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Later Medieval English Literature

Gray Douglas
Innbundet / 2008 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780198122180
Published
2008
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Weight
1212 gr
Height
240 mm
Width
170 mm
Thickness
50 mm
Age
UU, 05
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Number of pages
728

Author
Gray Douglas

Biographical note

Douglas Gray was educated at Wellington College and Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. He moved to Oxford in 1954, and spent his academic life there, first as a Fellow of Pembroke College, then from 1980 as the first J. R. R. Tolkein Professor, at Lady Margaret Hall. His numerous publications include The Oxford Book of Late Medieval Verse and Prose (with Norman Davis and others); The Oxford Companion to Chaucer; and the Penguin edition of the Selected Poems of Robert Henryson and William Dunbar.

Later Medieval English Literature

Gray Douglas
Innbundet / 2008 / Engelsk
Gray Douglas
Innbundet / 2008 / Engelsk
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this anthology gives students and scholars an opportunity to learn much about late medieval England firsthand from a principal, but often underrated, medium of communication, the pulpit.

Journal of English and Germanic Philology

The ample vision and copious detail of this book fittingly sums up a distinguished career

Essays in Criticism

generous, deeply thought out, and informed book

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display[s] the qualities for which Douglas Gray's work has long been admired - scholarly excellence, of course, but also a keen and catholic appreciation of many different sorts of medieval writing.

J. A. Burrow, Notes & Queries

The remarkable and diverse literature produced in the fascinating later medieval period - one of war, transitions, and challenges - is not as widely known as it deserves to be. In this descriptive guide the pre-eminent scholar of medieval literature Douglas Gray provides the non-specialist reader with an illuminating account of the extensive literature written in English from the death of Chaucer to the early sixteenth century . Placing the works under consideration in their landscape of cultural history, Gray's survey includes a valuable chronology, an informative introductory survey, and detailed sections on prose, poetry, Scottish writing, and drama.
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A guide to the literature written in English from the death of Chaucer to the early sixteenth century from one of the period's pre-eminent literary scholars. Includes a valuable chronology, an informative introductory survey, and detailed sections on prose, poetry, Scottish writing, and drama.
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I: INTRODUCTION; II: PROSE; III: POETRY; IV: SCOTTISH WRITING; V: DRAMA
Leading scholar of medieval literature presents a comprehensive survery of the literature of the later medieval period Addressed to the non-specialist - jargon free Focuses in detail on the literature itself - and hopes to increase readers' enjoyment of it
Read more
Douglas Gray was educated at Wellington College and Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. He moved to Oxford in 1954, and spent his academic life there, first as a Fellow of Pembroke College, then from 1980 as the first J. R. R. Tolkein Professor, at Lady Margaret Hall. His numerous publications include The Oxford Book of Late Medieval Verse and Prose (with Norman Davis and others); The Oxford Companion to Chaucer; and the Penguin edition of the Selected Poems of Robert Henryson and William Dunbar.
Read more
Leading scholar of medieval literature presents a comprehensive survery of the literature of the later medieval period Addressed to the non-specialist - jargon free Focuses in detail on the literature itself - and hopes to increase readers' enjoyment of it
Read more

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this anthology gives students and scholars an opportunity to learn much about late medieval England firsthand from a principal, but often underrated, medium of communication, the pulpit.

Journal of English and Germanic Philology

The ample vision and copious detail of this book fittingly sums up a distinguished career

Essays in Criticism

generous, deeply thought out, and informed book

Middle English

See all

display[s] the qualities for which Douglas Gray's work has long been admired - scholarly excellence, of course, but also a keen and catholic appreciation of many different sorts of medieval writing.

J. A. Burrow, Notes & Queries

The remarkable and diverse literature produced in the fascinating later medieval period - one of war, transitions, and challenges - is not as widely known as it deserves to be. In this descriptive guide the pre-eminent scholar of medieval literature Douglas Gray provides the non-specialist reader with an illuminating account of the extensive literature written in English from the death of Chaucer to the early sixteenth century . Placing the works under consideration in their landscape of cultural history, Gray's survey includes a valuable chronology, an informative introductory survey, and detailed sections on prose, poetry, Scottish writing, and drama.
Read more
A guide to the literature written in English from the death of Chaucer to the early sixteenth century from one of the period's pre-eminent literary scholars. Includes a valuable chronology, an informative introductory survey, and detailed sections on prose, poetry, Scottish writing, and drama.
Read more
I: INTRODUCTION; II: PROSE; III: POETRY; IV: SCOTTISH WRITING; V: DRAMA
Leading scholar of medieval literature presents a comprehensive survery of the literature of the later medieval period Addressed to the non-specialist - jargon free Focuses in detail on the literature itself - and hopes to increase readers' enjoyment of it
Read more
Douglas Gray was educated at Wellington College and Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. He moved to Oxford in 1954, and spent his academic life there, first as a Fellow of Pembroke College, then from 1980 as the first J. R. R. Tolkein Professor, at Lady Margaret Hall. His numerous publications include The Oxford Book of Late Medieval Verse and Prose (with Norman Davis and others); The Oxford Companion to Chaucer; and the Penguin edition of the Selected Poems of Robert Henryson and William Dunbar.
Read more
Leading scholar of medieval literature presents a comprehensive survery of the literature of the later medieval period Addressed to the non-specialist - jargon free Focuses in detail on the literature itself - and hopes to increase readers' enjoyment of it
Read more

Product details

ISBN
9780198122180
Published
2008
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Weight
1212 gr
Height
240 mm
Width
170 mm
Thickness
50 mm
Age
UU, 05
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Number of pages
728

Author
Gray Douglas

Biographical note

Douglas Gray was educated at Wellington College and Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. He moved to Oxford in 1954, and spent his academic life there, first as a Fellow of Pembroke College, then from 1980 as the first J. R. R. Tolkein Professor, at Lady Margaret Hall. His numerous publications include The Oxford Book of Late Medieval Verse and Prose (with Norman Davis and others); The Oxford Companion to Chaucer; and the Penguin edition of the Selected Poems of Robert Henryson and William Dunbar.

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