False Fables and Exemplary Truth: Poetics and Reception of Medieval Mode by Allen, E.

False Fables and Exemplary Truth: Poetics and Reception of Medieval Mode (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781403967978)

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False Fables and Exemplary Truth: Poetics and Reception of Medieval Mode by Allen, E.

False Fables and Exemplary Truth: Poetics and Reception of Medieval Mode

$54.99
False Fables and Exemplary Truth: Poetics and Reception of Medieval Mode by Allen, E.

False Fables and Exemplary Truth: Poetics and Reception of Medieval Mode

$54.99
Format: Hardcover
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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: E. Allen
ISBN-10: 1403967970
ISBN-13: 9781403967978
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 09/06/2005
Pages: 225
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.86lbs
Size: 8.52h x 5.78w x 0.70d
By E. Allen
By E. Allen
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ELIZABETH ALLEN is Assistant Professor of English, University of California-Irvine, USA.

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