"Middle English."
Autor: Paul Strohm, "Middle English."
Publisher: Oxford University Press| ISBN: 0322658947 | 2007 edition | PDF | 534 Pages | 3.36 MB
Publisher: Oxford University Press| ISBN: 0322658947 | 2007 edition | PDF | 534 Pages | 3.36 MB
A publishing surge of the last twenty years has filled our shelves with ‘companions’, volumes designed to equip their readers with up-to-date and convenient surveys of the current state of knowledge about literary periods and major authors. Like many fellow teachers and researchers, I have previously ridden this wave. Here, now, is a volume that might look like one more ‘companion’ or its close kin. Its aspirations are, however, considerably—perhaps even completely—different. A companion or a handbook promises, at least by implication, to provide authoritative information, an accounting of what is ‘known’ and agreed upon by seasoned scholars in the field. By contrast, this volume seeks to enter the zone of the not-yet known, the less-than fully understood. Its contributors were asked to avoid settled consensus in favour of unresolved debate, to prefer the emergent, the unfinalized, the yet-to-be done.