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Record Nr.

UNINA9910481024703321

Autore

Barr Helen <1961->

Titolo

Transporting Chaucer / Helen Barr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, : Manchester University Press, 2017

©2017

ISBN

1-78170-731-6

1-84779-953-1

1-5261-0315-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (299 p.)

Collana

Manchester medieval literature and culture

Disciplina

811/.1

Soggetti

Rezeption

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published in hardback 2014.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-266) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Transporting Chaucer ; Contents; List of plates; Preface; List of abbreviations; Introduction: Transporting Chaucer; 1 The figure in the Canterbury stained glass: Chaucerian Beckets; 2 Crossing borders: Northumberland bodies unbound; 3 Chaucer's hands; 4 'Wrinkled deep in time': Emily and Arcite in  A Midsummer Night's Dream; 5 Bones and bays: on with The Knight's Tale; 6 Reverberate Troy: sounding The House of Fame in Troilus and Cressida; 7 Da capo; Select bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book draws on the work of the British sculptor Antony Gormley alongside more traditional literary scholarship to argue for new relationships between Chaucer's poetry and works by others. Chaucer's playfulness with textual history and chronology anticipates how his own work is figured in later (and earlier) texts. Conventional models of source and analogue study are re-energised to reveal unexpected, and sometimes unsettling, literary cohabitations and re-placements. The author presents innovative readings of relationships between medieval texts and early modern drama, and between literary