False Fables and Exemplary Truth

Poetics and Reception of Medieval Mode

By:

E Allen

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Hardback

Series:

The New Middle Ages

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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.

Author Biography:

ELIZABETH ALLEN is Assistant Professor of English, University of California-Irvine, USA.

Release date Australia

September 6th, 2005

Author

E Allen

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)
Undergraduate

Illustrations

VIII, 225 p.

Pages

225

Series

The New Middle Ages

Dimensions

140x216x18

ISBN-13

9781403967978

Product ID

3170296

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