Chaucerian Fiction (eBook)

Robert B. Burlin (Autor)

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2015
304 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-6757-8 (ISBN)

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By analyzing Chaucer's major poetic works, Robert Burlin succeeds in isolating thematic undercurrents with a bearing on the poet's process of composition. He is thus able to relate individual poems to Chaucer's view of himself as a writer, and to assess the internal evidence for a Chaucerian theory of fiction. Professor Burlin contends that a logic underlies Chaucer's aesthetic assumptions whose imaginative configuration appears both simple and inevitable in the context of his poetic development. The author first explores possible antecedents for the terms "experience" and auctoritee, and shows that this common antinomy provides the basis for dividing the poems into three groups.In the "poetic fictions," Chaucer speculates on the value of poetic activity, on the sources of its affect, and on its validity as a means of apprehension. The "philosophic fictions" concentrate on the epistemological aspect of literary activity. In a final group of poems, termed "psychological fictions," the poet explores the speaker's unspoken motives, as well as his pronounced intentions, in telling a tale.Originally published in 1977.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.3.2015
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
• Schlagworte: Allegory • Anathema • Antithesis • aphorism • Apotheosis • Archetype • Breton lai • Chaucer's Retraction • Classicism • Conflation • consolatio • Consummation • Dream Vision • Droit du seigneur • egeus • english poetry • Equanimity • etymology • excursus • Fabliau • Falsity • Fiction • fideism • flattery • Geoffrey of Vinsauf • Giovanni Boccaccio • Gluttony • Gordian Knot • Greed • gullibility • hyperbole • hypocrisy • Irony • Jean de Meun • jeremiad • Joke • literary fiction • Literature • Macrobius • malapropism • Martianus Capella • Melodrama • Metonymy • Miasma (Greek mythology) • mortal sin • narrative • On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth • Opportunism • Ovid • Palinode • pandarus • Parody • personal mythology • philosophical fiction • Philosophy • pity • Platitude • Poetry • proverb • psychological novel • Quibble (plot device) • Rash promise • religious experience • ridicule • Roger Bacon • Romanticism • Satire • SCHOLASTICISM • self-deception • Sententiae • Sentimental comedy • sentimentality • seriousness • simile • Sophistication • Spirituality • Superiority (short story) • Superstition • The Allegory of Love • The Discarded Image • The Dream of Scipio (novel) • The Fall of Princes • The Franklin's Tale • The House of Fame • The Knight's Tale • The Legend of Good Women • The Merchant's Tale • The Narrator • The Nun's Priest's Tale • The Other Hand • The Philosopher • The Prioress's Tale • The Summoner's Tale • The Wife of Bath's Tale • Thomas Aquinas • tragic hero • troilus • Troilus and Criseyde • Trojan War • Unstated assumption
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-6757-6 / 1400867576
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-6757-8 / 9781400867578