Chaucerian play : comedy and control in the Canterbury tales / Laura Kendrick
Berkeley : University of California Press, 1988. 1st Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #447124
ISBN: 0520061942
Physical description: (xi, 215 p., [24] p. of plates ) ill. Notes: Includes index.Bibliography: p. 175-208. English. Contents: Introduction : Laughter, play, and fiction -- 1. Reading for "sentence" versus reading for "solas" : a broadening example -- 2. The spirit versus the flesh in art and interpretation -- 3. Power and play : the consolations of fiction I -- 4. Dangerous desires and play : the consolations of fiction II -- 5. Breaking verbal taboos : the consolations of fiction III -- "Straw for youre gentillesse" : symbolic rebellion in the 'Canterbury tales' -- Deauthorizing the text : setting up the game of the 'Canterbury tales' -- Conclusion : the 'Canterbury tales' as stabilized and stabilizing structure. Subjects:
Chaucer, Geoffrey -1400. Canterbury tales. Chaucer, Geoffrey -1400 Humor.Comic, The, in literature. Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature History and criticism. Tales, Medieval.
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