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About this book
Temporal Circumstances provides powerful and detailed interpretations of the most important and challenging of the Canterbury Tales. Well-informed and clearly written, this book will interest both those familiar with Chaucer's masterpiece and readers new to it.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Priface
- Introduction: Historicism and Postmodemity
- 1. Putting the Wife in Her Place: The Place of Philology
- 2. Putting the Wife in Her Place: The Place of History
- 3. Freedom and Necessity: The Example of the Clerk's Tale
- 4. Chaucer's Pardoner on the Couch: Psyche and Clio in Medieval Literary Studies
- 5. "What Man Artow?": Authorial Self-Definition in the Tale of Sir Thopas and the Tale of Me Ii bee
- 6. "The Living Witnesses of Our Redemption": Martyrdom and Imitation in the Prioress's Tale
- 7. Perpetual Motion: Alchemy and the Technology of the Self
- Notes
- Index