Chaucerian Theatricality

The Resource Chaucerian Theatricality
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Chaucerian Theatricality
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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
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EBLCP
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

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