False Fables and Exemplary Truth in Later Middle English Literature (New Middle Ages)

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作者Elizabeth Allen

出版社Palgrave Macmillan

ISBN9781403967978

出版时间2005

版次first published

印刷时间2005

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页数240页

定价95元

货号D358

上书时间2013-04-03

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商品描述: 本书原定价95.00美元，净重430克，馆藏。【图书分类：英国中世纪文学的评论和研究】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.

Review：
\" Elizabeth Allen makes a compelling case for medieval reading as a dynamic, ethical activity. Arguing that exemplary stories elicited responses that required “ongoing adjustments to the contingencies of political (as well as social and literary) occasion,” she deftly analyzes the cultural function of medieval narrative. False Fables and Exemplary Truth is a sophisticated and thoughtful book that refines the subject of late medieval exemplarity in important and insightful ways. It will become required reading for every scholar interested in this crucial subject.\"--Rebecca Krug, University of Minnesota

About the Author：
Elizabeth Allen is Assistant Professor of English, University of California-Irvine.