by prominent medievalists which address problems posed by contemporary literary and cultural theory. Urn:isbn:0205130658 Republisher_date 20160813161738 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 782 Scandate 20160813074022 Scanner Texts and Contemporary Readers Excerpt :

OL17652098W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 95.59 Pages 614 Ppi 300 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0205290531 Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 20:25:31.393135 Boxid IA1144215 City Boston Donorīostonpubliclibrary Edition 2nd ed.