UID:
edocfu_9959229786002883
Format:
1 online resource (299 p.)
ISBN:
1-78170-731-6
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1-84779-953-1
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1-5261-0315-X
Series Statement:
Manchester medieval literature and culture
Content:
This book draws on the work of the British sculptor Antony Gormley alongside more traditional literary scholarship to argue for new relationships between Chaucer's poetry and works by others. Chaucer's playfulness with textual history and chronology anticipates how his own work is figured in later (and earlier) texts. Conventional models of source and analogue study are re-energised to reveal unexpected, and sometimes unsettling, literary cohabitations and re-placements. The author presents innovative readings of relationships between medieval texts and early modern drama, and between literary
Note:
First published in hardback 2014.
,
Cover; Transporting Chaucer ; Contents; List of plates; Preface; List of abbreviations; Introduction: Transporting Chaucer; 1 The figure in the Canterbury stained glass: Chaucerian Beckets; 2 Crossing borders: Northumberland bodies unbound; 3 Chaucer's hands; 4 'Wrinkled deep in time': Emily and Arcite in A Midsummer Night's Dream; 5 Bones and bays: on with The Knight's Tale; 6 Reverberate Troy: sounding The House of Fame in Troilus and Cressida; 7 Da capo; Select bibliography; Index
,
English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-5261-2376-2
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-7190-9149-7
Language:
English
DOI:
10.7765/9781526103154
