Author: Edward Tyas Cook (Sir).)
Publisher:
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Category : Anthologia graeca
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Literature as Recreation in the Later Middle Ages
Author: Glending Olson
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501746758
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
This book studies attitudes toward secular literature during the later Middle Ages. Exploring two related medieval justifications of literary pleasure—one finding hygienic or therapeutic value in entertainment, and another stressing the psychological and ethical rewards of taking time out from work in order to refresh oneself—Glending Olson reveals that, contrary to much recent opinion, many medieval writers and thinkers accepted delight and enjoyment as valid goals of literature without always demanding moral profit as well. Drawing on a vast amount of primary material, including contemporary medical manuscripts and printed texts, Olson discusses theatrics, humanist literary criticism, prologues to romances and fabliaux, and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. He offers an extended examination of the framing story of Boccaccio's Decameron. Although intended principally as a contribution to the history of medieval literary theory and criticism, Literature as Recreation in the Later Middle Ages makes use of medical, psychological, and sociological insights that lead to a fuller understanding of late medieval secular culture.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501746758
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
This book studies attitudes toward secular literature during the later Middle Ages. Exploring two related medieval justifications of literary pleasure—one finding hygienic or therapeutic value in entertainment, and another stressing the psychological and ethical rewards of taking time out from work in order to refresh oneself—Glending Olson reveals that, contrary to much recent opinion, many medieval writers and thinkers accepted delight and enjoyment as valid goals of literature without always demanding moral profit as well. Drawing on a vast amount of primary material, including contemporary medical manuscripts and printed texts, Olson discusses theatrics, humanist literary criticism, prologues to romances and fabliaux, and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. He offers an extended examination of the framing story of Boccaccio's Decameron. Although intended principally as a contribution to the history of medieval literary theory and criticism, Literature as Recreation in the Later Middle Ages makes use of medical, psychological, and sociological insights that lead to a fuller understanding of late medieval secular culture.
Recreations
Author: Yuri Andrukhovych
Publisher: CIUS Press
ISBN: 9781895571240
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
A celebration of newly found freedom and reflections upon the contradictions of post-Soviet society.
Publisher: CIUS Press
ISBN: 9781895571240
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
A celebration of newly found freedom and reflections upon the contradictions of post-Soviet society.
Monthly Literary Recreations, Or, Magazine of General Information and Amusement
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
Literature as Recreation in the Later Middle Ages
Author: Glending Olson
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501746766
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
This book studies attitudes toward secular literature during the later Middle Ages. Exploring two related medieval justifications of literary pleasure—one finding hygienic or therapeutic value in entertainment, and another stressing the psychological and ethical rewards of taking time out from work in order to refresh oneself—Glending Olson reveals that, contrary to much recent opinion, many medieval writers and thinkers accepted delight and enjoyment as valid goals of literature without always demanding moral profit as well. Drawing on a vast amount of primary material, including contemporary medical manuscripts and printed texts, Olson discusses theatrics, humanist literary criticism, prologues to romances and fabliaux, and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. He offers an extended examination of the framing story of Boccaccio's Decameron. Although intended principally as a contribution to the history of medieval literary theory and criticism, Literature as Recreation in the Later Middle Ages makes use of medical, psychological, and sociological insights that lead to a fuller understanding of late medieval secular culture.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501746766
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
This book studies attitudes toward secular literature during the later Middle Ages. Exploring two related medieval justifications of literary pleasure—one finding hygienic or therapeutic value in entertainment, and another stressing the psychological and ethical rewards of taking time out from work in order to refresh oneself—Glending Olson reveals that, contrary to much recent opinion, many medieval writers and thinkers accepted delight and enjoyment as valid goals of literature without always demanding moral profit as well. Drawing on a vast amount of primary material, including contemporary medical manuscripts and printed texts, Olson discusses theatrics, humanist literary criticism, prologues to romances and fabliaux, and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. He offers an extended examination of the framing story of Boccaccio's Decameron. Although intended principally as a contribution to the history of medieval literary theory and criticism, Literature as Recreation in the Later Middle Ages makes use of medical, psychological, and sociological insights that lead to a fuller understanding of late medieval secular culture.
Medical Record
Author: George Frederick Shrady
Publisher:
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 792
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 792
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The Classical Review
Author:
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Category : Classical philology
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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Publisher:
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Category : Classical philology
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
The Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record
Author:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
The Publisher
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 620
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The Spectator
Author:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 924
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 924
Book Description
Index to Selected Outdoor Recreation Literature
Author: United States. Bureau of Outdoor Recreation
Publisher:
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Category : Outdoor recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Outdoor recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description