False Fables and Exemplary Truth: Poetics and Reception of Medieval Mode

(Part of the The New Middle Ages Series)

by Elizabeth Allen

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This study charts relationships between moral claims and audience response in medieval exemplary works by such poets as Chaucer, Gower, Robert Henryson, and several anonymous scribes. In late medieval England, exemplary works make one of the strongest possible claims for the social value of poetic fiction. Studying this debate reveals a set of local literary histories, based on both canonical and non-canonical texts, that complicate received notions...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1403967970

ISBN13:9781403967978

Release Date:September 2005

Publisher:Palgrave MacMillan

Length:225 Pages

Weight:0.86 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 5.8" x 8.5"

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Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Philosophy

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False Fables and Exemplary Truth: Poetics and Reception of Medieval Mode

(Part of the The New Middle Ages Series)

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