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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc History |
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Named Person: | Geoffrey Chaucer; Geoffrey Chaucer; Geoffrey Chaucer; Geoffrey Chaucer; Geoffrey Chaucer |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
James J Paxson; Lawrence M Clopper; Sylvia Tomasch; Martin Stevens |
ISBN: | 0859915271 9780859915274 |
OCLC Number: | 39116722 |
Description: | ix, 198 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
Contents: | Sponsorship, reflexivity and resistance : cultural readings of the York cycle plays / Kathleen Ashley -- Eliding the "medieval" : Renaissance "new historicism" and sixteenth-century drama / Richard K. Emmerson -- "Se in what stat thou doyst indwell" : the shifting constructions of gender and power relations in Wisdom / Marlene Clark, Sharon Kraus, Pamela Sheingorn -- Chaucerian critique of medieval theatricality / Seth Lerer -- Experience of modernity in late medieval literature : urbanism, experience and rhetoric in some early descriptions of London / John M. Ganim -- Noah's wife's flood / Alfred David -- Textual pleasure in the Miller's tale / Richard Daniels -- Petrarch, Chaucer and the making of the Clerk / Warren Ginsberg -- Crisis of mediation in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde / Robert W. Hanning -- Reading Chaucer ab ovo : mock-exemplum in the Nun's Priest's tale / Peter W. Travis -- Postmodern performance : counter-reading Chaucer's Clerk's tale and Maxine Hong Kingston's "No Name Woman" / William McClellan. |
Responsibility: | edited by James J. Paxson, Lawrence M. Clopper, Sylvia Tomasch. |
Abstract:
First detailed examination of theatricality in Chaucer and in Middle English literature and culture as a whole.
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