Medieval literary politics : shapes of ideology / Sheila Delany
Manchester : Manchester University Press, 1990. First Edition. Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dulled. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #447194
ISBN: 0719030463
Physical description; xiii, 191 pages ; 23 cm. Contents; Run silent, run deep: heresy and alchemy as medieval versions of utopia -- Undoing substantial connection: the late medieval attack on analogical thought -- The politics of allegory in the fourteenth century -- The romance of kingship: Havelok the Dane -- Rewriting woman good: gender and the anxiety of influence in two late-medieval texts -- "Mothers to think back through": who are they? The ambiguous example of Christine de Pizan -- Clerks and quiting in The Reeve's Tale: social structure as a source of irony -- Strategies of silence in the Wife of Bath's recital -- The haunted work: politics and the paralysis of poetic imagination in The Physician's Tale -- "Mulier est hominis confusio": the anti-popular Nun's Priest's Tale -- Women, nature and language: Chaucer's Legend of Good Women. Subjects; English literature Middle English, 1100-1500 History and criticism. French literature To 1500 History and criticism.
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