Temporal Circumstances
Form and History in the Canterbury Tales
1st Edition
Published on 23. September 2016
279 pages
978-1-137-08451-4 (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.
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.
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.
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Content
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Priface
- Introduction: Historicism and Postmodemity
- 1. Putting the Wife in Her Place: The Place of Philology
- 2. Putting the Wife in Her Place: The Place of History
- 3. Freedom and Necessity: The Example of the Clerk's Tale
- 4. Chaucer's Pardoner on the Couch: Psyche and Clio in Medieval Literary Studies
- 5. "What Man Artow?": Authorial Self-Definition in the Tale of Sir Thopas and the Tale of Me Ii bee
- 6. "The Living Witnesses of Our Redemption": Martyrdom and Imitation in the Prioress's Tale
- 7. Perpetual Motion: Alchemy and the Technology of the Self
- Notes
- Index
