SunHee
Kim Gertz.
Chaucer to Shakespeare, 1337-1580.
Basingstoke:
Palgrave,
2001.
272pp.
Publisher's
recommended price
Hardback
ISBN:0333721985, £45.00
Paperback
ISBN:0333721993, £14.99
In the
250 years
introduced here, literature reflects key transitions, embedded as it is
in far-reaching political, religious and socio-economic
transformations.
This volume tracks some of the resulting tensions in various genres,
especially
those that re-integrate or respond to the traditional. Such literature
is examined by using the tools of rhetoric and semiotics, interpreting
from the author-audience axis and focusing on dissonant markers in
canonical
as well as in less well-known narratives.
SunHee
Kim Gertz
looks at the history and culture of the era in order to contextualise
the
work she examines, including Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The
Book of Margery Kempe, Le Morte D'Arthur and A
Midsummer
Night's Dream. Offering a refreshing new perspective on a period of
rich literary output, that students often find difficult to engage,
this
will prove a welcome guide and critical companion.
Contents:
Introduction;
Authors and Audiences in Transition; Training, Religion, and Treatises;
Drama; History and Literature; Narrative and Lyric Poetry; Conclusion;
Glossary; Annotated Bibliography for Suggested Reading; Chronology;
Works
Cited; Index.
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