Chaucer and the ethics of time / Gillian Adler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Adler, Gillian, author.

Series:

New Century Chaucer

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Time in literature.

Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400.

Chaucer, Geoffrey.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (164 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cardiff, England : University of Wales Press, [2022]

Summary:

Chaucer and the Ethics of Time examines Chaucer's formal and discursive preoccupation with time in his works, highlighting how interactions between the interior phenomenon of time-consciousness and the exterior pressures of time-passage and change complicate ethical scenarios and human experience.

Contents:

Cover

Title

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

1 Elegiac Time and the Pleasure of Forgetting in the Book of the Duchess

2 Seeing Time and the Illusion of Control in Troilus and Criseyde

3 'What may ever laste?': Narrativising Transience in the House of Fame

4 The Process of Time in the Parliament of Fowls

5 Nonlinear Time in Chaucer's Frame-Narrative and the Wife of Bath's Prologue

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Adler, Gillian Chaucer and the Ethics of Time

ISBN:

9781786838377