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The Grounds of English Literature (Paperback)
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The Grounds of English Literature (Paperback)
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The centuries just after the Norman Conquest are the forgotten
period of English literary history. In fact, the years 1066-1300
witnessed an unparalleled ingenuity in the creation of written
forms, for this was a time when almost every writer was unaware of
the existence of other English writing. In a series of detailed
readings of the more important early Middle English works, Cannon
shows how the many and varied texts of the period laid the
foundations for the project of English literature. This richness is
given credit for the first time in these readings by means of an
innovative theory of literary form that accepts every written shape
as itself a unique contribution to the history of ideas. This
theory also suggests that the impoverished understanding of
literature we now commonly employ is itself a legacy of this early
period, an attribute of the single form we have learned to call
'romance'. A number of reading methods have lately taught us to be
more generous in our understandings of what literature might be,
but this book shows us that the very variety we now strive to
embrace anew actually formed the grounds of English literature-a
richness we only lost when we forgot how to recognize it.
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