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100 1 $aFletcher, Alan J.
245 14 $aThe presence of medieval English literature :$bstudies at the interface of history, author, and text in a selection of Middle English literary landmarks /$cby Alan J. Fletcher.
260 $aTurnhout :$bBrepols,$cc2012.
300 $a302 p. ;$c24 cm.
490 1 $aCursor mundi ;$vv. 14
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [269]-294) and index.
520 8 $aThe modern period has read its own contingent values into Middle English literature, and a modern canon of vernacular medieval literary texts has evolved as a result. While this book works with a selection of texts that have achieved such canonical status, it brings to light some of the ways in which they nevertheless resist the flattening domestications and expectations of modern taste. It illustrates how they formerly existed as constituents of a past world richer, stranger, and less familiar than much modern opinion has supposed. Thus the book aims to recuperate lost senses in which the age in which these texts were conceived and written was present within them, as well as ways in which they may have been present to their age. This twin idea of 'presence' is the thread that binds a series of chapters on English verse and prose written between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries together.
650 0 $aEnglish literature$yMiddle English, 1100-1500$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc.
650 0 $aCanon (Literature)$xHistory$yTo 1500.
650 0 $aPresence in literature.
650 0 $aSociety in literature.
650 0 $aLiterature and society$zEngland$xHistory$yTo 1500.
830 0 $aCursor mundi (Turnhout, Belgium) ;$vv. 14.
852 00 $bglx$hPR275.S826$iF59 2012g