Chaucer and the Invention of Biblical Narrative
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-41741-0 (ISBN)
Chad Schrock unravels Chaucer’s Tales in the light of topics important to biblical reception in 14th-century England: authority, textuality, interpretation, translation, rephrasing and marginalia. When the Canterbury Tales are summed up in this way, they show the great extent to which Chaucer was drawing upon the Bible as a meta-poetical resource for his own poetry – its fictional tale-tellers and characters, its quotations, allusions and images, its plots, its imaginative engagement with an audience of listeners and readers, and its hidden intentions.
Schrock demonstrates that the Bible is a uniquely potent literary source for Chaucer because it combines infinite authority and plenitude with unprecedented freedom of interpretive invention. As a world-making text, the Bible’s authority includes the literary as subcategory but surpasses and contextualizes it, which gives Chaucer’s deferential biblical invention a different kind of freedom and safety. Within Chaucer’s tales, a biblical image is often where a given narrative peaks and its plot comes clear, but a biblical world also and without strain contains his biblical fictioneers and whatever they make from the Bible, whether orthodoxy or heresy, whether sin or worship.
Chad D. Schrock is Professor of English at Lee University, USA.
Introduction
1: Authority: The Miller’s Tale
2: Text: The Pardoner’s Tale
3: Reading with the Greyn: Chaucer’s Virgin Mary
4: Reading against the Grain: The Merchant’s Tale
5: Translation: The Franklin’s Tale
6: Gloss: The Summoner’s Tale
7: Marginalia: The Nun’s Priest’s Tale
Works Cited
| Erscheinungsdatum | 29.10.2024 |
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| Reihe/Serie | New Directions in Religion and Literature |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-350-41741-6 / 1350417416 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-41741-0 / 9781350417410 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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