J A Burrow
Biographic Data
| ID | 1014768 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J A Burrow |
| GIVEN NAMES | J A |
| FAMILY NAME | Burrow |
| SIGNATURE | BURROW J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bristol |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Poetry of Praise
The Poetry of Praise
One of the chief functions of poetry in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance was to praise gods, people and things. Heroes and kings were glorified in many varieties of praise, and the arts of encomium and panegyric were codified by classical rhetoricians and later by writers on poetry. J. A. Burrow's study spans over two thousand years, from Pindar to Christopher Logue, but its main concern is with the English poetry of the Middle Ages…
Another Proverb for Pandarus?
In the course of their long scene together in Book II of Troilus and Criseyde, Pandarus finally promises to tell his niece the piece of good news at which he has been hinting
The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature . David Wallace
Gestures and Looks in Piers Plowman
Medieval Futures
Hoccleve's Complaint and Isidore of Seville Again
The World Grown Old in Later Medieval Literature. James M. Dean
The Alterity of Medieval Literature
ANS ROBERTJAUSS here gives an excellent account of three involved in reading old texts: first, immediate, prereflexive aesthetic experience; then awareness of of world of text; then discovery of meaning for us. I want to concentrate on second of these steps and make a few observations on how contributors to this issue treat what Jauss calls alterity of Middle Ages. My first observation is a general one. In very first sentence of his seminal book,…
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The Alterity of Medieval Literature
ANS ROBERTJAUSS here gives an excellent account of three involved in reading old texts: first, immediate, prereflexive aesthetic experience; then awareness of of world of text; then discovery of meaning for us. I want to concentrate on second of these steps and make a few observations on how contributors to this issue treat what Jauss calls alterity of Middle Ages. My first observation is a general one. In very first sentence of his seminal book,…
Hoccleve's Complaint and Isidore of Seville Again
The World Grown Old in Later Medieval Literature. James M. Dean
Gestures and Looks in Piers Plowman
Medieval Futures
The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature . David Wallace
Another Proverb for Pandarus?
In the course of their long scene together in Book II of Troilus and Criseyde, Pandarus finally promises to tell his niece the piece of good news at which he has been hinting
The Poetry of Praise
One of the chief functions of poetry in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance was to praise gods, people and things. Heroes and kings were glorified in many varieties of praise, and the arts of encomium and panegyric were codified by classical rhetoricians and later by writers on poetry. J. A. Burrow's study spans over two thousand years, from Pindar to Christopher Logue, but its main concern is with the English poetry of the Middle Ages…
Poetry of Praise
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