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- catalog abstract ""Absent Narratives, Manuscript Textuality, and Literary Structure in Late Medieval England is a book about the defining difference between medieval and modern stories. In chapters devoted to the major writers of the late medieval period - Chaucer, Gower, the Gawain-poet and Malory - it presents and then analyzes a set of unique and unnoticed phenomena in medieval narrative, namely the persistent appearance of missing stories: stories implied, alluded to, or fragmented by a larger narrative. Far from being trivial digressions or passing curiosities, these "absent narratives" prove central to the way these medieval works function and to why they have affected readers in particular ways. Traditionally unseen, ignored, or explained away by critics, absent narratives offer a valuable new strategy for reading medieval texts and the historically specific textual culture in which they were written."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12563741.
- catalog created "2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2002.".
- catalog description ""Absent Narratives, Manuscript Textuality, and Literary Structure in Late Medieval England is a book about the defining difference between medieval and modern stories. In chapters devoted to the major writers of the late medieval period - Chaucer, Gower, the Gawain-poet and Malory - it presents and then analyzes a set of unique and unnoticed phenomena in medieval narrative, namely the persistent appearance of missing stories: stories implied, alluded to, or fragmented by a larger narrative. Far from being trivial digressions or passing curiosities, these "absent narratives" prove central to the way these medieval works function and to why they have affected readers in particular ways.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-275) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: Absent narratives and the textual culture of the late Middle Ages -- The wanting words of Sir Gawain and the green knight -- Remembering Canacee, forgetting incest: reading the "Squire's tale" -- Chaucer's family romance: the "Knight's tale" as primal scene -- "Hic quasi in persona aliorum": the lover's repression and Gower's Confessio amantis -- The death of the Arthur -- Conclusion: The agency of Medieval narrative.".
- catalog description "Traditionally unseen, ignored, or explained away by critics, absent narratives offer a valuable new strategy for reading medieval texts and the historically specific textual culture in which they were written."--Jacket.".
- catalog extent "xix, 284 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0312240430".
- catalog isPartOf "New Middle Ages (Palgrave (Firm))".
- catalog isPartOf "The new Middle Ages".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Palgrave,".
- catalog spatial "England.".
- catalog subject "820.9/001 21".
- catalog subject "Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 Technique.".
- catalog subject "English literature Middle English, 1100-1500 Criticism, Textual.".
- catalog subject "English literature Middle English, 1100-1500 History and criticism.)".
- catalog subject "Manuscripts, Medieval England.".
- catalog subject "Narration (Rhetoric) History To 1500.".
- catalog subject "PR275.N27 .S27 2002".
- catalog subject "Rhetoric, Medieval.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: Absent narratives and the textual culture of the late Middle Ages -- The wanting words of Sir Gawain and the green knight -- Remembering Canacee, forgetting incest: reading the "Squire's tale" -- Chaucer's family romance: the "Knight's tale" as primal scene -- "Hic quasi in persona aliorum": the lover's repression and Gower's Confessio amantis -- The death of the Arthur -- Conclusion: The agency of Medieval narrative.".
- catalog title "Absent narratives, manuscript textuality, and literary structure in late medieval England / Elizabeth Scala.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".