Christopher Cannon

From Literacy to Literature: England, 1300-1400

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sinauer Associates Is an Imprint of Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 137mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780198779438
• ISBN-10: 0198779437
• Artikelnr.: 45984487

Autorenporträt

Christopher Cannon was educated at Harvard, and has taught at UCLA, Oxford, Cambridge and, now, at NYU. 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 currently collaborating with James Simpson on a revised edition of the works of Geoffrey Chaucer for OUP.

Inhaltsangabe

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