Marion Turner

Chaucerian Conflict

Languages of Antagonism in Late Fourteenth-Century London

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Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a completely new reading of Chaucer. While most critics have seen his work as essentially socially optimistic and congenial, Marion Turner argues that Chaucer was profoundly concerned with conflict and social antagonism. Chaucer's texts are examined alongside a wide variety of poetry and historical documents from the period.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Februar 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 219mm x 202mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9780199207893
• ISBN-10: 0199207895
• Artikelnr.: 22725566

Autorenporträt

Marion Turner gained her doctorate from Oxford in 2002. She was then a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, and is now a Lecturer in Medieval Literatures at King's College London. She has published several articles on Chaucer and his contemporaries, and has also appeared several times on television and radio discussing medieval literature and history.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction: Chaucerian Conflict
* 1: Discursive Turbulence: Slander, the House of Fame, and the
Mercers' Petition
* 2: Urban Treason: Troilus and Criseyde and the Treasonous Aldermen of
1382
* 3: Idealism and Antagonism: Troynovant in the Late Fourteenth Century
* 4: Ricardian Communities: Thomas Usk's Social Fantasies
* 5: Conflicted Compaignyes: The Canterbury Fellowship and Urban
Associational Form
* 6: Conflict Resolved?: The Language of Peace and Chaucer's 'Tale of
Melibee'
* Conclusion