Arts of dying : literature and finitude in medieval England / D. Vance Smith
2020, 1st edition. Chicago : University of Chicago Press. Fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #384252
ISBN: 022664099X
Physical description; x, 299 pp., illustrations. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; 1. Out of Death, Art of Dying -- 2. The Old English Grammar of the Soul -- 3. The Tremulous Soul : The Worcester Fragments -- 4. Unearthly Earth : Mortuary Lyric -- 5. "Alway deynge and be not ded" : The Book of the Duchess and "The Pardoner's Tale" -- 6. Dying and the Tragedy of Occupation : "The Knight's Tale" -- 7. The "Deth-dyinge" of Will : Piers Plowman -- 8. The Physics of Elegy : Pearl -- 9. Death, Terminable and Interminable : St. Erkenwald -- 10. Lydgate's Exquisite Corpus -- 11. "Dyynge and talking" : Hoccleve's Loquacious Archive -- 12. The Care of the Archive : John Audelay's Three Dead Kings. Subjects; Death in literature. English literature Middle English, 1100-1500, History and criticism. Literary studies: ancient, classical & medieval.
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