Lyric Tactics

Lyric Tactics

Author: Ingrid Nelson

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2017-01-13

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 0812248791

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In Lyric Tactics, Ingrid Nelson argues that the lyric poetry of later medieval England is a distinct genre defined not by its poetic features—rhyme, meter, and stanza forms—but by its modes of writing and performance, which are ad hoc, improvisatory, and situational.


Disknowledge

Disknowledge

Author: Katherine Eggert

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2015-10-29

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 0812247515

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Katherine Eggert explores the crumbling state of humanistic learning in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and the benefits of relying on alchemy despite its recognized flaws.