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Chaucer and the subversion of form / edited by Thomas A. Prendergast and Jessica Rosenfeld.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Cambridge studies in medieval literature ; 104.
- Cambridge studies in medieval literature ; 104
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400--Criticism and interpretation.
- Chaucer, Geoffrey.
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400--Criticism, Textual.
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400--Technique.
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400.
- Technique.
- Criticism, Textual.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 224 pages.)
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Introduction: failure, figure, reception / Thomas A. Prendergast and Jessica Rosenfeld
- Part I. The Failures of Form. 'Many a lay and many a thing': Chaucer's technical terms / Jenni Nuttall
- Chaucer's aesthetic resources: nature, longing, and economies of form / Jennifer Jahner
- Against order: medieval, modern, and contemporary critiques of causality / Eleanor Johnson
- Part II. The Corporeality and form
- Diverging forms: disability and the Monk's Tales / Jonathan Hsy
- Figures for 'Gretter knowing': forms in the Treatise on the Astrolabe / Lisa H. Cooper
- The heaviness of prosopoeial form in Chaucer's Book of the Duchess / Julie Orlemanski
- Part III. The forms of reception
- Reading badly: what the Physician's Tale isn't telling us / Thomas A. Prendergast
- Birdsong, love, and the House of Lancaster: Gower reforms Chaucer / Arthur Bahr
- Opening The Canterbury Tales: form and formalism in the General prologue / Stephanie Trigg.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Cambridge Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the J. Bertram Lippincott Library Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781108147682
- 1108147682
- Publisher Number:
- 99977258313
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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