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Literary Value and Social Identity in the Canterbury Tales (Hardcover)
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Literary Value and Social Identity in the Canterbury Tales (Hardcover)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
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Literary authors, especially those with other occupations, must
come to grips with the question of why they should write at all,
when the world urges them to devote their time and energy to other
pursuits. They must reach, at the very least, a provisional
conclusion regarding the relation between the uncertain value of
their literary efforts and the more immediate values of their
non-authorial social identities. Geoffrey Chaucer, with his several
middle-strata identities, grappled with this question in a
remarkably searching, complex manner. In this book, Robert J.
Meyer-Lee examines the multiform, dynamic meditation on the
relation between literary value and social identity that Chaucer
stitched into the heart of The Canterbury Tales. He traces the
unfolding of this meditation through what he shows to be the
tightly linked performances of Clerk, Merchant, Franklin and
Squire, offering the first full-scale reading of this sequence.
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