Chaucer and the Discourse of German Philology. A History of Reception and an Annotated Bibliography of Studies 1793-1948 - UTZ, Richard
KORTE INHOUD
Published in the series : Making the Middle Ages, volume 3. University of Sydney Centre for Medieval Studies. This publication focuses on the genesis of modern Chaucer criticism, which was heavily formed by German philologists, and emphasizes the 'Chaucerphilology` of 1870-1914. In the nineteenth and early twentieth century, German-speaking scholars played a decisive role in founding and shaping the study of medieval and early modern English language and culture. During this process, aesthetic and literary enthusiasms were gradually replaced, first by broadly comparative and then by increasingly narrow scientistic practices, all confusingly subsumed under the term 'philology'. Towards 1871, German and Austrian Anglicists were successful at imposing-- for about 30 years -- many of their philological discoursive practices on their English-speaking counterparts by focusing on strict textual criticism, chronology, historical linguistics, prosody, and literary history. After World War I, these philological practi...
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XXI+446 pp. Hard cover [Categorie: middeleeuwen] [Auteur: UTZ, Richard] [Uitgever: Brepols,] [Jaar: 2002] [Titel: Chaucer and the Discourse of German Philology. A History of Reception and an Annotated Bibliography of Studies 1793-1948]
