Author: John William CunliffePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
Century Readings in European Literature (Medieval and Modern)
Author: John William CunliffePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
Century Readings in European Literature
Author: John W. CunliffePublisher:
ISBN: 9780899841243
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 543
Book Description
Century Readings in Ancient Classical and Modern European Literature
Author: John William CunliffePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1192
Book Description
Century Readings in Ancient Classical and Modern European Literature
Author: John William CunliffePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Century Readings in Ancient Classical and Modern European Literature
Author: John William CunliffePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Readings in Medieval Texts
Author: David Frame JohnsonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780199261635
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Readings in Medieval Texts offers a thorough and accessible introduction to the interpretation and criticism of a broad range of Old and Middle English canonical texts from the ninth to the fifteenth centuries. The volume brings together 24 newly commissioned chapters by a leading international team of medieval scholars. An introductory chapter highlights the overarching trends in the composition of English Literature in the Medieval periods, and provides an overview of the textual continuities and innovations. Individual chapters give detailed information about context, authorship, date, and critical views on texts, before providing fascinating and thought-provoking examinations of crucial excerpts and themes. This book will be invaluable for undergraduate and graduate students on all courses in Medieval Studies, particularly those focusing on understanding literature and its role in society.
A History of European Literature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times
Author: John Reynell MorellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Reading the Middle Ages
Author: Theodore L. SteinbergPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786481870
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Medieval literature is separated from us by so many centuries that it may seem completely foreign, both in its concerns and its techniques. However, this literature has much to say to 21st century readers and Steinberg’s book demonstrates its continuing relevance and appeal. This introduction to medieval literature provides some of the cultural context that readers need to know in order to understand the literature, such as the religious orientation of the people, often deep and sincere but sometimes treated casually or subjected to intense scrutiny. The first chapter provides a brief explanation of medieval religious thought, cosmology and intellectual history. The remaining chapters provide introductions to a number of individual works ranging from Beowulf to the works of Chaucer. Avoiding the tendency to regard the Middle Ages as an era dominated by Christian men, these discussions include works by women writers and Jewish writers and a chapter on the medieval Japanese masterpiece The Tale of Genji. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Literary Beginnings in the European Middle Ages
Author: Mark ChincaPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110847764X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
A ground-breaking investigation into the emergence of new written literatures in the vernacular languages of medieval Europe.
Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Readings of the Medieval Orient
Author: Liliana SikorskaPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 1501513362
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
Travel narratives and historical works shaped the perception of Muslims and the East in the Victorian and post-Victorian periods. Analyzing the discourses on Muslims which originated in the European Middle Ages, the first part of the book discusses the troubled legacy of the encounters between the East and the West and locates the nineteenth-century texts concerning the Saracens and their lands in the liminal space between history and fiction. Drawing on the nineteenth-century models, the second part of the book looks at fictional and non-fictional works of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century which re-established the "Oriental obsession," stimulating dread and resentment, and even more strongly setting the Civilized West against the Barbaric East. Here medieval metaphorical enemies of Mankind – the World, the Flesh and the Devil – reappear in different contexts: the world of immigration, of white women desiring Muslim men, and the present-day "freedom fighters."