Life in Words : : Essays on Chaucer, the Gawain-Poet, and Malory / / Jill Mann.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Pilot 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Mann, Jill,
• TeilnehmendeR: Rasmussen, Mark
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (400 p.)

This volume collects fifteen landmark essays published over the last three decades by the distinguished medievalist Jill Mann. Bringing together her essays on Chaucer, the Gawain-poet, and Malory, the collection foregrounds the common interest in the semantic implications of key vocabulary such as "authority," "adventure," and "price" that links them together.Mann, one of the finest critics of Middle English literature in her generation, uses the concepts suggested by the language of medieval literature itself as a way into the masterpieces of Middle English, including The Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and the Morte Darthur.An extended introduction by Mark Rasmussen brings out the nature of the themes that run through the collection, analyses the critical methods in play, and assesses their significance in the context of Middle English studies over the last thirty years.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Author's Preface -- A Note on References -- Abbreviations -- List of Essays, with Places of Original Publication -- Introduction. Jill Mann's Patience -- Chapter One. Troilus's Swoon -- Chapter Two. Shakespeare and Chaucer: "What is Criseyde Worth?" -- Chapter Three. Chance and Destiny in Troilus and Criseyde and the Knight's Tale -- Chapter Four. Chaucerian Themes and Style in the Franklin's Tale -- Chapter Five. Anger and "Glosynge" in the Canterbury Tales -- Chapter Six. The Authority of the Audience in Chaucer -- Chapter Seven. Parents and Children in the Canterbury Tales -- Chapter Eight. Satisfaction and Payment in Middle English Literature -- Chapter Nine. Price and Value in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight -- Chapter Ten. Courtly Aesthetics and Courtly Ethics in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight -- Chapter Eleven. Sir Gawain and the Romance Hero -- Chapter Twelve. Knightly Combat in Malory's Morte d'Arthur -- Chapter Thirteen. "Taking the Adventure": Malory and the Suite du Merlin -- Chapter Fourteen. The Narrative of Distance, The Distance of Narrative in Malory's Morte d'Arthur -- Chapter Fifteen. Malory and the Grail Legend -- Bibliography -- Index