Writing old age and impairments in late medieval England /
The old speaker in Middle English literature often claims to be impaired because of age. This admission is often followed by narration that directly contradicts it, as speakers, such as the Reeve in Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales' or Amans in Gower's 'Confessio Amantis', p...
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| 言語: | 英語 |
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Leeds :
Arc Humanities Press
[2021]
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| シリーズ: | Borderlines (Leeds, England)
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| オンライン･アクセス: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv1mvw9cf |
目次:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Staves and Stanzas
- Chapter 1. Crooked as a Staff: Narrative, History, and the Disabled Body in Parlement of Thre Ages
- Chapter 2. A Reckoning with Age: Prosthetic Violence and the Reeve
- Chapter 3. The Past is Prologue: Following the Trace of Master Hoccleve
- Chapter 4. Playing Prosthesis and Revising the Past: Gower's Supplemental Role
- Epilogue: Impotence and Textual Healing
- Works Cited
- Index