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Autore: |
Adler Gillian
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Titolo: |
Chaucer and the ethics of time / / Gillian Adler
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Pubblicazione: | Cardiff, England : , : University of Wales Press, , [2022] |
©2022 | |
Edizione: | First edition. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (164 pages) |
Disciplina: | 821.1 |
Soggetto topico: | Time in literature |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Chaucer and the ethics of time ![]() |
ISBN: | 9781786838377 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910795672503321 |
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