Temporal Circumstances

Form and History in the Canterbury Tales
2006. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-1-4039-7481-5
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 279 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 248 mm, Gewicht: 544 g

Reihe: The New Middle Ages

Temporal Circumstances provides powerful and detailed interpretations of the most important and challenging of the Canterbury Tales. Well-informed and clearly written, this book will interest both those familiar with Chaucer's masterpiece and readers new to it.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Patterson, L.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface Introduction: Historicism and Postmodernity Putting the Wife in Her Place: The Place of Philology Putting the Wife in Her Place: The Place of History Freedom and Necessity: The Example of the Clerk's Tale Chaucer's Pardoner on the Couch: Clio and Psyche in Medieval Literary Studies 'What Man Artow': Authorial Self-Definition in the Tale of Sir Thopas and the Tale of Melibee 'Witnesses of Our Redemption: Jewish Martyrdom and Christian Sacrifice in the Prioress's Tale Perpetual Motion: Alchemy and the Technology of the Self

Über Autor(innen)

LEE PATTERSON, F. W. Hilles Professor of English at Yale University, USA, is the author of and , awarded the Christian Gauss prize by Phi Beta Kappa. A Fellow of the Medieval Academy, he is the author of numerous essays on medieval literature.