Hochon's Arrow. The Social Imagination of Fourteenth-Century Texts - STROHM, PAUL
the social imagination of fourteenth-century texts
KORTE INHOUD
"The paradox of the lie that might as well be true," writes Paul Strohm, "must interest anyone who seeks to understand texts in history or the historical influence of texts." In these seven essays, all recent and most published here for the first time, the author examines historical and literary texts from fourteenth-century England. He not only demonstrates the fictionality of narrative and documentary sources, but also argues that these fictions are themselves fully historical. Together the essays institute a dialogue between texts and events that restores historical documents and literary works to their larger environments. Strohm begins by inspecting legal records that accuse Hochon of Liverpool in 1384 of threatening to shoot an arrow at a political adversary urinating against a wall, and shows how the text embodies and interconnects language, social space, and historical interpretation itself. Throughout his analyses, which cover such topics as Chaucer's verses on the accession of Henry IV, Froissart's ...
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1992Uitgever: Princeton University Press205 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0691068801ISBN-13: 9780691068800Koop dit boek tweedehands
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(XII) 205 p. Bound in the publisher's green cloth with gilt title spine (Fine copy, without the dustjacket.) Princeton, University Press 1992 [Auteur: STROHM, PAUL] [Jaar: 1992] [Titel: Hochon's Arrow. The Social Imagination of Fourteenth-Century Texts]
