Textual Subjectivity

A. C. Spearing is Professor of English at the University of Virginia and Fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge.

• 1. SUBJECTIVITY AND TEXTUALITY ; 'Writing is nothing but the representation of speech' ; 'There can be no narrative without a narrator' ; Did Subjectivity Emerge? ; The Following Chapters ; 2. ROMANCES ; King Horn ; Havelok ; 3. TROILUS AND CRISEYDE ; The Narrator in Troilus Criticism ; Is There a Fallible Narrator? ; Is There a Distinct Narratorial Discourse? ; The Narrator and Criseyde ; 4. THE MAN OF LAW'S TALE ; Narrators in Canterbury Tales Criticism ; The Man of Law as Fallible Narrator ; Subjectivized Narration ; The Achievement of the Man of Law's Tale ; 5. NARRATION IN THE PEARL POET ; 'Third-Person' Narration ; 'First-Person' Narration ; 6. LYRICS ; What is a Lyric? ; 'Lovers that kan make of sentement' ; Lyric as Dramatic Monologue? ; Chaucer's Complaint Unto Pity ; 7. EPISTOLARY POEMS ; Ovid's Heroides ; Two Middle English Epistolary Lyrics

criticism of the highest order, both subtle and impressive... it is hard to stem one's praise for this rich and rewarding volume. Seldom does one meet a work on the Middle Age so well written, so lucid, so wise.