Style and consciousness in Middle English narrative /

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 f...

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Main Author:	Ganim, John M., 1945- (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1983]
Subjects:	English poetry > Middle English, 1100-1500 > History and criticism. English language > Middle English, 1100-1500 > Style. Narrative poetry, English > History and criticism. Romances, English > History and criticism. Narration (Rhetoric) > History > To 1500. Space and time in literature. Reader-response criticism. Rhetoric, Medieval.
Online Access:	Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:	9781400855179 1400855179 9780691065809 0691065802 0691613117 9780691613116
Local Note:	ProQuest Ebook Central