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Description Middle English is a student guide to the most influential critical writing on Middle English literature. A student guide to the most influential critical writing on Middle English literature. Brings together extracts from some of the major authorities in the field. Introduces readers to different critical approaches to key Middle English texts. Treats a wide range of Middle English texts, including The Owl and the Nightingale, The Canterbury Tales and Morte d Arthur. Organized around key critical concerns, such as authorship, genre, and textual form. Each critical concern can be used as the basis for one week s work in a semester–long course. Enables readers to forge new connections between different approaches. Product Description From the Back Cover Middle English Literature is a student guide to the most influential critical writing on the subject. The guide brings together a cross–section of key critical work, in order to demonstrate how different schools of thought have treated major interpretative concerns, including authorship, textual form, genre, and literature and history. Extracts from some of the major authorities in the field introduce readers to such diverse approaches as New Criticism, textual criticism, genre criticism, historicism, feminism, psychoanalysis, and queer theory. These extracts treat a wide range of texts, from The Owl and the Nightingale and Chaucer s Canterbury Tales , to Malory s Morte d Arthur and the Paston letters. Brief overviews from the editor place the pieces in context. By enabling readers to research the critical reception of key works, and to forge new connections between different approaches, this guide steers them through the rich critical terrain of Middle English studies. About the Author Roger Dalrymple is Tutorial Fellow in English at St Hugh s College, Oxford. He is the author of Language and Piety in Middle English Romance (2000) and Associate Editor of the journal Arthurian Literature Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell (18 June 2004) Language: English ISBN-10: 0631232893 ISBN-13: 978-0631232896    Sharing Widget |