This book investigates how subjectivity is encoded in the texts of a wide variety of medieval narratives and lyrics - not how they express the subjectivity of individuals, but how subjectivity, escaping the bounds of individuality, is incorporated in...
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This book investigates how subjectivity is encoded in the texts of a wide variety of medieval narratives and lyrics - not how they express the subjectivity of individuals, but how subjectivity, escaping the bounds of individuality, is incorporated in the linguistic fabric of their texts. Most of the poems discussed are in English, and the book includes analyses of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, Man of Law's Tale, and Complaint Unto Pity, the works of thePearl poet, Havelok the Dane, the lyric sequence attributed to Charles of Orleans (the earliest such sequence in English), and many anonymous
Includes bibliographical references (p. [248]-266) and index
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Contents; 1. Subjectivity and Textuality; 2. Romances; 3. Troilus and Criseyde; 4. The Man of Law's Tale; 5. Narration in the Pearl Poet; 6. Lyrics; 7. Epistolary Poems; Bibliography; Index