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Traditions and Innovations in the Study of Medieval English Literature - The Influence of Derek Brewer (Hardcover, New)
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Traditions and Innovations in the Study of Medieval English Literature - The Influence of Derek Brewer (Hardcover, New)
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Essays on the many key aspects of medieval literature, reflecting
the significant impact of Professor Derek Brewer. Derek Brewer
(1923-2008) was one of the most influential medievalists of the
twentieth century, first through his own publications and teaching,
and later as the founder of his own academic publishing firm. His
working life of some sixty years, from the late 1940s to the 2000s,
saw enormous advances in the study of Chaucer and of Arthurian
romance, and of medieval literature more generally. He was in the
forefront of such changes, and his understandings ofChaucer and of
Malory remain at the core of the modern critical mainstream. Essays
in this collection take their starting point from his ideas and
interests, before offering their own fresh thinking in those key
areas of medieval studies in which he pioneered innovations which
remain central: Chaucer's knight and knightly virtues;
class-distinction; narrators and narrative time; lovers and loving
in medieval romance; ideals of feminine beauty; love,friendship and
masculinities; medieval laughter; symbolic stories, the nature of
romance, and the ends of storytelling; the wholeness of Malory's
Morte Darthur; modern study of the medieval material book;
Chaucer's poetic language and modern dictionaries; and Chaucerian
afterlives. This collection builds towards an intellectual profile
of a modern medievalist, cumulatively registering how the potential
of Derek Brewer's work is being reinterpreted and is renewing
itself now and into the future of medieval studies. Charlotte
Brewer is Professor of English Language and Literature at Oxford
University and a Fellow of Hertford College, Oxford; Barry Windeatt
is Professor of English in the University of Cambridge and a Fellow
of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Contributors: Elizabeth Archibald,
Charlotte Brewer, Mary Carruthers, Christopher Cannon, Helen
Cooper, A.S.G. Edwards, Jill Mann, Alastair Minnis, Derek Pearsall,
Corinne Saunders, James Simpson, A.C. Spearing, Jacqueline
Tasioulas, Robert Yeager, Barry Windeatt.
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