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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Meyer-Lee, Robert John
Titre(s) : Literary value and social identity in the "Canterbury tales" [Texte imprimé] / Robert J. Meyer-Lee
Publication : Cambridge (GB) ; New York : Cambridge university press, 2019
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (x, 282 p.) ; 24 cm
Collection : Cambridge studies in medieval literature ; 108
Lien à la collection : Cambridge studies in medieval literature
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"Literary authors, especially those with other occupations, must come to grips with
the question of why they should write at all, when the world urges them to devote
their time and energy to other pursuits. They must reach, at the very least, a provisional
conclusion regarding the relation between the uncertain value of their literary efforts
and the more immediate values of their non-authorial social identities. Geoffrey Chaucer,
with his several middle-strata identities, grappled with this question in a remarkably
searching, complex manner. In this book, Robert J. Meyer-Lee examines the multiform,
dynamic meditation on the relation between literary value and social identity that
Chaucer stitched into the heart of The Canterbury Tales. He traces the unfolding of
this meditation through what he shows to be the tightly linked performances of Clerk,
Merchant, Franklin and Squire, offering the first full-scale reading of this sequence"
Sujet(s) : Chaucer, Geoffrey (1340?-1400). The Canterbury tales
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781108485661. - ISBN 1108485669 (rel.). - ISBN 9781108757621 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb465027597
Notice n° :
FRBNF46502759
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
