Chaucer's Afterlife

Adaptations in Recent Popular Culture

Kathleen Forni (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

176 Seiten

2013
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-0-7864-7344-1 (ISBN)

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This study explores Chaucer's present-day cultural reputation by way of popular culture. In just the past two decades his texts have been adapted to a wide variety of popular genres, including television, stage, comic book, hip-hop, science fiction, horror, romance, and crime fiction. This cultural recycling involves a variety of functions but Chaucer's primary association is with the idea of pilgrimage and the prevailing tenor is populist satire. The target is not only cultural elitism but also the dominant discourse of professional Chaucerians. Academics in turn may have doubts about the value of popular Chaucer; popular culture theory, however, would maintain that such skepticism has less to do with critical discrimination than the assertion of social distinction. Nonetheless, the fact that Chaucer has a popular afterlife, and remains an ideological product over which competing groups lay claim, attests to his current cultural vitality.

Kathleen Forni is an associate professor of English at Loyola University Maryland. She lives in Baltimore.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

Introduction: The Popular and the Professional

1. Modes of Intertextual Engagement

2. Chaucer the Detective

3. Chaucer on the TV Screen: The BBC’s Canterbury Tales

deleteand Jonathan Myerson’s Canterbury Tales

4. The Canterbury Pilgrimage and African Diaspora

5. The Chaucer Brand

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index

Zusatzinfo	notes, bibliography, index
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	245 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
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ISBN-10	0-7864-7344-4 / 0786473444
ISBN-13	978-0-7864-7344-1 / 9780786473441
Zustand	Neuware