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Poetry --- French literature (outside France) --- Old French literature --- Literary rhetorics --- retoriek --- Chansons de trouvères --- Medieval rhetoric --- Middeleeuwse retorica --- Retorica [Middeleeuwse ] --- Rhetoric [Medieval ] --- Rhétorique médiévale --- Trouvère songs --- Trouvère-liederen --- Trouvères --- Trouvères--Chansons --- French poetry --- To 1500 --- History and criticism

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Ann W. Astell here affords a radically new understanding of the rhetorical nature of allegorical poetry in the late Middle Ages. She shows that major English writers of that era-among them, William Langland, John Gower, Geoffrey Chaucer, and the Gawain-poet-offered in their works of fiction timely commentary on current events and public issues. Poems previously regarded as only vaguely political in their subject matter are seen by Astell to be highly detailed and specific in their veiled historical references, implied audiences, and admonitions. Astell begins by describing the Augustinian and Boethian rhetorical principles involved in the invention of allegory. She then compares literary and historical treatments of key events in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century England, finding an astonishing match of allusions and code words, especially those deriving from puns, titles, heraldic devices, and personal cognizances, as well as repeated proverbs, prophecies, and exempla. Among the works she discusses are John Ball's Letters and parts of Piers Plowman, which she presents as two examples of allegorical literature associated with the Peasants' Revolution of 1381; Gower's allegorical representation of the Merciless Parliament of 1388 in Confessio Amantis; and Chaucer's brilliant literary handling of key events in the reign of Richard II. In addition Astell argues for a precise dating of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight between 1397 and 1399 and decodes the work as a political allegory.

Allegorie --- Allegory --- Allégorie --- Inventio (Retorica) --- Invention (Rhetoric) --- Invention (Rhétorique) --- Medieval rhetoric --- Middeleeuwse retorica --- Retorica [Middeleeuwse ] --- Rhetoric [Medieval ] --- Rhétorique médiévale --- English literature --- Political poetry, English (Middle) --- Politics and literature --- Rhetoric, Medieval. --- Allegory. --- Personification in literature --- Symbolism in literature --- Rhetoric --- English political poetry, Middle --- Middle English political poetry --- Political poetry, English --- Political poetry, Middle English --- English poetry --- History and criticism. --- History --- Great Britain --- Politics and government --- Rhetoric, Medieval --- History and criticism --- Middle English, 1100-1500 --- Political poetry [English ] (Middle) --- To 1500 --- 1154-1399 --- 1399-1485

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Fiction --- Old French literature --- Christian of Troyes --- Chevaliers et chevalerie dans la littérature --- Knights and knighthood in literature --- Logic [Medieval ] --- Logica [Middeleeuwse ] --- Logique médiévale --- Medieval logic --- Medieval rhetoric --- Middeleeuwse logica --- Middeleeuwse retorica --- Retorica [Middeleeuwse ] --- Rhetoric [Medieval ] --- Rhétorique médiévale --- Ridders en ridderschap in de literatuur --- Chretien --- Technique --- Chrétien de Troyes --- Technique. --- Arthurian romances --- Knights and knighthood in literature. --- Logic, Medieval. --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Rhetoric, Medieval. --- History and criticism. --- History --- Chrestien de Troyes --- Christian von Troyes --- Logic, Medieval --- Rhetoric, Medieval --- History and criticism --- Chrétien, --- Chrestien de Troyes, --- Chrestien, --- Kretʹen, --- Kretjen, --- Kristian, --- Troyes, Chrétien de, --- Кретјен, --- To 500 --- Rhetoric --- Discourse analysis, Narrative --- Narratees (Rhetoric) --- Chretien - Technique

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Autobiography. --- Desire in literature. --- French literature --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Rhetoric, Medieval. --- Self in literature. --- History and criticism. --- History --- Begeerte in de literatuur --- Desire in literature --- Désir dans la littérature --- Ik in de literatuur --- Medieval rhetoric --- Middeleeuwse retorica --- Moi dans la littérature --- Retorica [Middeleeuwse ] --- Rhetoric [Medieval ] --- Rhétorique médiévale --- Autobiographies --- Egodocuments --- Memoirs --- 82-3 --- Autobiography --- -Narration (Rhetoric) --- Rhetoric, Medieval --- Self in literature --- Narrative (Rhetoric) --- Narrative writing --- 82-3 Proza. Fictie. Narratologie --- Proza. Fictie. Narratologie --- History and criticism --- Technique --- Biography as a literary form --- Fiction --- Old French literature --- To 1500 --- 82-3 Fiction. Prose narrative --- Fiction. Prose narrative --- Rhetoric --- Discourse analysis, Narrative --- Narratees (Rhetoric)

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Old French literature --- Christian church history --- Fiction --- Medieval Latin literature --- anno 1100-1199 --- anno 1200-1299 --- United Kingdom --- Medieval rhetoric --- Middeleeuwse retorica --- Retorica [Middeleeuwse ] --- Rhetoric [Medieval ] --- Rhétorique médiévale --- Christian poetry, Anglo-Norman --- Anglo-Norman literature --- Christian hagiography --- Christian saints in literature. --- Poésie chrétienne anglo-normande --- Littérature anglo-normande --- Hagiographie chrétienne --- Saints chrétiens dans la littérature --- History and criticism --- History and criticism. --- History --- Histoire et critique --- Histoire --- Christian saints in literature --- -Christian poetry, Anglo-Norman --- -Christian saints in literature --- -Hagiography, Christian --- Hagiography --- Anglo-Norman Christian poetry --- Anglo-Norman poetry --- British literature --- French literature --- -History and criticism --- -Anglo-Norman literature --- Poésie chrétienne anglo-normande --- Littérature anglo-normande --- Hagiographie chrétienne --- Saints chrétiens dans la littérature --- Hagiographie --- Littérature médiévale --- Christian poetry, Anglo-Norman - History and criticism --- Anglo-Norman literature - History and criticism --- Christian hagiography - History - To 1500 --- HAGIOGRAPHIE MEDIEVALE --- ANGLETERRE