UID:
almahu_9948236329602882
Format:
1 online resource (288 pages) :
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illustrations; digital file(s).
Edition:
Electronic reproduction. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2015. Access may be restricted to users at subscribing institutions.
ISBN:
9781526103154
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 texts and material culture. Associations between medieval architecture, pilgrim practice, manuscript illustration and the soundscapes of dramatic performance reposition how we read Chaucer’s oeuvre and what gets made of it. An invaluable resource for scholars and students of all levels with an interest in medieval English literary studies and early modern drama, Transporting Chaucer offers a new approach to how we encounter texts through time.
Content:
"What happens when Chaucer turns up where we don’t expect him to be? Transporting Chaucer draws on the work of the British sculptor Antony Gormley alongside more traditional literary scholarship to show that Chaucer’s play with textual history and chronological time prefigures how his poetry becomes incorporate with later (and earlier) texts. The shuttling of bodies, names, and sounds in and amongst works that Chaucer did write anticipates Chaucerian presences in later (and earlier) works that he did not. Chaucer’s characters, including ‘himself’ refuse to stay put in one place and time. This book bypasses the chronological borders of literary succession to read The Canterbury Tales and Chaucer’s Dream Vision poetry in present company with Chaucerian ‘apocrypha’, and works by Shakespeare, Davenant and Dryden. Conventional models of source and analogue study are re-energised to reveal unexpected (and sometimes unsettling) literary cohabitations and re-placements. Barr presents innovative readings of relationships between medieval texts and early modern drama, and between literary texts and material culture. Associations between medieval architecture, pilgrim practice, manuscript illustration, and the soundscapes of dramatic performance reposition how we read Chaucer’s oeuvre and what gets made of it. Written for scholars and students (undergraduate and graduate) who work in medieval English literary studies and early modern drama, Transporting Chaucer offers a new approach to how we encounter texts through time." --Back cover.
Note:
Made available via: manchesterhive.
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MUP 2020 titles.
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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.
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Also available in print form.
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Mode of access: internet via World Wide Web.
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System requirements: Adobe Acrobat or other PDF reader (latest version recommended), Internet Explorer or other browser (latest version recommended).
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In English.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Barr, Helen. Transporting Chaucer, Manchester, UK. : Manchester University Press, 2014, ISBN 9780719091490
Language:
English
DOI:
10.7765/9781526103154
URL:
https://www.manchesterhive.com/view/9781526103154/9781526103154.xml
URL:
https://dx.doi.org/10.7765/9781526103154
