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Voice in Later Medieval English Literature - Public Interiorities (Hardcover)
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Voice in Later Medieval English Literature - Public Interiorities (Hardcover)
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David Lawton approaches later medieval English vernacular culture
in terms of voice. As texts and discourses shift in translation and
in use from one language to another, antecedent texts are revoiced
in ways that recreate them (as 'public interiorities') without
effacing their history or future. The approach yields important
insights into the voice work of late medieval poets, especially
Langland and Chaucer, and also their fifteenth-century successors,
who treat their work as they have treated their precursors. It also
helps illuminate vernacular religious writing and its aspirations,
and it addresses literary and cultural change, such as the effect
of censorship and increasing political instability in and beyond
the fifteenth century. Lawton also proposes his emphasis on voice
as a literary tool of broad application, and his book has a bold
and comparative sweep that encompasses the Pauline letters,
Augustine's Confessions, the classical precedents of Virgil and
Ovid, medieval contemporaries like Machaut and Petrarch,
extra-literary artists like Monteverdi, later poets such as
Wordsworth, Heaney and Paul Valery, and moderns such as Jarry and
Proust. What justifies such parallels, the author claims, is that
late medieval texts constitute the foundation of a literary history
of voice that extends to modernity. The book's energy is therefore
devoted to the transformative reading of later medieval texts, in
order to show their original and ongoing importance as voice work.
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