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Style and Consciousness in Middle English Narrative
By (Author) John M. Ganim
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
821.1
Hardback
190
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
425g
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,