The Grounds of English Literature
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 9 December 2004
- ISBN 9780199270828
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages256 pages
- Size 224x145x19 mm
- Weight 430 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 7 black and white ilustrations, 3 line drawings 0
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Short description:
The centuries just after the Norman Conquest are the forgotten period of English Literary History. Yet the years 1066-1300 witnessed an unparalleled ingenuity in the creation of written forms. Using an innovative theory of literary form applied to a series of detailed readings of the more important early Middle English works, Cannon shows how the many and varied texts of the period laid the foundations for the project of English Literature.
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The centuries just after the Norman Conquest are the forgotten period of English literary history. In fact, the years 1066-1300 witnessed an unparalleled ingenuity in the creation of written forms, for this was a time when almost every writer was unaware of the existence of other English writing. In a series of detailed readings of the more important early Middle English works, Cannon shows how the many and varied texts of the period laid the foundations for the project of English literature. This richness is for the first time given credit in these readings by means of an innovative theory of literary form that accepts every written shape as itself a unique contribution to the history of ideas. This theory also suggests that the impoverished understanding of literature we now commonly employ is itself a legacy of this early period, an attribute of the single form we have learned to call 'romance'. A number of reading methods have lately taught us to be more generous in our understandings of what literature might be, but this book shows us that the very variety we now strive to embrace anew actually formed the grounds of English literature-a richness we only lost when we forgot how to recognize it.
a fiercely intelligent and consistently challenging [,]exciting and important book.
Table of Contents:
Preface
The Loss of Literature
The Law of the Land: Lazamon's 'Brut'
Right Writing: 'The Ormulum'
The Meaning of Life: 'The Owl and the Nightingale'
The Place of the Self: 'Ancrene Wisse' and the 'Katherine'-group
The Spirit of Romance: 'King Horn, Havelock the Dane, Floris and Blanchflour'
