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Shaping the Archive in Late Medieval England
Sarah Elliott Novacich explores the ways in which the plots of sacred history were preserved and repurposed in Medieval English literature.
The Life Course in Old English Poetry
In the first book-length study of the whole lifespan in Old English verse, Harriet Soper reveals how poets depicted varied paths through life, including their staging of entanglements between human life courses and those of the nonhuman or more-than-human. While Old English poetry sometimes suggests that uniform patterns shape each life, paralleling patristic traditions of the ages of man, it also frequently disrupts a sense of steady linearity through the life course in striking ways, foregrounding moments of sudden upheaval over smooth continuity, contingency over predictability, and idiosyncrasy over regularity. Advancing new readings of a diverse range of Old English poems, Soper draws on an array of supporting contexts and theories to illuminate these texts, unearthing their complex and fascinating depictions of ageing through life. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.
Matter and Making in Early English Poetry
This is a new literary history of medieval and early modern English court poetry, featuring in-depth studies of Chaucer, Gower, Hoccleve, Lydgate, Skelton, and Wyatt.
The City of Poetry
Shows how medieval Italian poets viewed their authorship of poetry as a function of their engagement in a human community.
The Shapes of Early English Poetry
This volume contributes to the study of early English poetics. In these essays, several related approaches and fields of study radiate outward from poetics, including stylistics, literary history, word studies, gender studies, metrics, and textual criticism. By combining and redirecting these traditional scholarly methods, as well as exploring newer ones such as object-oriented ontology and sound studies, these essays demonstrate how poetry responds to its intellectual, literary, and material contexts. The contributors propose to connect the small (syllables, words, and phrases) to the large (histories, emotions, faiths, secrets). In doing so, they attempt to work magic on the texts they consider: turning an ordinary word into something strange and new, or demonstrating texture, difference, and horizontality where previous eyes had perceived only smoothness, sameness, and verticality.
Literary Value and Social Identity in the Canterbury Tales
Introduction: Canterbury tales IV-V and literary value -- Clerk -- Merchant -- Squire -- Franklin.
The Experience of Education in Anglo-Saxon Literature
Reveals the rich emotional experience of teaching and learning as revealed in Anglo-Saxon literature.
Medieval Affect, Feeling, and Emotion
Provides a new, intersectional investigation of affects, feelings, and emotions in late Middle English literature.
Teaching the Global Middle Ages
While globalization is a modern phenomenon, premodern people were also interconnected in early forms of globalism, sharing merchandise, technology, languages, and stories over long distances. Looking across civilizations, this volume takes a broad view of the Middle Ages in order to foster new habits of thinking and develop a multilayered, critical sense of the past. The essays in this volume reach across disciplinary lines to bring insights from music, theater, religion, ecology, museums, and the history of disease into the literature classroom. The contributors provide guidance on texts such as the Thousand and One Nights, Sunjata, Benjamin of Tudela's Book of Travels, and the Malay Annals and on topics such as hotels, maps, and camels. They propose syllabus recommendations, present numerous digital resources, and offer engaging class activities and discussion questions. Ultimately, they provide tools that will help students evaluate popular representations of the Middle Ages and engage with the dynamics of past, present, and future world relationships.
Middle English Mouths
First full-length study of the mouth's centrality to discourses of physical, ethical and spiritual 'good' in Middle English literature.
