Chaucer and the subversion of form /
Responding to the lively resurgence of literary formalism, this volume delivers a timely and fresh exploration of the works of Geoffrey Chaucer. Advancing 'new formalist' approaches, medieval scholars have begun to ask what happens when structure fails to yield meaning, probing the very li...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2018.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in medieval literature ;
104. |
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half-title; Series information; Title page; Copyright information; Table of contents; List of contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Formalism and Medieval Literature; New Formalisms in Medieval Literary Studies; The Subversions of Form; Notes; Part I The Failures of Form; Chapter 1 "many a lay and many a thing": Chaucer's Technical Terms; Notes; Chapter 2 Chaucer's Aesthetic Resources: Nature, Longing, and Economies of Form; Roundness: Boethian Sense-Perception and the Apprehension of Form; Purposiveness: Kant, Free Natural Beauty, and the Formal Object.
- Insufficiencies: "The Former Age" and "Fortune" in Cambridge University Library, MS Ii.3.21Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 3 Against Order: Medieval, Modern, and Contemporary Critiques of Causality; The House of Fame; To the Lighthouse; My Life; Notes; Part II The Corporeality of Form; Chapter 4 Diverging Forms: Disability and the Monk's Tales; Renouncing Form; Form and Genre of "Tragedie"; Asserting Norms; Breaking Form; Formal Prosthesis; Disability Futures; Notes; Chapter 5 Figures for "Gretter Knowing": Forms in the Treatise on the Astrolabe.
- "Ful notable fourme": Textual, Mechanical, and Cosmological Wholes"In manere of a nett": The Cosmic Network; "Ones for evere" and "Evermo": Reliable Knowledge, Eternal Rhythms; "All the world": Nonhierarchical Binaries, or The Equinox Effect; Notes; Chapter 6 The Heaviness of Prosopopoeial Form in Chaucer's Book of the Duchess; Notes; Part III The Forms of Reception; Chapter 7 Reading Badly: What the Physician's Tale Isn't Telling Us; Notes; Chapter 8 Birdsong, Love, and the House of Lancaster Gower Reforms Chaucer: Gower Reforms Chaucer; Notes.
- Chapter 9 Opening The Canterbury Tales: Form and Formalism in the General PrologueNotes; Bibliography; Index.
