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PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN-101009223747
ISBN-139781009223744
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Book TitleMatter and Making in Early English Poetry : Literary Production from Chaucer to Sidney
Number of Pages320 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicEuropean / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publication Year2023
IllustratorYes
GenreLiterary Criticism
AuthorTaylor Cowdery
Book SeriesCambridge Studies in Medieval Literature Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Length9.3 in
Item Width6.2 in
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LCCN2022-057057
Reviews'This is an exceptionally perceptive and well-grounded investigation into the poetics and poetic practices of a period whose writers left these things implicit. Cowdery subjects six authors to a forensic and illuminating level of scrutiny that frequently challenges the ways in which they have previously been understood, and does so with impressive lucidity. This is seriously impressive, groundbreaking work.' Jane Griffiths, Associate Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford
Dewey Edition23
Series Volume NumberSeries Number 121
Dewey Decimal821.109
Table Of ContentIntroduction; 1. Words and deeds in Chaucer; 2. Gower and the crying voice; 3. Hoccleve and the force of literature; 4. Lydgate and the surplus of history; 5. Copy, copia and imitation in skelton; 6. Wyatt's Grace.
SynopsisWhat is literature made from? During the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries, this question preoccupied the English court poets, who often claimed that their poems were not original creations, but adaptations of pre-existing materials. Their word for these materials was 'matter,' while the term they used to describe their labor was 'making,' or the act of reworking this matter into a new - but not entirely new - form. By tracing these ideas through the work of six major early poets, this book offers a revisionist literary history of late- medieval and early modern court poetry. It reconstructs premodern theories of making and contrasts them with more modern theories of literary labor, such as 'authorship.' It studies the textual, historical, and philosophical sources that the court tradition used for its matter. Most of all, it demonstrates that the early English court poets drew attention to their source materials as a literary tactic, one that stressed the process by which a poem had been made., What is literature made from? During the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries, this question fascinated English court poets, who often claimed that their poems were not original creations, but adaptations of pre-existing materials. Their word for these materials was 'matter, ' while the term they used to describe their labor was 'making, ' or the act of reworking this matter into a new - but not entirely new - form. By tracing these ideas through the work of six major early poets, this book offers a revisionist literary history of early court poetry. It reconstructs their theories of making and contrasts them with more modern theories of literary labor, such as 'authorship.' It studies the textual, historical, and philosophical sources that these poets used as matter. Most of all, it demonstrates that early court poets drew attention to their source materials for aesthetic reasons, and not because of any lapse in technique., This revisionist literary history of late-medieval and Renaissance poetry offers in-depth analyses of six major poets - Chaucer, Gower, Hoccleve, Lydgate, Skelton, and Wyatt - and reconstructs their ideas about the proper way to write. It sheds new light on the question of what these poets thought literature itself was made from.
LC Classification NumberPR311.C69 2023
