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Genre/Form: | History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Van Dyke, Carolynn, 1947- Chaucer's agents. Madison, N.J. : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, ©2005 (OCoLC)607699523 Online version: Van Dyke, Carolynn, 1947- Chaucer's agents. Madison, N.J. : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, ©2005 (OCoLC)630856064 |
Named Person: | Geoffrey Chaucer; Geoffrey Chaucer; Geoffrey Chaucer; Geoffrey Chaucer; Geoffrey Chaucer; Geoffrey Chaucer; Geoffrey Chaucer; Geoffrey Chaucer |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Carolynn Van Dyke |
ISBN: | 0838640834 9780838640838 |
OCLC Number: | 58431769 |
Description: | 371 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Introduction : Chaucer and the subject of agency -- Dreaming the real : Chaucer does allegory -- Beyond Canacee's ring : animal agency in three Canterbury tales -- "He that alle thing may bynde" : the agency of Chaucer's pagan gods -- Goode women, maydenes and wyves : exemplary agency and its discontents -- "That am nat I" : the wife of Bath, Criseyde, and the possibility of subjective agency -- Seeing through Chaucer : authorial agency and the representation of truth -- Fre agency. |
Responsibility: | Carolynn Van Dyke. |
Abstract:
Critical disagreements about Chaucer arise from divergent assumptions about who or what determines his narratives. This work shifts our focus from particular kinds of cause to the representation of cause itself - that is, to agency. Using modern theories from various disciplines, author analyzes agency with particular reference to narrative.
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