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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,



Table of Contents
*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*Acknowledgments, pg. ix*Introduction, pg. 1*Chapter 1. Community and Consciousness in Early Middle English Romance, pg. 16*Chapter 2. Disorientation, Style, and Perception in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, pg. 55*Chapter 3. Consciousness and Time in Troilus and Criseyde, pg. 79*Chapter 4. Mannerism and Moralism in Lydgate's Siege of Thebes, pg. 103*Chapter 5. The Limits of Vision in Henryson's Testament of Cresseid, pg. 123*Epilogue, pg. 142*Notes, pg. 155*Index, pg. 173

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      Publisher: Princeton University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 14/07/2014
      ISBN13: 9780691613116, 978-0691613116
      ISBN10: 0691613117

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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,



      Table of Contents
      *FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*Acknowledgments, pg. ix*Introduction, pg. 1*Chapter 1. Community and Consciousness in Early Middle English Romance, pg. 16*Chapter 2. Disorientation, Style, and Perception in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, pg. 55*Chapter 3. Consciousness and Time in Troilus and Criseyde, pg. 79*Chapter 4. Mannerism and Moralism in Lydgate's Siege of Thebes, pg. 103*Chapter 5. The Limits of Vision in Henryson's Testament of Cresseid, pg. 123*Epilogue, pg. 142*Notes, pg. 155*Index, pg. 173

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