02091nam 2200433 450 991079567250332120230627180348.09781786838377(electronic bk.)(MiAaPQ)EBC6878222(Au-PeEL)EBL6878222(CKB)21047957200041(EXLCZ)992104795720004120230627d2022 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierChaucer and the ethics of time /Gillian AdlerFirst edition.Cardiff, England :University of Wales Press,[2022]©20221 online resource (164 pages)New Century ChaucerPrint version: Adler, Gillian Chaucer and the Ethics of Time Cardiff : University of Wales Press,c2022 Includes bibliographical references.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.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.New Century ChaucerTime in literatureTime in literature.821.1Adler Gillian1581759MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQ9910795672503321Chaucer and the ethics of time3863547UNINA