Chaucer's Agents: Cause and Representation in Chaucerian NarrativeChaucer's Agents draws on medieval and modern theories of agency to provide fresh readings of the major Chaucerian texts. Collectively, those readings aim to illuminate Chaucer's responses to two greta problems of agency: the degree to which human beings and forces qualify as agents, and the equal reference of "agent" to initiators and instruments. Each chapter surveys medieval conceptions of the agency in question-- allegorical Realities, intelligent animals, pagan gods, women, and the author--and then follows that kind of agent through representative Chaucerian texts. Readers have long recognized Chaucer's interest in questions of causation; Van Dyke shows that his answers to those questions shape, even constitute, his narratives. --Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. |
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... the Possibility of Subjective Agency 180 7. Seeing Through Chaucer : Authorial Agency and the Representation of Truth 8. Fre Agency Notes Works Cited Index 223 264 277 323 353 Acknowledgments THIS BOOK BEGAN AT A NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE.
... the Possibility of Subjective Agency 180 7. Seeing Through Chaucer : Authorial Agency and the Representation of Truth 8. Fre Agency Notes Works Cited Index 223 264 277 323 353 Acknowledgments THIS BOOK BEGAN AT A NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE.
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Cause and Representation in Chaucerian Narrative Carolynn Van Dyke. Acknowledgments THIS BOOK BEGAN AT A NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES Seminar at Brown University in 1994 ; I am grateful to the Endow- ment , to my colleagues in ...
Cause and Representation in Chaucerian Narrative Carolynn Van Dyke. Acknowledgments THIS BOOK BEGAN AT A NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES Seminar at Brown University in 1994 ; I am grateful to the Endow- ment , to my colleagues in ...
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... Book of the Duchess Boece Lenvoy de Chaucer a Bukton Clerk's Tale The Canterbury Tales Canon's Yeoman's Tale Fortune Friar's Tale Franklin's Tale General Prologue The House of Fame Knight's Tale The Legend of Good Women Manciple's Tale ...
... Book of the Duchess Boece Lenvoy de Chaucer a Bukton Clerk's Tale The Canterbury Tales Canon's Yeoman's Tale Fortune Friar's Tale Franklin's Tale General Prologue The House of Fame Knight's Tale The Legend of Good Women Manciple's Tale ...
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... Book of the Duchess seems not to realize that the fers mourned by the man in black is not a chess piece but a woman ( BD 598-1,310 ) . None of the initial identifications is entirely false : the lady was like the all - valuable fers ...
... Book of the Duchess seems not to realize that the fers mourned by the man in black is not a chess piece but a woman ( BD 598-1,310 ) . None of the initial identifications is entirely false : the lady was like the all - valuable fers ...
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... books and is now injecting them into her reconstruction of her earlier marital debates.13 Leicester knows of course that to ask how the Wife of Bath got ac- cess to the literary sources of her prologue is no more legitimate than it ...
... books and is now injecting them into her reconstruction of her earlier marital debates.13 Leicester knows of course that to ask how the Wife of Bath got ac- cess to the literary sources of her prologue is no more legitimate than it ...
Contents
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Dreaming the Real Chaucer Does Allegory | 40 |
Beyond Canacees Ring Animal Agency in Three Canterbury Tales | 73 |
He that alle thing may bynde The Agency of Chaucers Pagan Gods | 108 |
Goode women maydenes and wyves Exemplary Agency and Its Discontents | 148 |
That Am Nat I The Wife of Bath Criseyde and the Possibility of Subjective Agency | 180 |
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