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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
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Community and Consciousness in Early Middle English Romance
  • Chapter 2. Disorientation, Style, and Perception in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
  • Chapter 3. Consciousness and Time in Troilus and Criseyde
  • Chapter 4. Mannerism and Moralism in Lydgate's Siege of Thebes
  • Chapter 5. The Limits of Vision in Henryson's Testament of Cresseid
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Index
  • Backmatter.

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