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UNINA9910795672503321 |
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Autore |
Adler Gillian |
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Chaucer and the ethics of time / / Gillian Adler |
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Cardiff, England : , : University of Wales Press, , [2022] |
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©2022 |
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Edizione |
[First edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (164 pages) |
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Collana |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Elegiac Time and the Pleasure of Forgetting in the Book of the Duchess -- 2 Seeing Time and the Illusion of Control in Troilus and Criseyde -- 3 'What may ever laste?': Narrativising Transience in the House of Fame -- 4 The Process of Time in the Parliament of Fowls -- 5 Nonlinear Time in Chaucer's Frame-Narrative and the Wife of Bath's Prologue -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Chaucer and the Ethics of Time examines Chaucer's formal and discursive preoccupation with time in his works, highlighting how interactions between the interior phenomenon of time-consciousness and the exterior pressures of time-passage and change complicate ethical scenarios and human experience. |
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