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False Fables and Exemplary Truth: Poetics and Reception of Medieval Mode - The New Middle Ages
E. Allen
False Fables and Exemplary Truth: Poetics and Reception of Medieval Mode - The New Middle Ages
E. Allen
This study charts relationships between moral claims and audience response in medieval exemplary works by such poets as Chaucer, Gower, Robert Henryson, and several anonymous scribes. In late medieval England, exemplary works make one of the strongest possible claims for the social value of poetic fiction.
240 pages, black & white illustrations
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | September 6, 2005 |
ISBN13 | 9781403967978 |
Publishers | Palgrave USA |
Pages | 225 |
Dimensions | 158 × 210 × 18 mm · 390 g |