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Whereas modern criticism has emphasized the unity and sense of permanence in The Canterbury Tales, John Ganim alerts us to a dialectically opposing dimension that Chaucer's poetics shares with the popular culture of the late Middle Ages: his celebration of the ephemeral and his sense of performance. Ganim uses the concept of theatricality to illumi



Table of Contents
*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. vii*Acknowledgments, pg. ix*CHAPTER ONE. Introduction: Critical Metaphors and Chaucerian Performance, pg. 1*CHAPTER TWO. Bakhtin, Chaucer, Carnival, Lent, pg. 17*CHAPTER THREE. The Poetics of Theatricality, pg. 31*CHAPTER FOUR. Chaucer, Boccaccio, London, Florence, pg. 56*CHAPTER FIVE. Carnival Voices in the Clerk's Envoy, pg. 79*CHAPTER SIX. Poetics in the Prologues, pg. 92*CHAPTER SEVEN. The Noise of the People, pg. 108*CHAPTER EIGHT. Forms of Talk, pg. 121*Notes, pg. 137*Works Cited, pg. 149*Index, pg. 159

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      Publisher: Princeton University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 14/07/2014
      ISBN13: 9780691601434, 978-0691601434
      ISBN10: 0691601437
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Whereas modern criticism has emphasized the unity and sense of permanence in The Canterbury Tales, John Ganim alerts us to a dialectically opposing dimension that Chaucer's poetics shares with the popular culture of the late Middle Ages: his celebration of the ephemeral and his sense of performance. Ganim uses the concept of theatricality to illumi



      Table of Contents
      *FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. vii*Acknowledgments, pg. ix*CHAPTER ONE. Introduction: Critical Metaphors and Chaucerian Performance, pg. 1*CHAPTER TWO. Bakhtin, Chaucer, Carnival, Lent, pg. 17*CHAPTER THREE. The Poetics of Theatricality, pg. 31*CHAPTER FOUR. Chaucer, Boccaccio, London, Florence, pg. 56*CHAPTER FIVE. Carnival Voices in the Clerk's Envoy, pg. 79*CHAPTER SIX. Poetics in the Prologues, pg. 92*CHAPTER SEVEN. The Noise of the People, pg. 108*CHAPTER EIGHT. Forms of Talk, pg. 121*Notes, pg. 137*Works Cited, pg. 149*Index, pg. 159

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