33.408, Books: From Literacy to Literature: Cannon

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Subject: 33.408, Books: From Literacy to Literature: Cannon

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Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2022 09:59:31
From: Tyler Simnick [Tyler.Simnick at oup.com]
Subject: From Literacy to Literature: Cannon

 


Title: From Literacy to Literature 
Subtitle: England, 1300-1400 
Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/from-literacy-to-literature-9780192856357 


Author: Christopher Cannon

Paperback: ISBN:  9780192856357 Pages: 314 Price: U.S. $ 25


Abstract:

The first lessons we learn in school can stay with us all our lives, but this
was nowhere more true than in the last decades of the fourteenth century when
grammar-school students were not only learning to read and write, but
understanding, for the first time, that their mother tongue, English, was
grammatical. The efflorescence of Ricardian poetry was not a direct result of
this change, but it was everywhere shaped by it. This book characterizes this
close connection between literacy training and literature, as it is manifest
in the fine and ambitious poetry by Gower, Langland and Chaucer, at this
transitional moment. This is also a book about the way medieval training in
grammar (or grammatica) shaped the poetic arts in the Middle Ages fully as
much as rhetorical training. It answers the curious question of what language
was used to teach Latin grammar to the illiterate. It reveals, for the first
time, what the surviving schoolbooks from the period actually contain. It
describes what form a 'grammar school' took in a period from which no school
buildings or detailed descriptions survive. And it scrutinizes the processes
of elementary learning with sufficient care to show that, for the grown
medieval schoolboy, well-learned books functioned, not only as a touchstone
for wisdom, but as a knowledge so personal and familiar that it was equivalent
to what we would now call 'experience'.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Ling & Literature


Written In: English  (eng)

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