Chaucer and the Subversion of Form (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Prendergast, Thomas A.

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Produktbeschreibung

Responding to the lively resurgence of literary formalism, this volume delivers a timely and fresh exploration of the works of Geoffrey Chaucer. Advancing 'new formalist' approaches, medieval scholars have begun to ask what happens when structure fails to yield meaning, probing the very limits of poetic organization. While Chaucer is acknowledged as a master of form, his work also foregrounds troubling questions about formal agency: the disparate forces of narrative and poetic practice, readerly reception, intertextuality, genre, scribal attention, patronage, and historical change. This definitive collection of essays offers diverse perspectives on Chaucer and a varied analysis of these problems, asking what happens when form is resisted by author or reader, when it fails by accident or by design, and how it can be misleading, errant, or even dangerous.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108148900
• Artikelnr.: 54102260

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: failure, figure, reception Thomas A. Prendergast and Jessica
Rosenfeld; Part I. The Failures of Form: 1. 'Many a lay and many a thing':
Chaucer's technical terms Jenni Nuttall; 2. Chaucer's aesthetic resources:
nature, longing, and economies of form Jennifer Jahner; 3. Against order:
medieval, modern, and contemporary critiques of causality Eleanor Johnson;
Part II. The Corporeality and Form: 4. Diverging forms: disability and the
Monk's Tales Jonathan Hsy; 5. Figures for 'Gretter knowing': forms in the
Treatise on the Astrolabe Lisa H. Cooper; 6. The heaviness of prosopoeial
form in Chaucer's Book of the Duchess Julie Orlemanski; Part III. The Forms
of Reception: 7. Reading badly: what the Physician's Tale isn't telling us
Thomas A. Prendergast; 8. Birdsong, love, and the House of Lancaster: Gower
reforms Chaucer Arthur Bahr; 9. Opening The Canterbury Tales: form and
formalism in the general prologue Stephanie Trigg.