Medieval literature 1300-1500 / Pamela M. King.

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King, Pamela M

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Edinburgh critical guides to literaturePublication details: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2011.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 242 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780748634613
0748634614
9786613133106
6613133108

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Medieval literature 1300-1500.DDC classification:

820.9001 22

LOC classification:

PR255 .K56 2011eb

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Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Contents; Series Preface; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Introduction; chapter 1 The Ideal World; chapter 2 Social Change; chapter 3 Religion and Morality; chapter 4 Complaint and Dissent; chapter 5 The Literary World; Conclusion; Student Resources; Index.

Summary: Medieval literature can be daunting. This critical guide is designed to help readers to relax in the company of diverting and entertaining voices from that 'other country' that is the past. Medieval Literature 1300-1500 offers close readings of Middle English texts placed within the culture with which they interact. Famous works, like The Canterbury Tales, are discussed alongside lesser-known poems, prose, and plays, in five thematically-organised chapters, accompanied by helpful critical apparatus. Reflecting the proliferation of user-friendly editions, many available on-line, this book extends the range of Middle English writing for which there is accessible up-to-date critical support, enabling the student, the general reader, the course designer, and the aspirant specialist, to read widely and with enjoyment in the medieval period. Key Features Offers succinct close-readings of well-known texts of the period Provides cultural-historical background to England in the Middle Ages Reflects on the construction of an English literary 'tradition' Cross-references literary texts against historical events and other art forms

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Includes bibliographical references an dindex.

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Medieval literature can be daunting. This critical guide is designed to help readers to relax in the company of diverting and entertaining voices from that 'other country' that is the past. Medieval Literature 1300-1500 offers close readings of Middle English texts placed within the culture with which they interact. Famous works, like The Canterbury Tales, are discussed alongside lesser-known poems, prose, and plays, in five thematically-organised chapters, accompanied by helpful critical apparatus. Reflecting the proliferation of user-friendly editions, many available on-line, this book extends the range of Middle English writing for which there is accessible up-to-date critical support, enabling the student, the general reader, the course designer, and the aspirant specialist, to read widely and with enjoyment in the medieval period. Key Features Offers succinct close-readings of well-known texts of the period Provides cultural-historical background to England in the Middle Ages Reflects on the construction of an English literary 'tradition' Cross-references literary texts against historical events and other art forms

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