Hochon's arrow : the social imagination of fourteenth-century texts

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Hochon's arrow : the social imagination of fourteenth-century texts

Title remainder

the social imagination of fourteenth-century texts

Statement of responsibility

Paul Strohm ; with an appendix by A.J. Prescott

Creator

• Strohm, Paul, 1938-

Author

• Strohm, Paul, 1938-

Subject

• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• England
• England -- Social conditions -- 1066-1485
• English literature -- Middle English
• English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism
• History
• LITERARY CRITICISM -- European | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
• Literature and society
• Literature and society -- England -- History -- To 1500
• Political and social views
• Social conditions
• Social history -- Medieval
• Social history -- Medieval, 500-1500
• Social problems in literature
• Social problems in literature
• To 1500
• Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
• Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 -- Political and social views

Genre

• History
• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

Summary

"The paradox of the lie that might as well be true," writes Paul Strohm, "must interest anyone who seeks to understand texts in history or the historical influence of texts." In these seven essays, all recent and most published here for the first time, the author examines historical and literary texts from fourteenth-century England. He not only demonstrates the fictionality of narrative and documentary sources, but also argues that these fictions are themselves fully historical. Together the essays institute a dialogue between texts and events that restores historical documents and literary works to their larger environments. Strohm begins by inspecting legal records that accuse Hochon of Liverpool in 1384 of threatening to shoot an arrow at a political adversary urinating against a wall, and shows how the text embodies and interconnects language, social space, and historical interpretation itself. Throughout his analyses, which cover such topics as Chaucer's verses on the accession of Henry IV, Froissart's account of Queen Philippa interceding for the burghers of Calais, and Thomas Usk's accusations against John Northampton, Strohm alerts us to the distortions of textuality itself while challenging our notions of "invented" and "true."Originally published in 1992. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905

Member of

• Princeton paperbacks

Cataloging source

E7B

Dewey number

820.9/001

Index

index present

Language note

In English

LC call number

PR275.S63

LC item number

S76 1992eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

• Princeton legacy library
• Princeton paperbacks