Chaucer's Dead Body - From Corpse to Corpus (Hardcover)

In Chaucer's Dead Body, Thomas Prendergast looks at the material reasons behind Chaucer's transformation into a touchstone for the whole of the Anglophone Middle Ages. This book makes a persuasive and intriguing case that the status of Chaucer's physical body is an index of the status of Chaucer's work, and furthermore that there continues to be a link between corpse and corpus in all of our assertions of positive and negative literary values from Chaucer's time on, Prendergast organizes his study of Chaucer's literary legacy around Chaucer's tomb - around the history of attempts to restore it, to determine its authenticity, and to establish its exact location.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	November 2003
First published:	2004
Authors:	Thomas A. Prendergast
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	188
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-96678-8
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Poetry & poets > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General
LSN:	0-415-96678-7
Barcode:	9780415966788

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