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Writing to the King
David Matthews
其他書名
Nation, Kingship and Literature in England, 1250–1350
出版Cambridge University Press, 2010-04-01
主題Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshLiterary Criticism / GeneralLanguage Arts & Disciplines / General
ISBN11394837579781139483759
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=MS2FIvuDP_cC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋In the century before Chaucer a new language of political critique emerged. In political verse of the period, composed in Anglo-Latin, Anglo-Norman, and Middle English, poets write as if addressing the king himself, drawing on their sense of the rights granted by Magna Carta. These apparent appeals to the sovereign increase with the development of parliament in the late thirteenth century and the emergence of the common petition, and become prominent, in an increasingly sophisticated literature, during the political crises of the early fourteenth century. However, very little of this writing was truly directed to the king. As David Matthews shows in this book, the form of address was a rhetorical stance revealing much about the position from which writers were composing, the audiences they wished to reach, and their construction of political and national subjects.