Authorising history :: gestures of authorship in fourteenth-century English historiography /

""This book discusses the strategies and rhetorical means by which four authors of Middle English verse historiography seek to authorise their works and themselves. Paying careful attention to the texts, it traces the ways in which authors inscribe their fictional selves and seek to give a...

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1. Verfasser: Nyffenegger, Nicole
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.
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Zusammenfassung:""This book discusses the strategies and rhetorical means by which four authors of Middle English verse historiography seek to authorise their works and themselves. Paying careful attention to the texts, it traces the ways in which authors inscribe their fictional selves and seek to give authority to their constructions of history. It further investigates how the authors position themselves in relation to their task of writing history, their sources and their audiences. This study provides new ...
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xi, 218 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-213) and index.
ISBN:9781443868419
1443868418
1322180539
9781322180533

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