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False Fables and Exemplary Truth : Poetics and Reception of Medieval Mode / by E. Allen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Allen, E., author.
- Series:
- New Middle Ages
- The New Middle Ages
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Literature, Medieval.
- Philosophy.
- Fiction.
- Ethics.
- Classical literature.
- Poetry.
- Medieval Literature.
- Philosophy, general.
- Classical and Antique Literature.
- Poetry and Poetics.
- Local Subjects:
- Medieval Literature.
- Philosophy, general.
- Fiction.
- Ethics.
- Classical and Antique Literature.
- Poetry and Poetics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Edition:
- First edition 2005.
- Contained In:
- Springer Nature eBook
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
- System Details:
- text file PDF
- Summary:
- This study charts relationships between moral claims and audience response in medieval exemplary works by such poets as Chaucer, Gower, Robert Henryson, and several anonymous scribes. In late medieval England, exemplary works make one of the strongest possible claims for the social value of poetic fiction. Studying this debate reveals a set of local literary histories, based on both canonical and non-canonical texts, that complicate received notions of the didactic Middle Ages, the sophisticated Renaissance, and the fallow fifteenth century in between.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Albert C. Baugh Book Fund.
- Other Format:
- Printed edition:
- ISBN:
- 9781137044792
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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