Style and Consciousness in Middle English Narrative

John M. Ganim

Published by Princeton University Press 1983

Style and Consciousness in Middle English Narrative

John M. Ganim

Volume 120 in the series Princeton Legacy Library

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400855179

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John M. Ganim presents a revised theory of late medieval literary history based on the relationship of the poet to the reader. His work shows how the increasingly compromised exemplary intent of later medieval poets led them to dramatize the reader as a character in the text and to develop complex forms of narrative characterized by discontinuity, distortion, and disorientation.

Originally published in 1983.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 1. Community and Consciousness in Early Middle English Romance Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	16
Chapter 2. Disorientation, Style, and Perception in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
Chapter 3. Consciousness and Time in Troilus and Criseyde Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
Chapter 4. Mannerism and Moralism in Lydgate’s Siege of Thebes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
Chapter 5. The Limits of Vision in Henryson’s Testament of Cresseid Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
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