Middle English literature a Guide to Criticism 1st Edition by Roger Dalrymple ISBN 0631232907 9780631232902

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ISBN 10: 0631232907
ISBN 13: 9780631232902
Author: Roger Dalrymple

Middle English is a student guide to the most influential critical writing on Middle English literature.

• A student guide to the most influential critical writing on Middle English literature.
• Brings together extracts from some of the major authorities in the field.
• Introduces readers to different critical approaches to key Middle English texts.
• Treats a wide range of Middle English texts, including The Owl and the Nightingale, The Canterbury Tales and Morte d’Arthur.
• Organized around key critical concerns, such as authorship, genre, and textual form.
• Each critical concern can be used as the basis for one week’s work in a semester-long course.
• Enables readers to forge new connections between different approaches.

Middle English literature a Guide to Criticism 1st Edition Table of contents:

Section 1: Key Literary Works and Authors
4. Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales and the Birth of the English Literary Tradition
5. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Arthurian Romance and Chivalric Ideals
6. The Pearl Poet: Other Works of the Alliterative Tradition
7. John Gower: The Voice of the Medieval Scholar and Moralist
8. The Romance of the Rose: Continental Influence on English Literature
9. The York Mystery Plays: Religious Drama in Late Medieval England
10. The Rise of Allegory: “Piers Plowman” and Medieval Social Criticism

Section 2: Literary Themes and Genres
11. Courtly Love and Chivalric Ideals in Middle English Literature
12. Religion and Devotional Literature: The Impact of Christianity
13. The Role of Women in Middle English Literature
14. The Medieval Worldview: Cosmology, Fate, and the Human Condition
15. Allegory, Symbolism, and the Use of Dreams in Middle English Texts
16. Social Class, Estates Satire, and the Language of Power
17. Medieval Realism vs. Idealism: The Tension in Middle English Writing

Section 3: Literary Form and Style
18. Poetic Forms: The Alliterative Revival and the Rise of Rhymed Verse
19. The Use of Prose in Middle English Literature
20. Narrative Structure: From Romance to Satire and Allegory
21. The Role of Humor and Irony in Medieval Texts
22. Medieval Rhetoric and the Craft of the Middle English Poet

Section 4: Critical Approaches to Middle English Literature
23. Historicist Criticism: The Role of Historical Context in Understanding the Text
24. Feminist Readings: Gender, Power, and Representation in Medieval Literature
25. Psychoanalytic Criticism: Desire, Repression, and the Unconscious
26. Postcolonial Perspectives: English Identity and the Medieval World
27. New Historicism: The Interaction Between Literature and Society
28. Linguistic and Stylistic Analysis: Reading the Language of the Text

Section 5: Middle English Literature in Modern Scholarship
29. The Reception of Middle English Literature in Modern Academia
30. The Role of Medievalism in Contemporary Literature and Culture
31. Digital Humanities and the Study of Middle English Texts

Section 6: Conclusion and Future Directions
32. New Directions in the Study of Middle English Literature
33. The Legacy of Middle English Literature in the English Literary Tradition

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