Medieval Poetics and Social Practice - Responding to the Work of Penn R. Szittya

Informationen zum Autor Seeta Chaganti is an Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of The Medieval Poetics of the Reliquary: Enshrinement, Inscription, Performance . Klappentext This collection responds to the critical legacy of Penn R. Szittya. Its contributors investigate how medieval poetic language reflects and shapes social, political, and religious worlds. In addition to new readings of canonical poetic texts, it includes readings of texts that have previously not held a central place in critical attention. Zusammenfassung This collection responds to the critical legacy of Penn R. Szittya. Its contributors investigate how medieval poetic language reflects and shapes social! political! and religious worlds. In addition to new readings of canonical poetic texts! it includes readings of texts that have previously not held a central place in critical attention.

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• Authors: Seeta Chaganti, Seeta (University of California Chaganti
• Assisted by: Seeta Chaganti (Editor)
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.2012
• EAN: 9780823243242
• ISBN: 978-0-8232-4324-2
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Fordham Series in Medieval Stu; Fordham Series in Medieval Studies; Fordham Series in Medieval Studies; Fordham Medieval Studies
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies