Life in Words: Essays on Chaucer, the Gawain-Poet, and Malory

Jill Mann

Published by University of Toronto Press 2014

Life in Words

Essays on Chaucer, the Gawain-Poet, and Malory

Jill Mann
With contributions by: Mark Rasmussen

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442617414

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About this book

This volume collects fifteen landmark essays published over the last three decades by the distinguished medievalist Jill Mann.

Author / Editor information

Mann Jill :

Jill Mann is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame and a Life Fellow of Girton College, Cambridge.
Rasmussen Mark :

Mark David Rasmussen is Charles J. Luellen Professor of English at Centre College.

Reviews

Caitlin Santavenere:

‘Life in Words is a well-rounded look into Jill Mann’s catalogue… It provides unique and novel arguments to century-old discussions.’

Derek Pearsall, Gurney Professor of English Literature Emeritus, Harvard University:
“Jill Mann is the best reader and critic of Middle English literature of her generation. I have never read anything by her which left me unenlightened or uninspired by the activity of intelligence at the highest level. Rasmussen’s introductory essay is not only a measured assessment of Mann’s work as a critic: it also places that work, with great skill and learning, in the context of the history and development of criticism over the past thirty years.”

Ad Putter, Professor of Medieval English Literature, University of Bristol:
“The essays in Life in Words are models of sensitive close reading, impeccable scholarship, and beautiful and accessible writing. Mark David Rasmussen has made an intelligent and coherent selection from Jill Mann’s publications and manages both to introduce the individual pieces and to indicate the achievement they represent.”

T.S. Miller:

‘Each essay testifies to Mann’s incomparable close reading skills and enviable erudition, reflecting a careful attention to French and Latin sources over a lifetime of thinking about medieval English literature and language.’

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Author’s Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
A Note on References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Abbreviations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xi
List of Essays, with Places of Original Publication Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xiii
Introduction. Jill Mann’s Patience Mark David Rasmussen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xv
Chapter One. Troilus’s Swoon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter Two. Shakespeare and Chaucer: “What is Criseyde Worth?” Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	20
Chapter Three. Chance and Destiny in Troilus and Criseyde and the Knight’s Tale Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	42
Chapter Four. Chaucerian Themes and Style in the Franklin’s Tale Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	62
Chapter Five. Anger and “Glosynge” in the Canterbury Tales Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	80
Chapter Six. The Authority of the Audience in Chaucer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	102
Chapter Seven. Parents and Children in the Canterbury Tales Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
Chapter Eight. Satisfaction and Payment in Middle English Literature Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	138
Chapter Nine. Price and Value in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
Chapter Ten. Courtly Aesthetics and Courtly Ethics in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
Chapter Eleven. Sir Gawain and the Romance Hero Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
Chapter Twelve. Knightly Combat in Malory’s Morte d’Arthur Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
Chapter Thirteen. “Taking the Adventure”: Malory and the Suite du Merlin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
Chapter Fourteen. The Narrative of Distance, The Distance of Narrative in Malory’s Morte d’Arthur Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	275
Chapter Fifteen. Malory and the Grail Legend Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	312
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	333
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	351

Language: English
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 400

eBook

Published: May 7, 2014
ISBN: 9781442617414