{"product_id":"the-medieval-literary-beyond-form-9781843844891","title":"The Medieval Literary: Beyond Form","description":"\u003cb\u003eEssays studying the relationship between literariness and form in medieval texts.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe twenty-first century has witnessed the re-emergence of various kinds of literary formalism, and one project that characterizes most of these diverse formalisms is the effort to distinguish what is precisely \u003ci\u003eliterary\u003c\/i\u003e about their objects of study. The presumed relation between \u003ci\u003eform\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eliterary\u003c\/i\u003e that this project presupposes, however, raises questions that still need to be addressed. What is it about form that produces the category of the literary? What precisely is literary about literary form? Can the literary be defined beyond form?\u003cbr\u003e This volume explores these questions in the historical and geographical frame of late medieval Britain, across vaunted literary works such as the \u003ci\u003eFranklin's Tale, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight\u003c\/i\u003e, and the Towneley \u003ci\u003eShepherds' Plays\u003c\/i\u003e, and presumed \"non-literary\" texts, such as books of hours. By studying texts from a period long priorto literary formalism - indeed, before any fully articulated theory of the literary - the essays gathered here aim to rethink the relationship between form and the literary.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Robert J. Meyer-Lee is Margaret W. PepperdeneDistinguished Scholar-in-Residence at Agnes Scott College; Catherine Sanok is an Associate Professor of English and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Contributors: Anke Bernau, Jessica Brantley, Seeta Chaganti,  Shannon Gayk, Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, Andrew Klein, Robert J. Meyer-Lee, Ingrid Nelson,  Maura Nolan,  Sarah Elliott Novacich,  Catherine Sanok, Emily Steiner, Claire M. Waters.","brand":"Robert J Meyer-Lee","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48280398233851,"sku":"9781843844891","price":130.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781843844891_09425ee6-55d5-45f8-8599-09e6608748af.jpg?v=1772487517","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/the-medieval-literary-beyond-form-9781843844891","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}