Literary Theory and Criticism in the Later Middle Ages: Interpretation, Invention, Imagination - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1108492398 ISBN 13: 9781108492393

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2023

Synopsis

This collection makes a new, profound and far-reaching intervention into the rich yet little-explored terrain between Latin scholastic theory and vernacular literature. Written by a multidisciplinary team of leading international authors, the chapters honour and advance Alastair Minnis's field-defining scholarship. A wealth of expert essays refract the nuances of theory through the medium of authoritative Latin and vernacular medieval texts, providing fresh interpretative treatment to known canonical works while also bringing unknown materials to light.

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About the Authors

Ardis Butterfield is Marie Borroff Professor of English and Professor of French and Music at Yale University. Her books include Poetry and Music in Medieval France (Cambridge University Press, 2002) and The Familiar Enemy: Chaucer, Language and Nation in the Hundred Years War (2009), which won the R. H. Gapper prize for French Studies.

Ian Johnson is Professor of Medieval Literature and Head of the School of English at the University of St Andrews. The author of The Middle English Life of Christ: Academic Discourse, Translation and Vernacular Theology (2013), he edited Geoffrey Chaucer in Context, (Cambridge University Press, 2019), recognised as a 2020 Choice Outstanding Academic Title, and, with Alastair Minnis, The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, ii, The Middle Ages (Cambridge University Press, 2005).

Andrew Kraebel is Associate Professor of English at Trinity University, Texas. He is the author of Biblical Commentary and Translation in Later Medieval England: Experiments in Interpretation (Cambridge University Press, 2020), which was awarded the Ecclesiastical History Society's book prize.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1108492398
• ISBN 13: 9781108492393
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 300
• Editor: Butterfield Ardis, Johnson Ian, Kraebel Andrew