Authorising history : gestures of authorship in fourteenth-century English historiography / by Nicole Nyffenegger.

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Nyffenegger, Nicole

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Summary language: English, Middle (1100-1500) Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013Description: 1 online resource (xi, 218 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781443868419
1443868418
1322180539
9781322180533

Other title:

Authorizing history

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Authorising historyDDC classification:

941/.0072 23

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PR317.H56 N94 2013eb

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Contents:

Introduction -- The task of writing history -- History : the subject matter -- Empowering written texts -- Negotiating authority -- Inscribing authority -- Conclusion.

Summary: ""This book discusses the strategies and rhetorical means by which four authors of Middle English verse historiography seek to authorise their works and themselves. Paying careful attention to the texts, it traces the ways in which authors inscribe their fictional selves and seek to give authority to their constructions of history. It further investigates how the authors position themselves in relation to their task of writing history, their sources and their audiences. This study provides new ...

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-213) and index.

Introduction -- The task of writing history -- History : the subject matter -- Empowering written texts -- Negotiating authority -- Inscribing authority -- Conclusion.

In English; with some passages in Middle English.

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""This book discusses the strategies and rhetorical means by which four authors of Middle English verse historiography seek to authorise their works and themselves. Paying careful attention to the texts, it traces the ways in which authors inscribe their fictional selves and seek to give authority to their constructions of history. It further investigates how the authors position themselves in relation to their task of writing history, their sources and their audiences. This study provides new ...

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