Title Theory and the premodern text / Paul Strohm

Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2000

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 269 pages) Series Medieval cultures ; v. 26 Medieval cultures ; v. 26. Contents Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I: SPACE, SYMBOLIZATION, AND SOCIAL PRACTICE; 1. Three London Itineraries: Aesthetic Purity and the Composing Process; 2. Walking Fire: Symbolization, Action, and Lollard Burning; 3. Coronation as Legible Practice; PART II: TIME AND NARRATIVE; 4. "Lad with Revel to Newegate": Chaucerian Narrative and Historical Metanarrative; 5. Fictions of Time and Origin: Friar Huberd and the Lepers; 6. Chaucer's Troilus as Temporal Archive; PART III: READING THE HISTORICAL TEXT; 7. Prohibiting History: Capgrave and the Death of Richard II 8. Trade, Treason, and the Murder of Janus Imperial9. Shakespeare's Oldcastle: Another Ill-Framed Knight; 10. Postmodernism and History; PART IV: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND MEDIEVAL STUDIES; 11. What Can We Know about Chaucer That He Didn't Know about Himself?; 12. John's Locked Box: Kingship and the Management of Desire; 13. Mellyagant's Primal Scene; Notes; Indexes; Protagonists, Events, and Selected Medieval Texts; Commentators, Theorists, and Selected Texts; Theoretical Concepts Summary Insisting on the imaginative multiplicity of the text, Strohm finds in theory an augmentation of interpretive possibilities--an augmentation that sometimes requires respectful disagreement with what a work says--or seems to want known--about itself. Coupled with this strategic disrespect is a new and amplified form of respect--for the text as a meaning-making system, for its unruly power and its unpredictable effects in the world Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes Notes Print version record Subject Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 -- Criticism and interpretation Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Histories. SUBJECT Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 fast Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 fast Subject English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc Literature and history -- England -- History -- To 1500 Literature and history -- England -- History -- 16th century Historical drama, English -- History and criticism Civilization, Medieval, in literature. Kings and rulers in literature. Rhetoric, Medieval. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Chronicle plays of William Shakespeare Civilization, Medieval, in literature Historical drama, English Kings and rulers in literature Literature Literature and history Rhetoric, Medieval SUBJECT London (England) -- In literature Subject England England -- London Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780816692651 0816692653

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