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The old speaker in Middle English literature often claims to be impaired because of age. This admission is often followed by narratives that directly contradict it, as speakers, such as the Reeve in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales or Amans in Gower's Confessio Amantis, proceed to perform even as they claim debility. More than the modesty topos, this contradiction exists, the book argues, as prosthesis: old age brings with it debility, but discussing age-related impairments augments the old, impaired body, while simultaneously undercutting and emphasizing bodily impairments. This language of prosthesis becomes a metaphor for the works these speakers use to fashion narrative, which exist as incomplete yet powerful sources.
English literature --- Old age in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Older people in literature --- ld age in literature. --- Caxton. --- Chaucer. --- Disability. --- Hamlet. --- Hoccleve. --- John Gower. --- Middle English literature. --- Polonius. --- prosthesis. --- rhetoric.
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Anchorites and their texts, such as Ancrene Wisse, have recently undergone a reevaluation based on material circumstances, not just theological import. The articles here address a variety of anchoritic or anchoritic-adjacent texts, encompassing guidance literature, hagiographies, miracle narratives, medical discourse, and mystic prose, and spanning in date from the eighth through the fourteenth centuries. Exploring reclusion and materiality, the collection addresses a series of overlapping themes, including the importance of touch, the limits of religious authority, and the role of the senses. Objects, metaphorical and real, embodied and spiritual, populate the pages. These categories are permeable, with flexible and porous boundaries, demonstrating the conflation of ideas, concepts, and manifestations in medieval materiality. In fact, the permeability of these categories demonstrates how materiality can reshape our approach to medieval texts. It leaves room for directions for future study, including the application of material analysis to previously unstudied objects, spaces, and literary artifacts.
Material culture in literature. --- Christian literature, English (Middle) --- History and criticism. --- Christian literature, English --- Christian literature, Middle English --- English Christian literature, Middle --- Middle English Christian literature --- English literature --- Middle English literature. --- anchorites. --- ancrenne wisse. --- embodiment. --- medieval materiality. --- medieval relics. --- reclusion.
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English literature --- History and criticism --- Middle English. --- Old English. --- Anglo-Saxon literature --- English literature, Old --- Old English literature --- Middle English literature --- 450 - 1500 --- British literature --- Inklings (Group of writers) --- Nonsense Club (Group of writers) --- Order of the Fancy (Group of writers)
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This unique and exciting collection, inspired by the scholarship of literary critic Stephanie Trigg, offers cutting-edge responses to the writings of Geoffrey Chaucer for the current critical moment. The chapters are linked by the organic and naturally occurring affinities that emerge from Trigg's ongoing legacy; containing diverse methodological approaches and themes, they engage with Chaucer through ecocriticism, medieval literary and historical criticism, and medievalism. The contributors, trailblazing international specialists in their respective fields, honour Trigg's distinctive and energetic mode of enquiry (the symptomatic long history) and intellectual contribution to the humanities. At the same time, their approaches exemplify shifting trends in Chaucer scholarship. Like Chaucer's pilgrims, these scholars speak to and alongside each other, but their essays are also attentive to 'hearing Chaucer speak' then, now and in the future.
Chaucer, Geoffrey, --- Chaucer, Geoffrey --- Festschrift --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Alliterative Verse. --- Chaucer Redactions. --- Chaucer, Geoffrey. --- Ecocriticism. --- Emotions in Literature. --- Emotions, History. --- Face in Literature. --- Fifteenth-century Caxton. --- Geoffrey Chaucer. --- Medieval Literature. --- Medieval Romance. --- Medievalism. --- Middle English Literature. --- Nineteenth-century medievalism. --- Stephanie Trigg. --- Trigg, Stephanie.
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English poetry --- -Engels: literatuurgeschiedenis --- English literature --- -Literary collections. --- -English poetry --- -Middle Ages --- -Literary collections --- England --- Angleterre --- Anglii︠a︡ --- Inghilterra --- Engeland --- Inglaterra --- Anglija --- Civilization --- Middle Ages --- Anglo-Saxon poetry --- English poetry, Old --- Old English poetry --- Middle English literature --- Literary collections --- England and Wales --- Literary collections. --- Engels: literatuurgeschiedenis --- Littérature anglaise --- English literature - Middle English, 1100-1500 --- Middle Ages - Literary collections --- England - Civilization - 1066-1485 - Literary collections --- England - Civilization - To 1066 - Literary collections
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English literature --- English philology --- Civilization, Medieval, in literature --- Civilization, Medieval, in literature. --- English literature. --- English philology. --- Middle English. --- Old English. --- 450-1500 --- Anglo-Saxon philology --- English philology, Old --- Old English philology --- Germanic philology --- Middle English literature --- British literature --- Inklings (Group of writers) --- Nonsense Club (Group of writers) --- Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) --- Littérature anglaise --- Philologie anglaise --- Civilisation médiévale dans la littérature --- Arts and Humanities --- Language & Linguistics
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Humankind has always been fascinated by the world in which it finds itself, and puzzled by its relations to it. Today that fascination is often expressed in what is now called 'green' terms, reflecting concerns about the non-human natural world, puzzlement about how we relate to it, and anxiety about what we, as humans, are doing to it. So called green or eco-criticism acknowledges this concern.Greenery reaches back and offers new readings of English texts, both known and unfamiliar, informed by eco-criticism. After considering general issues pertaining to green criticism, Greenery moves on to a series of individual chapters arranged by theme (earth, trees, wilds, sea, gardens and fields) which provide individual close readings of selections from such familiar texts as Malory's Morte D'Arthur, Chaucer's Knight's and Franklin's Tales, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Langland's Piers Plowman. These discussions are contextualized by considering them alongside hitherto marginalized texts such as lyrics, Patience and the romance Sir Orfeo. The result is a study which reinvigorates our customary reading of late Middle English literary texts while also allows us to reflect upon the vibrant new school of eco-criticism itself.
Nature in literature. --- English literature --- Ecocriticism. --- Ecological literary criticism --- Environmental literary criticism --- Criticism --- Nature in poetry --- History and criticism. --- Literary studies: ancient, classical & medieval. --- Literature. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval. --- Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval. --- British literature --- Inklings (Group of writers) --- Nonsense Club (Group of writers) --- Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Philology --- Authors --- Authorship --- Middle English. --- Middle English literature --- Thematology --- Old English literature --- History of the United Kingdom and Ireland --- anno 1200-1499 --- Sir Orfeo. --- earth. --- eco-criticism. --- fields. --- gardens. --- natural world. --- sea. --- trees. --- wilds.
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This study works with texts in Old English, Middle English and Latin, as well as material and visual culture, to explore how representations of the past created in the British Middle Ages have been reimagined in modernity.
Civilization, Medieval. --- Civilization, Medieval --- Medieval civilization --- Middle Ages --- Civilization --- Chivalry --- Renaissance --- History --- Art, Medieval --- Art, Medieval. --- Civilization. --- Collective memory in art. --- Collective memory --- Crosses --- Middle Ages. --- Monuments --- Political aspects --- 1066-1485. --- England. --- Great Britain --- Great Britain. --- Ruine --- Mittelalter --- Kulturelle Identität --- Kollektives Gedächtnis --- Cultural property. --- Collective memory. --- Cultural property --- Collective remembrance --- Common memory --- Cultural memory --- Emblematic memory --- Historical memory --- National memory --- Public memory --- Social memory --- Memory --- Social psychology --- Group identity --- National characteristics --- Cultural heritage --- Cultural patrimony --- Cultural resources --- Heritage property --- National heritage --- National patrimony --- National treasure --- Patrimony, Cultural --- Treasure, National --- Property --- World Heritage areas --- Barbarism --- Civilisation --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Culture --- World Decade for Cultural Development, 1988-1997 --- Grossbritannien --- Northern Ireland --- Scotland --- Wales --- England and Wales --- Storbritannien --- Anglia --- Wielka Brytania --- Nagy-Britannia --- United Kingdom --- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland --- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland --- Grande-Bretagne --- Angliyah --- Briṭanyah --- Velikobritanii︠a︡ --- Saharātchaʻānāčhak --- Marea Britanie --- Prydain Fawr --- Royaume-Uni --- Iso-Britannia --- Yhdistynyt kuningaskunta --- Förenade kungariket --- Grã-Bretanha --- בריטניה --- イギリス --- Igirisu --- Medieval Literature --- Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval --- Literary studies: ancient, classical & medieval --- Velikobritanii͡ --- Vereinigtes Königreich von Großbritannien und Nordirland --- Großbritannien und Nordirland --- England --- UK --- Angleterre --- Brīṭāniyā al-ʿUẓmā --- Brīṭāniya 'l-ʿUẓmā --- Vereinigtes Königreich Großbritannien und Nordirland --- Grande Bretagne --- British Isles --- Gran Bretagna --- U.K. --- GB --- British Empire --- Britisches Reich --- Briten --- Schottland --- Commonwealth --- 1707 --- -Civilization --- Cultural memory. --- Material culture. --- Medieval culture. --- Medieval studies. --- Medievalism. --- Memory studies. --- Middle English literature. --- Monument studies. --- Old English literature. --- Visual culture. --- Großbritannien.
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