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Christopher Cannon

From Literacy to Literature: England, 1300-1400

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The first lessons we learn in school can stay with us all our lives, but this was nowhere more true than in the last decades of the fourteenth century when grammar-school students were not only learning to read and write, but understanding, for the first time, that their mother tongue, English, was grammatical. The efflorescence of Ricardian poetry was not a direct result of this change, but it was everywhere shaped by it. This book characterizes this closeconnection between literacy training and literature, as it is manifest in the fine and ambitious poetry by Gower, Langland and Chaucer, at this transitional moment. This is also a book abou… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-19-108483-6
  • EAN: 9780191084836
  • Produktnummer: 21112550
  • Verlag: Oxford University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
  • Seitenangabe: 256 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 810 KB
  • Abbildungen: 2 B&W Illustrations

Über den Autor


Christopher Cannon was educated at Harvard, and has taught at UCLA, Oxford, Cambridge and, now, at NYU. He has written books on the traditional nature of Chaucer's language, early Middle English and literary form, as well as a cultural history of Middle English. He has held several fellowships from the UK's Arts and Humanities Research Council , a Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, and he recently won the William Riley Parker Prize from the MLA. He iscurrently collaborating with James Simpson on a revised edition of the works of Geoffrey Chaucer for OUP.

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