Brewer / Windeatt Traditions and Innovations in the Study of Medieval English Literature

The Influence of Derek Brewer
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-78204-117-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 328 Seiten

Essays on the many key aspects of medieval literature, reflecting the significant impact of Professor Derek Brewer.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brewer, Charlotte

Windeatt, Barry A

Weitere Mitwirkende

Spearing, A C

Edwards, A. S. G.

Alastair J. Minnis, Alastair J.

Windeatt, Barry A

Brewer, Charlotte

Cannon, Christopher

Saunders, Corinne

Pearsall, Derek

Archibald, Elizabeth

Stanley, Eric Gerald

Cooper, Helen

Tasioulas, Jacqueline

Simpson, James

Mann, Jill

Carruthers, Mary J

Yeager, Robert F.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: A Modern Medievalist's Career
Derek Brewer: Chaucerian Studies 1953-1978 - Derek Pearsall
Brewer's Chaucer and the Knightly Virtues - Alastair J Minnis
Class Distinction and the French of England - Christopher Cannon
Time in Troilus and Criseyde - A C Spearing ***
Virtue, Intention and the Mind's Eye in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde - Mary Carruthers
Falling in Love in the Middle Ages - Jill Mann
The Idea of Feminine Beauty in Troilus and Criseyde, or Criseyde's Eyebrow - Jacqueline Tasioulas
'Greater Love hath no Man': Friendship in Medieval English Romance - Corinne Saunders
Gowerian Laughter - Robert F. Yeager
Derek Brewer's Romance - James Simpson
Malory and Late Medieval Arthurian Cycles - Elizabeth Archibald
The Ends of Storytelling - Helen Cooper
Manuscripts, Facsimiles and Approaches to Editing - A S G Edwards
Words and Dictionaries: OED, MED and Chaucer - Charlotte Brewer
Afterlives: The Fabulous History of Venus - Barry A Windeatt
Afterword - Eric G. Stanley
Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Edwards A. S. G.:
A. S. G. Edwards is Honorary Professor of Medieval Manuscripts at the University of Kent at Canterbury.Saunders Corinne:
Corinne Saunders is Professor of Medieval Literature at the Department of English Studies, University of Durham.Pearsall Derek:
The late Derek Pearsall was Emeritus Gurney Professor of Middle English Literature at Harvard University; he wrote extensively on Chaucer, Gower, Langland and Lydgate, including biographies of Chaucer and Lydgate, an edition of the C-text of Langland's Piers Plowman.Archibald Elizabeth:
ELIZABETH ARCHIBALD is Professor of English Studies at Durham University, and Principal of St Cuthbert's Society.Simpson James:
James Simpson teaches English at Harvard University. He publishes on a wide range of topics in on late medieval and early modern Western European Literature.