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Contemporary Chaucer Across the Centuries.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture SeriesPublisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (286 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781526129161
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Contemporary Chaucer Across the CenturiesDDC classification:
  • 821.1
LOC classification:
  • PR1924 .C668 2018
Online resources:
Contents:
Front matter -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of plates -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Identifying, and identifying with, Chaucer -- First encounter: 'snail-horn perception' in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde -- Sir Thopas's mourning maidens -- Chaucerian rhyme-breaking -- 'Have ye nat seyn somtyme a pale face?' -- Heavy atmosphere -- Hunting and fortune in the Book of the Duchess and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight -- The implausible plausibility of the Prologue to the Tale of Beryn -- Caxton in the middle of English -- 'Hail graybeard bard': Chaucer in the nineteenth-century popular consciousness -- Chaucer as Catholic child in nineteenth-century English reception -- Flesh and stone: William Morris's News from Nowhere and Chaucer's dream visions -- 'In remembrance of his persone': transhistorical empathy and the Chaucerian face -- Textual face: cognition as recognition -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: This collection gathers leading international scholars in the humanities, who offer cutting-edge responses to the writings of Geoffrey Chaucer for the current critical moment. The range of methodological approaches exemplifies significant trends in medieval literary and medievalism studies, providing a springboard for future research.
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Front matter -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of plates -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Identifying, and identifying with, Chaucer -- First encounter: 'snail-horn perception' in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde -- Sir Thopas's mourning maidens -- Chaucerian rhyme-breaking -- 'Have ye nat seyn somtyme a pale face?' -- Heavy atmosphere -- Hunting and fortune in the Book of the Duchess and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight -- The implausible plausibility of the Prologue to the Tale of Beryn -- Caxton in the middle of English -- 'Hail graybeard bard': Chaucer in the nineteenth-century popular consciousness -- Chaucer as Catholic child in nineteenth-century English reception -- Flesh and stone: William Morris's News from Nowhere and Chaucer's dream visions -- 'In remembrance of his persone': transhistorical empathy and the Chaucerian face -- Textual face: cognition as recognition -- Bibliography -- Index.

This collection gathers leading international scholars in the humanities, who offer cutting-edge responses to the writings of Geoffrey Chaucer for the current critical moment. The range of methodological approaches exemplifies significant trends in medieval literary and medievalism studies, providing a springboard for future research.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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