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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... history , material conditions , the prototypical subject , the reader , even the text itself . In Chaucer's Agents , Carolynn Van Dyke shifts our focus from any particular kind of cause to the representation of cause itself- that is ...
... history , material conditions , the prototypical subject , the reader , even the text itself . In Chaucer's Agents , Carolynn Van Dyke shifts our focus from any particular kind of cause to the representation of cause itself- that is ...
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... history must at some point accommodate the issue of agency , not as a matter of choice , but as a mat- ter of ontology , that is as a constituent element of the real- ity which we confront and which we hope to understand . —John C ...
... history must at some point accommodate the issue of agency , not as a matter of choice , but as a mat- ter of ontology , that is as a constituent element of the real- ity which we confront and which we hope to understand . —John C ...
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... historical models for the Canterbury pilgrims . G. L. Kittredge and others imi- tated the literal - minded Duchess narrator ( though with more sophis- tication ) when they treated the pilgrims as " dramatis personae " who " move by ...
... historical models for the Canterbury pilgrims . G. L. Kittredge and others imi- tated the literal - minded Duchess narrator ( though with more sophis- tication ) when they treated the pilgrims as " dramatis personae " who " move by ...
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... historical particularity and transhistorical generality . " H. Marshall Leicester , Jr. , centers his readings on " voice , " which he defines to in- clude " the dynamics of self and subject , the undecidable play be- tween the ...
... historical particularity and transhistorical generality . " H. Marshall Leicester , Jr. , centers his readings on " voice , " which he defines to in- clude " the dynamics of self and subject , the undecidable play be- tween the ...
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... literary studies but more broadly . Agency and agent appear in hundreds of recent publications on ( for instance ) anthropology , archaeology , computer science , economics , history , law , linguistics , 16 CHAUCER'S AGENTS.
... literary studies but more broadly . Agency and agent appear in hundreds of recent publications on ( for instance ) anthropology , archaeology , computer science , economics , history , law , linguistics , 16 CHAUCER'S AGENTS.
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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Chaucer's Agents: Cause and Representation in Chaucerian Narrative Carolynn Van Dyke No preview available - 2006 |
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