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Troubling Truth in the Auchinleck Manuscript.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Troubling Truth in the Auchinleck Manuscript./
Author:	Reynolds, Amy.
Description:	1 online resource (239 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-02(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International79-02A(E).
Subject:	British & Irish literature. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9780355252798

Troubling Truth in the Auchinleck Manuscript.
Reynolds, Amy.

Troubling Truth in the Auchinleck Manuscript. - 1 online resource (239 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-02(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Washington University in St. Louis, 2017.

Includes bibliographical references

"Troubling Truth in the Auchinleck Manuscript" argues that many of the romances contained in this famous volume (c. 1330-40) respond in complex ways to the intensely unstable reign of Edward II (1307-27), and to that reign's cataclysmic end and aftermath. These romances engage with these crises' varied and negative impact on the foundational medieval value of "truth"---i.e. loyalty, trustworthiness, honor. Richard Firth Green's A Crisis of Truth examines many the late fourteenth century results of this destabilization of truth, and my work expands and adjusts his not only by examining the early fourteenth-century roots of such changes, but also by placing contemporary literature at the core of my investigation. I contend that romance provided the ideal ground for exploring the damage done by the recent disruptions of human truth, largely because romance itself freely mixed the untruths of fantasy with the troubling actualities of contemporary medieval life. My historicism is informed by---and looks to contribute to---the manuscript studies work that surrounds Auchinleck itself, the largest early witness to over a dozen new or unique Middle English romances. By blending an interdisciplinary approach with keen attention to the details of the romance texts themselves, my dissertation seeks to expose how this ostensibly "popular" literature creatively engages with its own historical circumstances, giving voice to a variety and depth of distress with those circumstances in a way that reveals otherwise obscure layers of this crisis of truth.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9780355252798Subjects--Topical Terms:

1148425
British & Irish literature.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

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