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Forms of speculation: Religious genres and religious inquiry in late medieval England.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Forms of speculation: Religious genres and religious inquiry in late medieval England./
Author:	Sisk, Jennifer Lynn.
Description:	239 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Lee Patterson.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International69-05A.
Subject:	Literature, English. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3317216
ISBN:	9780549656685

Forms of speculation: Religious genres and religious inquiry in late medieval England.
Sisk, Jennifer Lynn.

Forms of speculation: Religious genres and religious inquiry in late medieval England. - 239 p.

Adviser: Lee Patterson.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Yale University, 2008.

Unlike the religious polemics that flourished in late medieval England, Middle English literary texts---including religious poems---rarely constructed coherent theologies or argued explicitly for particular sides in the many religious debates of the period. "Forms of Speculation" participates in an effort by recent scholars to register the complexities of the religious ideas in these texts by interpreting them as literary rather than programmatic works. This effort reveals how religious literature, in a significantly different way from polemic, played a vital role in contemporary conversations about religion, suggesting by extension that the rise of the literary register may itself deserve greater attention in the study of intellectual history.

ISBN: 9780549656685Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017709
Literature, English.

Forms of speculation: Religious genres and religious inquiry in late medieval England.
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520 $a In a series of linked case studies, this project examines part of Langland's Piers Plowman (the account of Christ's life), Fragment 8 of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, the alliterative St. Erkenwald, and Lydgate's St. Edmund and St. Fremund. In subtle and surprising ways, and often without appearing to, these poems indirectly engage religious issues of contemporary sensitivity. Each of the works considered contains a new version of a sacred narrative that tells or retells events in the life of a holy man or woman, and in each a culturally resonant religious question emerges as an effect of the writer's chosen context for his story. The four poets recontextualize in various ways their largely traditional materials, and these apparently purely literary techniques destabilize readerly expectations in ways that lead the poems to complex engagement with contested religious issues. The exploration of religious questions in these poems seems to happen as an unintentional effect of storytelling, of narrative or generic choices that these poets make with other problems more immediately in mind. But it is because these questions emerge so casually, not at the centers of these literary works, that they are able to develop in complex and unexpected ways that do not replicate contemporary polemics. Moreover, because the issues are presented obliquely rather than polemically, these poems perform important cultural work by giving readers opportunities to speculate about the large questions they pose.
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