False Fables and Exemplary Truth in Later Middle English Literature

False Fables and Exemplary Truth in Later Middle English Literature
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Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Total Pages : 240
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ISBN-10 : 1403967970
ISBN-13 : 9781403967978
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Book Synopsis False Fables and Exemplary Truth in Later Middle English Literature by : Elizabeth Allen

Download or read book False Fables and Exemplary Truth in Later Middle English Literature written by Elizabeth Allen and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-08-20 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Studying this debate reveals a set of local literary histories, based on both canonical and non-canonical texts, that complicate received notions of the didactic Middle Ages, the sophisticated Renaissance, and the fallow fifteenth century in between.


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