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Reading Literature Historically: Drama and Poetry from Chaucer to the Reformation

Name: Reading Literature Historically: Drama and Poetry from Chaucer to the Reformation
ISBN: 9780748681013

Greg Walker

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Pioneer of early-modern literary historicism reads Medieval & early Tudor drama & poetry historically. How far should we try to read medieval and early modern texts historically? Does the attempt to uncover how such texts might have been received by their original readers and audiences uncover new, hitherto unexpected contemporary resonances in them? Or does it flatten works of art into mere 'secondary sources' for historical analysis? This book makes the case for the study of literature in context. It demonstrates the value of historical and cultural analysis alongside traditional literary scholarship for enriching our understanding of plays and poems from the medieval and early Tudor past and of the cultures which produced and received them. It equally accepts the risks involved in that kind of study.

Catégories:

Poetry - American Poetry

Année:

2013

Editeur::

Edinburgh University Press

Langue:

english

Pages:

216

ISBN 10:

0748681019