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Last Words: The Public Self and the Social Author in Late Medieval England

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Last Words: The Public Self and the Social Author in Late Medieval England - Sobecki, Sebastian
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No medieval text was designed to be read hundreds of years later by an audience unfamiliar with its language, situation, and author. By ascribing to these texts intentional anonymity, we romanticise them and misjudge the social character of their authors. Instead, most medieval poems and manuscripts presuppose familiarity with their authorial or scribal maker. Last Words: The Public Self and the Social Author in Late Medieval England attempts to recover this familiarity and understand the literary motivation behind some of ...

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Last Words: The Public Self and the Social Author in Late Medieval England 2019, Oxford University Press, Oxford

ISBN-13: 9780198790778

Hardcover

Last Words: The Public Self and the Social Author in Late Medieval England 2019, Oxford University Press, Oxford

ISBN-13: 9780198790785

Paperback