Socioliterary Practice in Late Medieval England
- Author / Editor
- Barr, Helen.
Socioliterary Practice in Late Medieval England
- Published
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2001.
- Physical Description
- viii, 229 pp.
- Description
- Seven interrelated studies and an afterword that explore "socioliterary practice," considering literature as a material form of social behavior in "internal and dialectical relationship" with the institutions and conventions that shape it and that it helps to shape. Topics include "Pearl," "Wynnere and Wastoure," Hoccleve's "To Sir John Oldcastle," Gower's "Tripartite Chronicle," Wycliffite writings, "The Boke of Cupide," "Mum and the Sothsegger," Lydgate's "The Churl and the Bird," and several works by Chaucer. An exploration of "social semantics," ManT "shows explicitly that literary language is a material form of social practice." With diction similar to that of more controversial texts, LGWP is about the policing of "orders of discourse." Engaging the uprisings of 1381, NPT is a radical, vernacular reflection of the struggle for social representation and empowerment.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- Legend of Good Women.
- Manciple and His Tale.
- Nun's Priest and His Tale.