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Style and Consciousness in Middle English Narrative
By (Author) John M. Ganim
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
23rd September 2014
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
821.1
Paperback
190
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
255g
John M. Ganim presents a revised theory of late medieval literary history based on the relationship of the poet to the reader. His work shows how the increasingly compromised exemplary intent of later medieval poets led them to dramatize the reader as a character in the text and to develop complex forms of narrative characterized by discontinuity,