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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"vernacular literature"”.
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Telling tales out of school : schoolbooks, audiences, and the production of vernacular literature in late medieval England
… and for reading the Middle English literature created and read by those trained in these schools. As Chapter 1 explains, thirty-four extant manuscripts used in an educational context in late medieval England, listed with their contents in the Appendix, suggest the identification of …
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The Visual Language of Vernacular Manuscript Illumination: John Gower's Confessio Amantis (Pierpont Morgan MS M.126)
… Expressing a commonplace among writers of vernacular literature in late medieval England, John Gower describes authorial activity as the process of translating and assimilating pre-existing narratives. This dissertation argues that such conceptualizations of authorship were embraced by …
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明清以來的寶卷與女性文化—— 文本、歷史與儀式實踐的探索 = BAOJUAN (PRECIOUS SCROLLS) LITERATURE AND FEMALE CULTURE DURING THE MING-QING PERIODS: AN EXPLORATION OF TEXTS, HISTORY AND RITUAL PRACTICES
… re-access and re-envision paradigms of Chinese vernacular literature in light of gender perspective will allow a comprehensive understanding on how female recipients and practitioners of textual culture demonstrated impactful relevance to the integration and transformation of the genre. Cases …
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Reflections of renaissance ideas of education in the plays of Shakespeare
… in history when there was a realization that the literature essentially but also the law, the philosophy, and the science of the ancient world, including Greece, Rome, and the East provided the best models for a permanent culture. Furthermore, the Renaissance was a period when men in Italy, …
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Reading in the animal vernacular: the bestiary as lay genre in medieval England
… not explain. The animal imagery that appears in vernacular media requires a nuanced understanding from the audience in order to have any meaning beyond superficial figural representation; in other words, the laity had acquired a “literacy” of the bestiary’s animal exempla by the fourteenth …
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Occult poetics and the production of English verse, 1558-1603
… is an inherent part of the production of vernacular literature during the Elizabethan period. I argue that occult discourses about language are drawn upon by writers of the period who seek to establish an English literature to rival that of the classical tradition. The quotidian nature of …
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Sedition, Equality, Nature, and Love: Anti-colonialism in the Literary Corpus of Kazi Nazrul Islam, 1900-1930
… of anti-colonial political thought and the ways vernacular literature reconciled with colonial and national questions.</p>
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The Changing Uses and Developments of Affectivity in the Practice of Confession (12th-13th centuries)
… developed by scholastics; lastly, by using vernacular literature in order to determine how and in which terms the laity assimilated such emotionality in their practice of confession. I demonstrate that pastors could be very flexible in interpreting this penitential emotionality, by adapting …
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Between the household and the school : socialising the child in England, c.1400-1600
… explores the transmission and reception of literature concerned with childhood, and the socialisation of children, in England between 1400 and 1600. Literature reflects and fashions social concerns, and furnishes the opportunity to observe contemporary reactions and understandings of …
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Between the household and the school : socialising the child in England, c.1400-1600
… explores the transmission and reception of literature concerned with childhood, and the socialisation of children, in England between 1400 and 1600. Literature reflects and fashions social concerns, and furnishes the opportunity to observe contemporary reactions and understandings of …
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Imagining The Reader: Vernacular Representation and Specialized Vocabulary in Medieval English Literature
… audience because Langland chose to write in the vernacular and he used the specialized vocabularies of his readership to open the poem to them. During the late thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, writers began using the vernacular in an attempt to allow all English people access to their texts. …