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This book investigates how subjectivity is encoded in the texts of a wide variety of medieval narratives and lyrics - not how they express the subjectivity of individuals, but how subjectivity, escaping the bounds of individuality, is incorporated in the linguistic fabric of their texts. Most of the poems discussed are in English, and the book includes analyses of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, Man of Law's Tale, and Complaint Unto Pity, the works of the Pearl poet, Havelok the Dane, the lyric sequence attributed to Charles of Orleans (the earliest such sequence in English), and many anonymous poems. It also devotes sections to Ovid's Heroides and to poems by the troubadour Bernart de Ventadorn. For the first time, it brings to bear on medieval narratives and lyrics a body of theory which denies the supposed necessity for literary texts to have narrators or 'speakers', and in doing so reveals the implausibilities into which a dogmatic assumption of this necessity has led much of the last century's criticism.

Poetry --- Fiction --- Old English literature --- Thematology --- Literary rhetorics --- anno 1100-1199 --- anno 1200-1499 --- English poetry --- Subjectivity in literature --- Narrative poetry, English (Middle) --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Rhetoric, Medieval --- Middle English, 1100-1500 --- History and criticism --- History --- Rhetoric, Medieval. --- Subjectivity in literature. --- History and criticism. --- English poetry - Middle English, 1100-1500 - History and criticism --- Narrative poetry, English (Middle) - History and criticism --- Narration (Rhetoric) - History - To 1500 --- Subjectivité --- Poésie anglaise --- Poésie narrative anglaise --- Dans la littérature --- 1100-1500 (moyen anglais) --- Histoire et critique

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Manuscripts, English (Middle) --- -Christian poetry, English (Middle) --- English poetry --- -Knights and knighthood in literature --- Littérature anglaise --- --Moyen âge, --- History and criticism --- Gawain and the Grene Knight --- Christian poetry, English (Middle) --- English manuscripts (Middle) --- Manuscripts, Middle English --- Middle English manuscripts --- Gawain and the Grene Knight. --- Pearl (Middle English poem) --- Patience (Middle English poem) --- Purity (Middle English poem) --- Pearl (Middle English poem). --- Patience (Middle English poem). --- Purity (Middle English poem). --- -English poetry --- -Arthurian romances --- -English manuscripts (Middle) --- Arthurian romances --- Knights and knighthood in literature --- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. --- Sir Gawain and the Grene Knight --- Sir Gawayne and the Grene Knight --- Gawayne and the Grene Knight --- Cleanness (Middle English poem) --- Knights and knighthood in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Manuscripts, English (Middle) - - West Midlands - England --- -Christian poetry, English (Middle) - History and criticism --- English poetry - - History and criticism - Middle English, 1100-1500 --- Moyen âge, 476-1492

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English poetry --- History and criticism.

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