{"product_id":"chaucer-and-the-invention-of-chad-schrock-9781350417458","title":"Chaucer and the Invention of Biblical Narrative","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDemonstrating how Chaucer uses the Bible in \u003ci\u003eThe Canterbury Tales\u003c\/i\u003e as an authoritative literary source and model for his own literary production, this book explores the ways in which the Bible was a key tool for Chaucer's self-definition and innovation as an author.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChad Schrock unravels Chaucer's \u003ci\u003eTales\u003c\/i\u003e in the light of topics important to biblical reception in 14th-century England: authority, textuality, interpretation, translation, rephrasing and marginalia. When the \u003ci\u003eCanterbury Tales\u003c\/i\u003e are summed up in this way, they show the great extent to which Chaucer was drawing upon the Bible as a meta-poetical resource for his own poetry - its fictional tale-tellers and characters, its quotations, allusions and images, its plots, its imaginative engagement with an audience of listeners and readers, and its hidden intentions. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSchrock demonstrates that the Bible is a uniquely potent literary source for Chaucer because it combines infinite authority and plenitude with unprecedented freedom of interpretive invention. As a world-making text, the Bible's authority includes the literary as subcategory but surpasses and contextualizes it, which gives Chaucer's deferential biblical invention a different kind of freedom and safety. Within Chaucer's tales, a biblical image is often where a given narrative peaks and its plot comes clear, but a biblical world also and without strain contains his biblical fictioneers and whatever they make from the Bible, whether orthodoxy or heresy, whether sin or worship.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Chad Schrock\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1350417459\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781350417458\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/28\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.00d","brand":"Chad Schrock","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48437491400959,"sku":"9781350417458","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6a7d8f28-1f74-408d-843a-efead543da99.jpg?v=1777162173","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/chaucer-and-the-invention-of-chad-schrock-9781350417458","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}