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"In Medieval Autographies, A. C. Spearing develops a new engagement of narrative theory with medieval English first-person writing, focusing on the roles and functions of the "I" as a shifting textual phenomenon, not to be defined either as autobiographical or as the label of a fictio...
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| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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The Conway lectures in medieval studies
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"In Medieval Autographies, A. C. Spearing develops a new engagement of narrative theory with medieval English first-person writing, focusing on the roles and functions of the "I" as a shifting textual phenomenon, not to be defined either as autobiographical or as the label of a fictional speaker or narrator. Spearing identifies and explores a previously unrecognized category of medieval English poetry, calling it "autography." He describes this form as emerging in the mid-fourteenth century and consisting of extended nonlyrical writings in the first person, embracing prologues, authorial int |
| Carrier Form: | viii, 347 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-332) and index. |
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9780268017828 (pbk. : alk. paper) : 0268017824 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780268092801 (ebook) 026809280X (ebook) |
| Index Number: | PR275 |
| CLC: | I561.063 |
| Call Number: | I561.063/S741 |
| Contents: | The textual first person -- Autography: prologues and dits -- Chaucerian prologues and The wife of Bath -- Why autography? -- Hoccleve and the prologue -- Hoccleve's series -- Bokenham's autographies -- Afterword. |