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Writing Combat and the Self in Early Modern English Literature The Pen and the Sword

Writing Combat and the Self in Early Modern English Literature The Pen and the Sword

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By examining these competing depictions of combat that coexist in sixteenth-century texts ranging from Arthurian romance to early modern medical texts, this study reveals both the importance of combat in understanding the humanist subject and the contours of the previously neglected pre-modern subject.

Keywords

Literary CriticismModernHistoryEuropeGreat BritainSemiotics & TheoryEuropeanLanguage Arts & DisciplinesLinguisticsHistorical & Comparative

2011Book

Author(s)Jennifer Feather

PublisherPalgrave Macmillan US

ISBN9780230120419

LanguageEnglish

SpringerLink Book

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