Although widely beloved for its playfulness and comic sensibility,
Chaucer's poetry is also subtly shot through with dark moments that
open into obscure and irresolvably haunting vistas, passages into
which one might fall head-first and never reach the abyssal bottom,
scenes and events where everything could possibly go horribly wrong
or where everything that matters seems, if even momentarily,
altogether and irretrievably lost. And then sometimes, things
really do go wrong. Opting to dilate rather than cordon off this
darkness, this volume assembles a variety of attempts to follow
such moments into their folds of blackness and horror, to chart
their endless sorrows and recursive gloom, and to take depth
soundings in the darker recesses of the Chaucerian lakes in order
to bring back palm- or bite-sized pieces (black jewels) of bitter
Chaucer that could be shared with others . . . an assortment, if
you will. Not that this collection finds only emptiness and
non-meaning in these caves and lakes. You never know what you will
discover in the dark. Contents: Candace Barrington, "Dark
Whiteness: Benjanim Brawley and Chaucer" -- Brantley L. Bryant
& Alia, "Saturn's Darkness" -- Ruth Evans, "A Dark Stain and a
Non-Encounter" -- Gaelan Gilbert, "Chaucerian Afterlives: Reception
and Eschatology" -- Leigh Harrison, "Black Gold: The Former (and
Future) Age" -- Nicola Masciandaro, "Half Dead: Parsing Cecelia" --
J. Allan Mitchell, "In the Event of the Franklin's Tale" -- Travis
Neel & Andrew Richmond, "Black as the Crow" -- Hannah Priest,
"Unravelling Constance" -- Lisa Schamess, "L'O de V: A Palimpsest"
-- Myra Seaman, "Disconsolate Art" -- Karl Steel, "Kill Me, Save
Me, Let Me Go: Custance, Virginia, Emelye" -- Elaine Treharne, "The
Physician's Tale as Hagioclasm" -- Bob Valasek, "The Light has
Lifted: Pandare Trickster" -- Lisa Weston, "Suffer the Little
Children, or, A Rumination on the Faith of Zombies" -- Thomas
White, "The Dark Is Light Enough: The Layout of the Tale of Sir
Thopas." This assortment of dark morsels also features a prose-poem
Preface by Gary Shipley.
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