From Literacy to Literature
England, 1300-1400
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 26 October 2021
- ISBN 9780192856357
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages314 pages
- Size 215x136x16 mm
- Weight 398 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 2 B&W Illustrations 287
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Short description:
From Literacy to Literature: England, 1300-1400 is a cultural history that draws a line between canonical Ricardian writers and the school-books of their time.
MoreLong description:
The first lessons we learn in school can stay with us all our lives, but this was nowhere more true than in the last decades of the fourteenth century when grammar-school students were not only learning to read and write, but understanding, for the first time, that their mother tongue, English, was grammatical. The efflorescence of Ricardian poetry was not a direct result of this change, but it was everywhere shaped by it. This book characterizes this close connection between literacy training and literature, as it is manifest in the fine and ambitious poetry by Gower, Langland and Chaucer, at this transitional moment. This is also a book about the way medieval training in grammar (or grammatica) shaped the poetic arts in the Middle Ages fully as much as rhetorical training. It answers the curious question of what language was used to teach Latin grammar to the illiterate. It reveals, for the first time, what the surviving schoolbooks from the period actually contain. It describes what form a 'grammar school' took in a period from which no school buildings or detailed descriptions survive. And it scrutinizes the processes of elementary learning with sufficient care to show that, for the grown medieval schoolboy, well-learned books functioned, not only as a touchstone for wisdom, but as a knowledge so personal and familiar that it was equivalent to what we would now call 'experience'.
Cannon's book has done much, as far as the implications for Middle English are concerned. It will feature in debate on the significance of elementary education for the creation of English literature, for many a year to come.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
The Language of Learning
The Ad Hoc Schoolroom
The Basic Grammars and the Grammar-School Style
Grammaticalization and Literary Form
The Basic Reading Texts and Literary Work
Equipment for Living
The Experience of Learning
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