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Renewed interest in aesthetics, in form, and the idea of the literary has led some scholars to announce the arrival of a "new formalism," but the provisional histories of such a critical rebirth tend to begin well after the beginning, paying scant attention to medieval literary scholarship, much less the Middle Ages. The essays in Answerable Style: The Idea of the Literary in Medieval England offer a collective rebuke to the assumption that any such aesthetic turn can succeed without careful attention to the history and criticism of "the medieval literary." Taking as their touchstone the influential work of Anne Middleton, whose searching explorations of the dialectical intersection of form and history in Middle English writing lie at the heart of the medievalist's literary critical enterprise, the essays in this volume address the medieval idea of the literary, with special focus on the poetry of Chaucer, Langland, and Gower. The essays, by a notable array of medievalists, range from the "contact zones" between clerical culture and vernacular writing, to manuscript study and its effects on the modalities of "persona" and voicing, to the history of emotion as a basis for new litera

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Author

Frank Grady and Andrew Galloway

Publisher

The Ohio State University Press

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780814212073

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities