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Chaucer and the subversion of form / edited by Thomas A. Prendergast and Jessica Rosenfeld.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
J. Bertram Lippincott Library Fund.
Prendergast, Thomas A. (Thomas Augustine), editor.
Rosenfeld, Jessica, 1976- editor.
Cambridge University Press.
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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