False Fables and Exemplary Truth - Poetics and Reception of Medieval Mode (Hardcover)

This study charts relationships between moral claims and audience response in medieval exemplary works by such poets as Chaucer, Gower, Robert Henryson, and several anonymous scribes. In late medieval England, exemplary works make one of the strongest possible claims for the social value of poetic fiction. Studying this debate reveals a set of local literary histories, based on both canonical and non-canonical texts, that complicate received notions of the didactic Middle Ages, the sophisticated Renaissance, and the fallow fifteenth century in between.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	The New Middle Ages
Release date:	2000
First published:	2005
Authors:	E. Allen
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	225
ISBN-13:	978-1-4039-6797-8
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > General Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > General
LSN:	1-4039-6797-0
Barcode:	9781403967978

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