Reading Between the Lines

ISBN-13: 9780415092401 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 352 str.

Annabel M. Patterson

Opis

Annabel Patterson's Reading Between the Lines tackles a central topic in literary studies, the great books debate and the question of teaching the canon of English literature, providing a moderate stance between the Western canon's radical opponents and its zealous protectors.

Spis treści

Introduction 1. “Just Reading” or Reading Plato’s Laws 2. Couples, Canons, and the Uncouth: Spenser-and Milton 3. A Petitioning Society 4. The Egalitarian Giant: Representations of Justice in History/Literature 5. The Small Cat Massacre: Popular Culture in the 1587 “Holinshed” 6. Quod oportet versus quod convenit: John Donne, Kingsman? 7. The Good Old Cause The Republican’s Library, “The Civil War is not ended”: Milton’s Modern Readers 8. Sleeping with the Enemy, Milton Uncouples Himself, The Rape of Lucrece, Sleeping with the Enemy, Postscript: The Return from Theory, Index

O autorze

Annabel Patterson