Ganim Style and Consciousness in Middle English Narrative

Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-5517-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 190 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library

John M. Ganim presents a revised theory of late medieval literary history based on the relationship of the poet to the reader. His work shows how the increasingly compromised exemplary intent of later medieval poets led them to dramatize the reader as a character in the text and to develop complex forms of narrative characterized by discontinuity, distortion, and disorientation.

Originally published in 1983.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Ganim, John M.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

FrontMatter, pg. i
Contents, pg. vii
Acknowledgments, pg. ix
Introduction, pg. 1
Chapter 1. Community and Consciousness in Early Middle English Romance, pg. 16
Chapter 2. Disorientation, Style, and Perception in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, pg. 55
Chapter 3. Consciousness and Time in Troilus and Criseyde, pg. 79
Chapter 4. Mannerism and Moralism in Lydgate’s Siege of Thebes, pg. 103
Chapter 5. The Limits of Vision in Henryson’s Testament of Cresseid, pg. 123
Epilogue, pg. 142
Notes, pg. 155
Index, pg. 173