The Resource Medieval autographies : the "I" of the text, A.C. Spearing
Medieval autographies : the "I" of the text, A.C. Spearing
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- Summary
- "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 interventions in and commentaries on third-person narratives, and descendants of the dit, a genre of French medieval poetry. He argues that autography arose as a means of liberation from the requirement to tell stories with preordained conclusions and as a way of achieving a closer relation to lived experience, with all its unpredictability and inconsistencies. Autographies, he claims, are marked by a cluster of characteristics including a correspondence to the texture of life as it is experienced, a montage-like unpredictability of structure, and a concern with writing and textuality. Beginning with what may be the earliest extended first-person narrative in Middle English, Winner and Waster, the book examines instances of the dit as discussed by French scholars, analyzes Chaucer's Wife of Bath's Prologue as a textual performance, and devotes separate chapters to detailed readings of Hoccleve's Regement of Princes prologue, his Complaint and Dialogue, and the witty first-person elements in Osbern Bokenham's legends of saints. An afterword suggests possible further applications of the concept of autography, including discussion of the intermittent autographic commentaries on the narrative in Troilus and Criseyde and Capgrave's Life of Saint Katherine."--Project Muse
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (viii, 347 pages)
- Contents
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- Preface
- 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
- Isbn
- 9780268158439
- Label
- Medieval autographies : the "I" of the text
- Title
- Medieval autographies
- Title remainder
- the "I" of the text
- Statement of responsibility
- A.C. Spearing
- Subject
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- Autobiografie
- Autobiographie -- Dans la littérature
- Autobiography in literature
- Autobiography in literature
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- English literature -- Middle English
- English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism
- First person narrative
- First person narrative
- Ich-Erzählung
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- European | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- European | French
- Literatur
- Littérature anglaise -- 1100-1500 (moyen anglais) -- Histoire et critique
- Mittelenglisch
- Narration à la première personne
- 1100 - 1500
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "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 interventions in and commentaries on third-person narratives, and descendants of the dit, a genre of French medieval poetry. He argues that autography arose as a means of liberation from the requirement to tell stories with preordained conclusions and as a way of achieving a closer relation to lived experience, with all its unpredictability and inconsistencies. Autographies, he claims, are marked by a cluster of characteristics including a correspondence to the texture of life as it is experienced, a montage-like unpredictability of structure, and a concern with writing and textuality. Beginning with what may be the earliest extended first-person narrative in Middle English, Winner and Waster, the book examines instances of the dit as discussed by French scholars, analyzes Chaucer's Wife of Bath's Prologue as a textual performance, and devotes separate chapters to detailed readings of Hoccleve's Regement of Princes prologue, his Complaint and Dialogue, and the witty first-person elements in Osbern Bokenham's legends of saints. An afterword suggests possible further applications of the concept of autography, including discussion of the intermittent autographic commentaries on the narrative in Troilus and Criseyde and Capgrave's Life of Saint Katherine."--Project Muse
- Cataloging source
- AZK
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Spearing, A. C
- Dewey number
- 820.9/35
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PR275.F57
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Conway lectures in medieval studies
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- English literature
- First person narrative
- Autobiography in literature
- LITERARY CRITICISM
- LITERARY CRITICISM
- Autobiography in literature
- English literature
- First person narrative
- Mittelenglisch
- Literatur
- Autobiografie
- Ich-Erzählung
- Littérature anglaise
- Narration à la première personne
- Autobiographie
- Label
- Medieval autographies : the "I" of the text, A.C. Spearing
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Preface -- 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
- Control code
- 961556101
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (viii, 347 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780268158439
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- c
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctvpgjc5d
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)961556101
- Label
- Medieval autographies : the "I" of the text, A.C. Spearing
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Preface -- 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
- Control code
- 961556101
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (viii, 347 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780268158439
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctvpgjc5d
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)961556101
Subject
- Autobiografie
- Autobiographie -- Dans la littérature
- Autobiography in literature
- Autobiography in literature
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- English literature -- Middle English
- English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism
- First person narrative
- First person narrative
- Ich-Erzählung
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- European | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- European | French
- Literatur
- Littérature anglaise -- 1100-1500 (moyen anglais) -- Histoire et critique
- Mittelenglisch
- Narration à la première personne
- 1100 - 1500
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