Temporal Circumstances
Form and History in the Canterbury Tales
Published on 14. January 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
279 pages
978-1-349-73736-9 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Edition
2006 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
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Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-349-73736-9 (9781349737369)
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12/2006
Palgrave MacMillan
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Content
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