{"product_id":"textual-subjectivity-a-c-spearing-9780198187240","title":"Textual Subjectivity: The Encoding of Subjectivity in Medieval Narratives and Lyrics","description":"This book investigates how subjectivity is encoded in the texts of a wide variety of medieval narratives and lyrics--not how they express the subjectivity of individuals, but how subjectivity, escaping the bounds of individuality, is incorporated in the linguistic fabric of their texts. Most of the poems discussed are in English, and the book includes analyses of Chaucer's \u003cem\u003eTroilus and Criseyde\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eMan of Law's Tale\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eComplaint Unto Pity\u003c\/em\u003e, the works of the \u003cem\u003ePearl\u003c\/em\u003e poet, \u003cem\u003eHavelok the Dane\u003c\/em\u003e, the lyric sequence attributed to Charles of Orleans (the earliest such sequence in English), and many anonymous poems. It also devotes sections to Ovid's \u003cem\u003eHeroides\u003c\/em\u003e and to poems by the troubadour Bernart de Ventadorn. For the first time, it brings to bear on medieval narratives and lyrics a body of theory which denies the supposed necessity for literary texts to have narrators or \"speakers,\" and in doing so reveals the implausibilities into which a dogmatic assumption of this necessity has led much of the last century's criticism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e A. C. Spearing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0198187246\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198187240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/29\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 282\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.11lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.75d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2006 pg. 114","brand":"A. C. Spearing","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44919632593151,"sku":"9780198187240","price":240.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6d7ab23a-736c-45ba-a991-7b4425acc5dd.jpg?v=1710359047","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/textual-subjectivity-a-c-spearing-9780198187240","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}