E-Book, Englisch, 225 Seiten
Reihe: The New Middle Ages
Allen False Fables and Exemplary Truth
1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-1-137-04479-2
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
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Poetics and Reception of Medieval Mode
E-Book, Englisch, 225 Seiten
Reihe: The New Middle Ages
ISBN: 978-1-137-04479-2
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
This study charts relationships between moral claims and audience response in medieval exemplary works by such poets as Chaucer, Gower, Robert Henryson, and several anonymous scribes. In late medieval England, exemplary works make one of the strongest possible claims for the social value of poetic fiction. Studying this debate reveals a set of local literary histories, based on both canonical and non-canonical texts, that complicate received notions of the didactic Middle Ages, the sophisticated Renaissance, and the fallow fifteenth century in between.




