Mary J Carruthers (52 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Published by Pilgrim Books, 1982. Octavo. Book is very good with light toning to the page ends. Dust jacket is very good with price strikers on the front flap, and back cover, and a small tear to the spine. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.…

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Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Volume XXXVI, Number 2. P. 258-424. Printed pink and white wrappers. Crease on the rear wrap with a slightly sunned spine, near fine. Essays, memoir, fiction, poetry and more with contributions by Seamus Heaney, Elizabeth Spencer, Mary J. Carruthers, Jonathan Chaves, Jay Parini, Louis Simpson, Gail Mazur, Dean Flower, Vernon Young, Donald E. Stanford, William H. Pritchard, and more. …

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Softcover/Paperback. Condition: Fine. This book articulates a new approach to medieval aesthetic values emphasizing the sensory and emotional basis of all medieval arts their love of play and fine craftsmanship of puzzles and of strong contrasts. Written for a general educated audience as well as students and scholars in thefield it offers an understanding of medieval literature and art that is rooted in the perceptions and feelings of ordinary life made up of play and laughter as well as serious work. | Pages: 0.…

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Hardcover with dust jacket. Condition: Gut. XI, 385 p. Schutzumschlag berieben und mit leichten Randläsuren, sonst ein gutes und sauberes Exemplar / Dust jacket rubbed and with slight edge wear, otherwise a good and clean copy. - Contents Preface: "As Myn Auctour Seyde, So Seye I" PART ONE The Problem of Interpretation Sir Gawain and the Red Herring: The Perils of Interpretation Robert W. Hanning, Columbia University Synne Horrible: The Pardoner's Exegesis of His Tale, and Chaucer's H. Marshall Leicester, Jr., University of California, Santa Cruz PART TWO The Transmission of the Text The Poet as Reviser: The Metamorphosis of the Confession o the Seven Deadly Sins in Piers Plowman George H. Russell, University of Melbourne Translation from Old English: "The Garbaging War-Hawk," or The Literal Materials from Which the Reader Can Re-create the Poem Eric Stanley, University of Oxford PART THREE The Textual Plane What Comes After Chaucer's But: Adversative Construction in Spenser Judith H. Anderson, Indiana University The Grain of the Text Derek Brewer, Emmanuel College, Cambridge University Beowulf Comes Home: Close Reading in Epic Context Edward B. Irving, Jr., University of Pennsylvania ACTS OF INTERPRETATION PART FOUR The Stylistic and Iconographic Context An ABC to the Style of the Prioress Alfred David, Indiana University Pearl's "Maynful Mone": Crux, Simile, and Structure Marie Borroff, Yale University PART FIVE The Intellectual Context Time, Apocalypse, and the Plot of Piers Plowman Mary J. Carruthers, University of Illinois at Chicago The Franklin's Tale: A Story of Unanswered Questions Morton W. Bloomfield, Harvard University PART SIX The Social Context Margery Kempe in Jerusalem: Hysterica Compassio in the Late Middle Ages Hope Phyllis Weissman, Wesleyan University "Ore pure parler del array de une graunt mangereye": The Culture of the "Newe Get," Circa 1285 Constance B. Hieatt, University of Western Ontario PART SEVEN Courtly Love Chaucer, Love Poetry, and Romantic Love George Kane, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill "Paradis Stood Formed in Hire Yën": Courtly Love and Chaucer's Re-Vision of Dante Elizabeth D. Kirk, Brown University PART EIGHT Genre and Convention Troilus and Criseyde: Poet and Narrator Elizabeth Salter, University of York A Note on Gower's Persona Paul Strohm, Indiana University Morwe of May: A Season of Feminine Ambiguity Eleanor W. Leach, Indiana University The Intangible and Its Image: Allegorical Discourse and th Cast of Everyman Carolynn Van Dyke, Lafayette College PART NINE The Uses of Literature More, Castiglione, and the Humanist Choice of Utopias Richard A. Lanham, University of California, Los Angele The Existential Mysteries as Treated in Certain Passages of Our Older Poets John C. Pope, Yale University PART TEN E. Talbot Donaldson Speaking of Donaldson E. Talbot Donaldson: Curriculum Vitae and Publications Index. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. No Dust Jacket. No Edition Stated. 6.4 X 0.9 X 9.5 inches; 317 pages; minor, erased faint price markings on FFEP. Minor bumps to the cover corners. Minor scratches and faint smudges to the exterior edges of textblock. Very Good condition otherwise. No other noteworthy defects. No markings. ; - Your satisfaction is our priority. We offer free returns and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your item will be carefully cushioned in bubble wrap and securely boxed. All orders ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence.…

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - The Craft of Thought, first published in 1998, is a companion to Mary Carruthers' earlier study of memory in medieval culture, The Book of Memory. This more recent volume examines medieval monastic meditation as a discipline for making thoughts, and discusses its influence on literature, art, and architecture. In a process akin to today's 'creative' thinking, or 'cognition', this discipline recognises the essential roles of imagination and emotion in meditation. Deriving examples from a variety of late antique and medieval sources, with excursions into modern architectural memorials, this study emphasises meditation as an act of literary composition or invention, the techniques of which notably involved both words and making mental 'pictures' for thinking and composing.…

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