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From Literacy to Literature Christopher Cannon (Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of English and Classics, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of English and Classics, Johns Hopkins University)

From Literacy to Literature par Christopher Cannon (Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of English and Classics, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of English and Classics, Johns Hopkins University)

From Literacy to Literature Christopher Cannon (Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of English and Classics, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of English and Classics, Johns Hopkins University)

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From Literacy to Literature: England, 1300-1400 is a cultural history that draws a line between canonical Ricardian writers and the school-books of their time.

From Literacy to Literature Résumé

From Literacy to Literature: England, 1300-1400 Christopher Cannon (Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of English and Classics, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of English and Classics, Johns Hopkins University)

The first lessons we learn in school can stay with us all our lives, but this was nowhere more true than in the last decades of the fourteenth century when grammar-school students were not only learning to read and write, but understanding, for the first time, that their mother tongue, English, was grammatical. The efflorescence of Ricardian poetry was not a direct result of this change, but it was everywhere shaped by it. This book characterizes this close connection between literacy training and literature, as it is manifest in the fine and ambitious poetry by Gower, Langland and Chaucer, at this transitional moment. This is also a book about the way medieval training in grammar (or grammatica) shaped the poetic arts in the Middle Ages fully as much as rhetorical training. It answers the curious question of what language was used to teach Latin grammar to the illiterate. It reveals, for the first time, what the surviving schoolbooks from the period actually contain. It describes what form a 'grammar school' took in a period from which no school buildings or detailed descriptions survive. And it scrutinizes the processes of elementary learning with sufficient care to show that, for the grown medieval schoolboy, well-learned books functioned, not only as a touchstone for wisdom, but as a knowledge so personal and familiar that it was equivalent to what we would now call 'experience'.

From Literacy to Literature Avis

Cannon's book has done much, as far as the implications for Middle English are concerned. It will feature in debate on the significance of elementary education for the creation of English literature, for many a year to come. * Alastair Minnis, Spenser Review *
Cannon's argument may be intuitive, but it is original with him, and this original and compelling book has the potential to reorient how we think about late medieval poetry. * Tim William Machan (University of Notre Dame), The Modern Language Review *

À propos de Christopher Cannon (Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of English and Classics, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of English and Classics, Johns Hopkins University)

Christopher Cannon was educated at Harvard, and has taught at UCLA, Oxford, Cambridge, NYU, and now at Johns Hopkins University. He has written books on the traditional nature of Chaucer's language, early Middle English and literary form, as well as a cultural history of Middle English. He has held several fellowships from the UK's Arts and Humanities Research Council, a Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, and he recently won the William Riley Parker Prize from the MLA. He is the author of From Literacy to Literature (Oxford University Press, 2016), Middle English Literature: A Cultural History (2008), The Grounds of English Literature (2004), and The Making of Chaucer's English: A Study of Words (1998).

Sommaire

Introduction 1: The Language of Learning 2: The Ad Hoc Schoolroom 3: The Basic Grammars and the Grammar-School Style 4: Grammaticalization and Literary Form 5: The Basic Reading Texts and Literary Work 6: Equipment for Living 7: The Experience of Learning

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GOR013351271
9780192856357
0192856359
From Literacy to Literature: England, 1300-1400 Christopher Cannon (Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of English and Classics, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of English and Classics, Johns Hopkins University)
Christopher Cannon (Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of English and Classics, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of English and Classics, Johns Hopkins University)
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Oxford University Press
2021-10-26
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