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Chaucerian Theatricality
(Hardback)
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Publishing Details
Full Title:
Chaucerian Theatricality
Contributors:
By (Author) John M. Ganim
Series:
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Imprint:
Princeton University Press
Publication Date:
28th June 2016
Country:
United States
Classifications
Readership:
Tertiary Education
Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:
Non Fiction
Main Subject:
Dewey:
821.1
Physical Properties
Physical Format:
Hardback
Number of Pages:
174
Dimensions:
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
Weight:
397g
Description
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
