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4 Fayre Formez: Vernacular Scriptural Paraphrase and Lay Reading in Cleanness
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Illustrations vii
- List of Contributors viii
- A. C. Spearing’s Work and Influence xi
- Bibliography of A. C. Spearing’s Works xxviii
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I Reading Experience and Experientiality
- 1 The Wife of Bath’s “Experience”: Some Lexicographical Reflections 3
- 2 The Proximity of the Virtual: A. C. Spearing’s Experientiality (or, Roaming with Palamon and Arcite) 15
- 3 Makyng and Middles in Chaucer’s Poetry 31
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II Revisions and Re-visioning of Alliterative Poetry
- 4 Fayre Formez: Vernacular Scriptural Paraphrase and Lay Reading in Cleanness 47
- 5 Langland’s Last Words 65
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III Subjectivity and the Self
- 6 Re-reading Troilus in Response to Tony Spearing 85
- 7 The English Charles: Subjectivity, Texts and Culture 97
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IV Reading for Form
- 8 The Inescapability of Form 119
- 9 Destroyer of Forms: Chaucer’s Philomela 135
- 10 Gower’s Confessio Amantis and Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales as Dits 157
- 11 Poems without Form? Maiden in the mor lay Revisited 169
- 12 “I” and “We” in Chaucer’s Complaint unto Pity 195
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V Epilogue
- 13 Two Appreciations of A. C. Spearing 215
- 14 Announcing a Literary Find Apparently Related to the Gawain-poet 219
- Works Cited 223
- Index 241
- Tabula Gratulatoria 249
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Illustrations vii
- List of Contributors viii
- A. C. Spearing’s Work and Influence xi
- Bibliography of A. C. Spearing’s Works xxviii
-
I Reading Experience and Experientiality
- 1 The Wife of Bath’s “Experience”: Some Lexicographical Reflections 3
- 2 The Proximity of the Virtual: A. C. Spearing’s Experientiality (or, Roaming with Palamon and Arcite) 15
- 3 Makyng and Middles in Chaucer’s Poetry 31
-
II Revisions and Re-visioning of Alliterative Poetry
- 4 Fayre Formez: Vernacular Scriptural Paraphrase and Lay Reading in Cleanness 47
- 5 Langland’s Last Words 65
-
III Subjectivity and the Self
- 6 Re-reading Troilus in Response to Tony Spearing 85
- 7 The English Charles: Subjectivity, Texts and Culture 97
-
IV Reading for Form
- 8 The Inescapability of Form 119
- 9 Destroyer of Forms: Chaucer’s Philomela 135
- 10 Gower’s Confessio Amantis and Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales as Dits 157
- 11 Poems without Form? Maiden in the mor lay Revisited 169
- 12 “I” and “We” in Chaucer’s Complaint unto Pity 195
-
V Epilogue
- 13 Two Appreciations of A. C. Spearing 215
- 14 Announcing a Literary Find Apparently Related to the Gawain-poet 219
- Works Cited 223
- Index 241
- Tabula Gratulatoria 249