Author: Robert NELSON (F.R.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
The Practice of True Devotion ... The Fourteenth Edition, to which is Added the Character of the Author
Author: Robert NELSON (F.R.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 982
Book Description
Literary Character
Author: Elizabeth FowlerPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501724169
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Chaucer introduces the characters of the Knight and the Prioress in the General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales. Beginning with these familiar figures, Elizabeth Fowler develops a new method of analyzing literary character. She argues that words generate human figures in our reading minds by reference to paradigmatic cultural models of the person. These models—such as the pilgrim, the conqueror, the maid, the narrator—originate in a variety of cultural spheres. A concept Fowler terms the "social person" is the key to understanding both the literary details of specific characterizations and their indebtedness to history and culture.Drawing on central texts of medieval and early modern England, Fowler demonstrates that literary characters are created by assembling social persons from throughout culture. Her perspective allows her to offer strikingly original readings of works by Chaucer, Langland, Skelton, and Spenser, and to reformulate and resolve several classic interpretive problems. In so doing, she reframes accepted notions of the process and the consequences of reading.Developing insights from law, theology, economic thought, and political philosophy, Fowler's book replaces the traditional view of characters as autonomous individuals with an interpretive approach in which each character is seen as a battle of many archetypes. According to Fowler, the social person provides the template that enables authors to portray, and readers to recognize, the highly complex human figures that literature requires.
The General Evening Post
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Author: Dinah BirchPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199608210
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 834
Book Description
This book provides a compact guide to all aspects of English literature. For this edition, existing entries have been updated and new entries have been added on contemporary writers such as Jim Crace and Pat Barker.
Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum
Author: British LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1058
Book Description
The Pamphlet Catalogue,1878-9
Author: Clement S. PalmerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors, Living and Deceased, from the Earliest Accounts to the Latter Half of the Nineteenth Century
Author: Samuel Austin AllibonePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1188
Book Description
The British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books, 1881-1900
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1054
Book Description
Domestic Devotions in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Author: Salvador RyanPublisher: MDPI
ISBN: 3039289136
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Domestic devotion has become an increasingly important area of research in recent years, with the publication of a number of significant studies on the early modern period in particular. This Special Issue aims to build on these works and to expand their range, both geographically and chronologically. This collection focuses on lived religion and the devotional practices found in the domestic settings of late medieval and early modern Europe. More particularly, it investigates the degree to which the experience of personal or familial religious practice in the domestic realm intersected with the more public expression of faith in liturgical or communal settings. Its broad geographical range (spanning northern, southern, central and eastern Europe) includes practices related to Christianity, Judaism and Islam. This Special Issue will be of interest to historians, art historians, medievalists, early modernists, historians of religion, anthropologists and theologians, as well as those interested in the history of material religious culture. It also offers important insights into research areas such as gender studies, histories of the emotions and histories of the senses.
