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Author: Katharine Breen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010-04-29
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 0521199220
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArgues that the adaptation of habitus for a universal audience supported the development of a vernacular reading public.
Author: Derek Attridge
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2019-02-14
Total Pages: 462
ISBN-13: 0192569570
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWas the experience of poetry—or a cultural practice we now call poetry—continuously available across the two-and-a-half millennia from the composition of the Homeric epics to the publication of Ben Jonson's Works and the death of Shakespeare in 1616? How did the pleasure afforded by the crafting of language into memorable and moving rhythmic forms play a part in the lives of hearers and readers in Ancient Greece and Rome, Europe during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, and Britain during the Renaissance? In tackling these questions, this book first examines the evidence for the performance of the Iliad and the Odyssey and of Ancient Greek lyric poetry, the impact of the invention of writing on Alexandrian verse, the performances of poetry that characterized Ancient Rome, and the private and public venues for poetic experience in Late Antiquity. It moves on to deal with medieval verse, exploring the oral traditions that spread across Europe in the vernacular languages, the place of manuscript transmission, the shift from roll to codex and from papyrus to parchment, and the changing audiences for poetry. A final part investigates the experience of poetry in the English Renaissance, from the manuscript verse of Henry VIII's court to the anthologies and collections of the late Elizabethan era. Among the topics considered in this part are the importance of the printed page, the continuing significance of manuscript circulation, the performance of poetry in pageants and progresses, and the appearance of poets on the Elizabethan stage. In tracking both continuity and change across these many centuries, the book throws fresh light on the role and importance of poetry in western culture.
Author: Daniel G. Donoghue
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2022-09-06
Total Pages: 355
ISBN-13: 1843846411
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA new look at how reading was practised and represented in England from the seventh century to the beginnings of the print era, finding many kinships between reading cultures across the medieval longue durée.
Author: Anne Schuurman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2023-12-31
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 1009385968
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExploring debt's permutations in Middle English texts, Anne Schuurman makes the bold claim that the capitalist spirit has its roots in Christian penitential theology. Her argument challenges the longstanding belief that faith and theological doctrine in the Middle Ages were inimical to the development of market economies, showing that the same idea of debt is in fact intrinsic to both. The double penitential-financial meaning of debt, and the spiritual paradoxes it creates, is a linchpin of scholastic and vernacular theology, and of the imaginative literature of late medieval England. Focusing on the doubleness of debt, this book traces the dynamic by which the Christian ascetic ideal, in its rejection of material profit and wealth acquisition, ends up producing precisely what it condemns. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.
Author: Eric Weiskott
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-10-27
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 1107169658
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA revisionary account of the 900-year-long history of a major poetic tradition, explored through metrics and literary history.
Author: Jonas Wellendorf
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-04-12
Total Pages: 221
ISBN-13: 110842497X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study shows some of the ways in which medieval Scandinavians received and re-interpreted pre-Christian religion.
Author: Geoffrey Russom
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-04-07
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 1107148332
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book traces the evolution of traditional English verse structures from their Old and Middle origins to the Modern English period.
Author: Katie L. Walter
Publisher:
Published: 2018-06-21
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 1108426611
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst full-length study of the mouth's centrality to discourses of physical, ethical and spiritual 'good' in Middle English literature.
Author: Rebecca L. Krug
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2017-03-07
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 1501708155
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince its rediscovery in 1934, the fifteenth-century Book of Margery Kempe has become a canonical text for students of medieval Christian mysticism and spirituality. Its author was a fifteenth-century English laywoman who, after the birth of her first child, experienced vivid religious visions and vowed to lead a deeply religious life while remaining part of the secular world. After twenty years, Kempe began to compose with the help of scribes a book of consolation, a type of devotional writing found in late medieval religious culture that taught readers how to find spiritual comfort and how to feel about one's spiritual life. In Margery Kempe and the Lonely Reader, Rebecca Krug shows how and why Kempe wrote her Book, arguing that in her engagement with written culture she discovered a desire to experience spiritual comfort and to interact with fellow believers who also sought to live lives of intense emotional engagement.An unlikely candidate for authorship in the late medieval period given her gender and lack of formal education, Kempe wrote her Book as a revisionary act. Krug shows how the Book reinterprets concepts from late medieval devotional writing (comfort, despair, shame, fear, and loneliness) in its search to create a spiritual community that reaches out to and includes Kempe, her friends, family, advisers, and potential readers. Krug offers a fresh analysis of the Book as a written work and draws attention to the importance of reading, revision, and collaboration for understanding both Kempe’s particular decision to write and the social conditions of late medieval women’s authorship.
Author: Eric Weiskott
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2021-01-15
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 0812252640
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat would English literary history look like if the unit of measure were not the political reign but the poetic tradition? The earliest poems in English were written in alliterative verse, the meter of Beowulf. Alliterative meter preceded tetrameter, which first appeared in the twelfth century, and tetrameter in turn preceded pentameter, the five-stress line that would become the dominant English verse form of modernity, though it was invented by Chaucer in the 1380s. While this chronology is accurate, Eric Weiskott argues, the traditional periodization of literature in modern scholarship distorts the meaning of meters as they appeared to early poets and readers. In Meter and Modernity in English Verse, 1350-1650, Weiskott examines the uses and misuses of these three meters as markers of literary time, "medieval" or "modern," though all three were in concurrent use both before and after 1500. In each section of the book, he considers two of the traditions through the prism of a third element: alliterative meter and tetrameter in poems of political prophecy; alliterative meter and pentameter in William Langland's Piers Plowman and early blank verse; and tetrameter and pentameter in Chaucer, his predecessors, and his followers. Reversing the historical perspective in which scholars conventionally view these authors, Weiskott reveals Langland to be metrically precocious and Chaucer metrically nostalgic. More than a history of prosody, Weiskott's book challenges the divide between medieval and modern literature. Rejecting the premise that modernity occurred as a specifiable event, he uses metrical history to renegotiate the trajectories of English literary history and advances a narrative of sociocultural change that runs parallel to metrical change, exploring the relationship between literary practice, social placement, and historical time.
