Art and Context in Late Medieval English Narrative

by Edwards, Robert R.

• ISBN13: 9780859914079
• ISBN10: 0859914070
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1994-06-01
• Publisher: Ds Brewer

Summary

A collection of essays offering original arguments in a number of areas. Papers cluster around two topics: the writing of Langland and Chaucer, and writing as historical process. These reflect Frank's own wide-ranging work. The papers contain a refreshing ideological diversity while maintaining coherence of intellectual concerns. There is a discussion of the working of memory in The Knights Tale. On debt, on Langland's Christology and on revelry, some very interesting ideas are put foward. In addition, literary contexts for the two major poets are usefully and thoroughly mapped out, and three papers illustrate how historical events and processes may be perceived in stimulatingly different ways. Included is an introduction from the editor and bibliography of Robert Worth Frank, Jnr. Contributors: ELIZABETH KIRK, C. DAVID BENSON, ANNA BALDWIN, M.TERESA TAVORMINA, MONICA McALPINE, MARY CARRUTHERS, KATHRYN L. LYNCH, CAROLYN P. COLLETTE, MARY HAMEL, PAUL STROHM, THOMAS J. HEFFERMAN, PEGGY KNAPP

Table of Contents

Introduction
A Bibliography of Robert Worth Frank, Jr.
The Frustration of Narrative and the Reader in Piers Plowman	p. 1
Langland's Narrative Christology	p. 17
The Debt Narrative in Piers Plowman	p. 37
The Chilling of Charity: Eschatological Allusions and Revisions in Piers Plowman C. 16-17	p. 51
The Triumph of Fiction in the Nun's Priest's Tale	p. 79
Seeing Things: Locational Memory in Chaucer's Knight's Tale	p. 93
Partitioned Fictions: The Meaning and Importance of Walls in Chaucer's Poetry	p. 107
Chaucer's Discourse of Mariology: Gaining the Right to Speak	p. 127
The Descriptio Navalis Pugnae in Middle English Literature	p. 149
"Lad with revel to Newegate": Chaucerian Narrative and Historical Meta-Narrative	p. 163
"God hathe schewed ffor him many grete miracules": Political Canonization and the Miracula of Simon de Montfort	p. 177
Thrift	p. 193
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