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Voice in later medieval English literature : public interiorities /

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David Lawton approaches later medieval English vernacular culture in terms of voice, and shows how medieval texts constitute the foundation of a literary history of voice that extends to modernity. As texts and discourses shift in translation and use, antecedent texts are revoiced in ways that recre...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lawton, David, 1948- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
English literature > Middle English, 1100-1500 > History and criticism.
Voice in literature.
Littérature anglaise > 1100-1500 (Moyen anglais) > Histoire et critique.
Voix dans la littérature.
English literature > Middle English
English literature > Early modern
Voice in literature
1100-1500
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: voice work
  • 'Voices in the world': some definitions of voice
  • Voice as craft and myth: Proust, Chaucer, Machaut
  • Voice and public interiorities
  • Voice after Arundel
  • Voice as confession: Piers Plowman and the culture of memory
  • Rhythms of dialogue: nature, fortune and the poet's voice
  • Traditions of voice: image, interiority, parody.