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Medieval Poetics and Social Practice: Responding to the Work of Penn R. Szittya
Chaganti
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Hardback. 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. Editor(s): Chaganti, Seeta. Series: Fordham Series in Medieval Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages, 6 b/w illus. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 522.
This collection responds to the critical legacy of Penn R. Szittya, the recently retired former chair of Georgetown University’s English Department. Inspired by Georgetown’s Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice and its statement that poetry “traverses the fields of aesthetic, social, political, and religious thought,” this work investigates how medieval poetic language reflects and also shapes social, political, and religious worlds. At a moment in contemporary culture when poetry finds its value increasingly challenged, Medieval Poetics and Social Practice looks to the late Middle Ages to assert the indispensability of poetry and poetics in the formation of social structures, ... Read more
This collection responds to the critical legacy of Penn R. Szittya, the recently retired former chair of Georgetown University’s English Department. Inspired by Georgetown’s Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice and its statement that poetry “traverses the fields of aesthetic, social, political, and religious thought,” this work investigates how medieval poetic language reflects and also shapes social, political, and religious worlds. At a moment in contemporary culture when poetry finds its value increasingly challenged, Medieval Poetics and Social Practice looks to the late Middle Ages to assert the indispensability of poetry and poetics in the formation of social structures, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Series
Fordham Series in Medieval Studies
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823243242
SKU
V9780823243242
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About Chaganti
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.
Reviews for Medieval Poetics and Social Practice: Responding to the Work of Penn R. Szittya
"I am certain that I will be referring to several of these essays in my own work in the near future, and I am confident that others will find them as useful as I have."
-Robert Adams Sam Houston State University
-Robert Adams Sam Houston State University