The Resource Chaucerian Theatricality
Chaucerian Theatricality
Resource Information
The item Chaucerian Theatricality represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri-St. Louis Libraries.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
Resource Information
The item Chaucerian Theatricality represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri-St. Louis Libraries.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- 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 illuminate Chaucer's manipulations of the forms of popular culture and high literary discourse. He calls upon recent work in semiotics and social history to question Mikhail Bakhtin's notion of the ""carnivalesque"" and the ""dialogic, "" at the same tim
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (174 pages)
- Note
- Cover; Contents
- Contents
-
- ""Cover ""; ""Contents""
- Isbn
- 9781400861361
- Label
- Chaucerian Theatricality
- Title
- Chaucerian Theatricality
- Subject
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- Carnival in literature
- Carnival in literature
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 -- Knowledge | Performing arts
- Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature
- Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature
- Electronic books
- England
- History
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- European | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Performing arts
- Performing arts -- England -- History -- To 1500
- Performing arts in literature
- Performing arts in literature
- Popular culture
- Popular culture -- England -- History -- To 1500
- Popular culture in literature
- Popular culture in literature
- To 1500
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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 illuminate Chaucer's manipulations of the forms of popular culture and high literary discourse. He calls upon recent work in semiotics and social history to question Mikhail Bakhtin's notion of the ""carnivalesque"" and the ""dialogic, "" at the same tim
- Cataloging source
- EBLCP
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Ganim, John M
- Dewey number
- 821.1
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PR1875.P45
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
- Series statement
- Princeton Legacy Library
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Chaucer, Geoffrey
- Popular culture
- Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature
- Performing arts
- Performing arts in literature
- Popular culture in literature
- Carnival in literature
- Chaucer, Geoffrey
- Chaucer, Geoffrey
- Chaucer, Geoffrey
- LITERARY CRITICISM
- POETRY
- Carnival in literature
- Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature
- Performing arts
- Performing arts in literature
- Popular culture
- Popular culture in literature
- England
- Label
- Chaucerian Theatricality
- Note
- Cover; Contents
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- ""Cover ""; ""Contents""
- Control code
- 884013149
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (174 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781400861361
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctt735xxp
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)884013149
- Label
- Chaucerian Theatricality
- Note
- Cover; Contents
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- ""Cover ""; ""Contents""
- Control code
- 884013149
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (174 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781400861361
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctt735xxp
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)884013149
Subject
- Carnival in literature
- Carnival in literature
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 -- Knowledge | Performing arts
- Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature
- Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature
- Electronic books
- England
- History
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- European | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Performing arts
- Performing arts -- England -- History -- To 1500
- Performing arts in literature
- Performing arts in literature
- Popular culture
- Popular culture -- England -- History -- To 1500
- Popular culture in literature
- Popular culture in literature
- To 1500
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