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Medieval Autographies: The "I" of the Text (ND Conway Lectures in Medieval Studies)

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Description for Medieval Autographies: The "I" of the Text (ND Conway Lectures in Medieval Studies) Paperback. Series: Conway Lectures in Medieval Studies. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 522.

In Medieval Autographies, A. C. Spearing develops a new engagement of narrative theory with medieval English first-person writing, focusing on the roles and functions of the “I” as a shifting textual phenomenon, not to be defined either as autobiographical or as the label of a fictional speaker or narrator. Spearing identifies and explores a previously unrecognized category of medieval English poetry, calling it "autography.” He describes this form as emerging in the mid-fourteenth century and consisting of extended nonlyrical writings in the first person, embracing prologues, authorial interventions in and commentaries on third-person narratives, and descendants of the dit, a ... Read more

Beginning with what may be the earliest extended first-person narrative in Middle English, Winner and Waster, the book examines instances of the dit as discussed by French scholars, analyzes Chaucer’s Wife of Bath’s Prologue as a textual performance, and devotes separate chapters to detailed readings of Hoccleve’s Regement of Princes prologue, his Complaint and Dialogue, and the witty first-person elements in Osbern Bokenham’s legends of saints. An afterword suggests possible further applications of the concept of autography, including discussion of the intermittent autographic commentaries on the narrative in Troilus and Criseyde and Capgrave’s Life of Saint Katherine.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Series
Conway Lectures in Medieval Studies
Number of Pages
356
Place of Publication
Notre Dame IN, United States
ISBN
9780268017828
SKU
V9780268017828
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About A. C. Spearing
A. C. Spearing is William R. Kenan Professor of English at the University of Virginia and a Life Fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge. He is the author and editor of fourteen books, including Textual Subjectivity: The Encoding of Subjectivity in Medieval Narratives and Lyrics.

Reviews for Medieval Autographies: The "I" of the Text (ND Conway Lectures in Medieval Studies)
". . . Here, [Spearing] not only extends his work [in Textual Subjectivity] to a new series of texts, but grounds it in another 'supergenre,' the medieval French form of first-person poetry known as the dit . . . [literary critics] could find abundant compensation by becoming as accurate and nuanced readers as Spearing. . . ." —Times Literary Supplement ... Read more

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