From Literacy to Literature
- Oxford : OUP Oxford, (c)2016.
- 1 online resource (314 pages)
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover; From Literacy to Literature: England, 1300-1400; Copyright; Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Abbreviations; Note on Texts; MEDIEVAL SCHOOL TEXTS; MIDDLE ENGLISH; SCRIPTURE; Introduction; ELEMENTARY LEARNING AND THE MIDDLE ENGLISH POET; THE ERA OF GRAMMATICALIZATION; 1: The Language of Learning; "SAYING EVERYTHING IN LATIN"; "FIANT LATINA!"; 2: The Ad Hoc School; THE INFORMAL SCHOOLROOM; SCHOOLBOOK VARIATIONS; SCHOOLBOY IMPROVISATIONS; 3: The Basic Grammars and the Grammar-School Style; PEDAGOGIC POSITIONS; BREAD AND MILK FOR CHILDREN THE GRAMMAR OF CHAUCERIAN REALISM4: Grammaticalization and Literary Form; EX VI TRANSICIONIS; GRAMMAR-SCHOOL POETRY; LANGLAND'S LATIN; 5: The Basic Reading Texts andLiterary Work; THE FORMS OF THE TEXTS; THE POETRY OF PATCHWORK; THE MIDDLE ENGLISH POET AS SCHOOLBOY; CODA: THE GAWAIN-POET'S EXCEPTIONALISM; 6: Equipment for Living; SCHOOLROOM WISDOM; THE MERRIMENT OF THE MELIBEE; THE WISDOM OF MIDDLE ENGLISH LITERATURE; 7: The Experience of Learning; LEARNING BY HEART; THE POETRY OF EXPERIENCE; SCHOOLROOM LEARNING AS A WAY OF LIFE; Bibliography; MANUSCRIPTS; OTHER SOURCES; Index
From Literacy to Literature: England, 1300-1400 is a cultural history that draws a line between canonical ricardian writers and the school-books of their time.