Contemporary Chaucer Across the Centuries.
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- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781526129161
- 821.1
- PR1924 .C668 2018
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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