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The Grounds of English Literature 1st Edition by Christopher Cannon ISBN 0199230390 9780199230396

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ISBN 10: 0199230390
ISBN 13: 978-0199230396
Author: Christopher Cannon

The centuries just after the Norman Conquest are the forgotten period of English literary history. In fact, the years 1066-1300 witnessed an unparalleled ingenuity in the creation of written forms, for this was a time when almost every writer was unaware of the existence of other English writing. In a series of detailed readings of the more important early Middle English works, Cannon shows how the many and varied texts of the period laid the foundations for the project of English literature. This richness is for the first time given credit in these readings by means of an innovative theory of literary form that accepts every written shape as itself a unique contribution to the history of ideas. This theory also suggests that the impoverished understanding of literature we now commonly employ is itself a legacy of this early period, an attribute of the single form we have learned to call “romance.” A number of reading methods have lately taught us to be more generous in our understandings of what literature might be, but this book shows us that the very variety we now strive to embrace anew actually formed the grounds of English literature-a richness we only lost when we forgot how to recognize it.

The Grounds of English Literature 1st Table of contents:

1. The Loss of Literature: 1066

Historical Form
The Lost Literature of England
The Shape of the Literary Thing

2. The Law of the Land: Lazamon’s Brut

The Land as Warrant
Immanent Law
Conquest as Consolation

3. Right Writing: The Ormulum

Spelling Practice
Deconstruction
Ut Pictura, Orthographia

4. The Meaning of Life: The Owl and the Nightingale

The Living Thing
The Truth about Women
This Debate which is Not One

**5. The Place of the Self: Ancrene Wisse and the Katherine-group**

The Place of AB Language
Place Itself
Anchorage

6. The Spirit of Romance: King Horn, Havelok the Dane, and Floris and Blancheflour

Romance Form
The Soul is the Prison of the Body
The Grounding of a Thing in Air

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