Temporal Circumstances
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Temporal Circumstances

Form and History in the Canterbury Tales

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Temporal Circumstances

Form and History in the Canterbury Tales

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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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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2016
ISBN
9781137084514
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Medieval & Early Modern Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Priface
  7. Introduction: Historicism and Postmodemity
  8. 1. Putting the Wife in Her Place: The Place of Philology
  9. 2. Putting the Wife in Her Place: The Place of History
  10. 3. Freedom and Necessity: The Example of the Clerk's Tale
  11. 4. Chaucer's Pardoner on the Couch: Psyche and Clio in Medieval Literary Studies
  12. 5. "What Man Artow?": Authorial Self-Definition in the Tale of Sir Thopas and the Tale of Me Ii bee
  13. 6. "The Living Witnesses of Our Redemption": Martyrdom and Imitation in the Prioress's Tale
  14. 7. Perpetual Motion: Alchemy and the Technology of the Self
  15. Notes
  16. Index