Temporal Circumstances
Form and History in the Canterbury Tales
Published on 19. December 2006
Book
Hardback
VIII, 279 pages
978-1-4039-7481-5 (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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Series
Edition
2006 edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Palgrave USA
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Paper over boards
With dust jacket
Illustrations
VIII, 279 p.
Dimensions
Height: 248 mm
Width: 163 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
544 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4039-7481-5 (9781403974815)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-137-08451-4
Schweitzer Classification
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09/2016
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01/2014
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Person
LEE PATTERSON, F. W. Hilles Professor of English at Yale University, USA, is the author of
Negotiating the Past: The Historical Understanding of Medieval Literature
and
Chaucer and the Subject of History
, 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.
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