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Burrow, John A., Medieval Writers and Their Work: Middle English Literature and Its Background (1100-1500), Oxford - Nova York, Oxford University Press, 1982, 148 pp.
- Resum
- J. A. Burrow shows that the literature of authors such as Chaucer, Gower, and Langland is more readily accessible than usually imagined, and well worth reading too. By placing medieval writers in their historical context - the four centuries between the Norman Conquest and the Renaissance - Professor Burrow explains not only how they wrote, but why. This book provides a valuable introduction to the problems which a modern reader encounters when approaching Middle English writings for the first time.
Contents:
* 1. The period and the literature · 1
* 2. Writers, audiences, and readers · 25
* 3. Major genres · 59
* 4. Modes of meaning · 90
* 5. The afterlife of Middle English literature · 125
* Notes · 139
* Bibliography · 147
* Index · 152
- Matèries
- Història de la literatura
Història de la cultura
Anglès
- Notes
- Recensions:
* P. M. Kean a The Review of English Studies, New Series, 36, 141 (1985), 142. Accés per JSTOR: http://www.jstor.org/stable/516756 
2a ed. revisada: 1997; reimpr.: 2008.
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