Chaucer's Poetry Words, Authority and Ethics |
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| Editor:
| Carney, Clíodhna
McCormack, Frances |
| Series title: | Dublin Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-84682-336-7 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2013 |
| Publisher: | Four Courts Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $74.50 |
Book Description:
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This collection reminds us of the reasons to read, and re-read, Chaucer. The essays cast new light on Geoffrey Chaucer's poetry and, in their careful scholarship and sensitivity to the past, show us paradoxically how Chaucer is being re-conceived in the 21st century. Chapters include: Sir John Clanvowe and Chaucer's Friar's Tale * Chaucer's counterfeit Exempla * Chaucer's material landscape * time and authority in Chaucer's Parliament of Foules * patterns of disruption in The Prioress'...
More DescriptionThis collection reminds us of the reasons to read, and re-read, Chaucer. The essays cast new light on Geoffrey Chaucer's poetry and, in their careful scholarship and sensitivity to the past, show us paradoxically how Chaucer is being re-conceived in the 21st century. Chapters include: Sir John Clanvowe and Chaucer's Friar's Tale * Chaucer's counterfeit Exempla * Chaucer's material landscape * time and authority in Chaucer's Parliament of Foules * patterns of disruption in The Prioress' Tale * Petrarch, the clerk, and the wife * Chaucer's ethical poetic in the Canterbury Tales * the dangerous beauty of Chaucer's prioress * Chaucer in the 21st century: some thoughts on digital archives * London's Chaucer * Chaucer's roi solei