English Literary Criticism

The Medieval Phase

J. W. H. Atkins (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

220 Seiten

2021
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-76324-4 (ISBN)

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In England literary consciousness had its beginning in the middle ages, and this book, originally published in 1943, describes and illustrates the first phases of the growth of a tradition of criticism. It does not confine itself to writers whose interest was in the vernacular, for there was a larger European movement of which English criticism was a part. It embodied much of the ancient teaching, but it shows recurring efforts to arrive at the nature and art of poetry; it provides a key to contemporary literature and is of great help in understanding what really happened at the 16th Century Renaissance.

J. W. H. Atkins was a Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge and Emeritus Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Aberystwyth

1. Introduction 2. The Medieval Inheritance 3. Early Grammarians: Bede and Alcuin 4. The Dawn of Humanism: John of Salisbury 5. Medieval Poetics: Geoffrey of Vinsauf and John of Garland 6. Check and Counter-Check to Literary Studies: John of Garland, Robert Grosseteste, Roger Bacon and Richard of Bury 7. Native Literary Problems: The Owl and the Nightingale, Wiclif, Chaucer 8. Native Literary Problems (continued): Caxton, Hawes, Skelton 9. Conclusion Appendix: Summary of Medieval poetic (Geoffrey of Vinsauf).

Erscheinungsdatum	20.05.2021
Reihe/Serie	J. W. H. Atkins on Literary Criticism
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	571 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-367-76324-9 / 0367763249
ISBN-13	978-0-367-76324-4 / 9780367763244
Zustand	Neuware