Format:
Online Ressource (xi, 218 pages)
,
illustrations.
ISBN:
9781443868419
,
1443868418
Content:
""This book discusses the strategies and rhetorical means by which four authors of Middle English verse historiography seek to authorise their works and themselves. Paying careful attention to the texts, it traces the ways in which authors inscribe their fictional selves and seek to give authority to their constructions of history. It further investigates how the authors position themselves in relation to their task of writing history, their sources and their audiences. This study provides new
Content:
Introduction -- The task of writing history -- History : the subject matter -- Empowering written texts -- Negotiating authority -- Inscribing authority -- Conclusion.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-213) and index. - In English; with some passages in Middle English. - Print version record
Additional Edition:
1322180539
Additional Edition:
9781322180533
Additional Edition:
1443848190
Additional Edition:
9781443848190
Additional Edition:
1443848190
Additional Edition:
Druckausg. Nyffenegger-Staub, Nicole Authorising history Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publ., 2013 1443848190
Additional Edition:
9781443848190
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
England
;
Geschichtsschreibung
;
Autorschaft
;
Geschichte 1300-1400
;
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