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Chaucerian Theatricality
By (Author) John M. Ganim
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
23rd September 2014
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
821.1
Paperback
174
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
227g
Whereas modern criticism has emphasized the unity and sense of permanence in The Canterbury Tales, John Ganim alerts us to a dialectically opposing dimension that Chaucer's poetics shares with the popular culture of the late Middle Ages: his celebration of the ephemeral and his sense of performance. Ganim uses the concept of theatricality to illumi