Medieval Poetics and Social Practice: Responding to the Work of Penn R. Szittya

This collection responds to the critical legacy of Penn R. Szittya, the recently retired former chair of Georgetown University's English Department. Inspired by Georgetown's Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice and its statement that poetry "traverses the fields of aesthetic, social, political, and religious thought," this work investigates how medieval poetic language reflects and also shapes social, political, and religious worlds. At a...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823243249
• ISBN13: 9780823243242
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.3"