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Chaucer's Legend of Good Women is a testament to the disparate views of women prevalent in the Middle Ages. Dr Percival contends that the complex medieval notion of Woman informs the structure of the poem: in the Prologue Chaucer praises conventional ideas of female virtue, while in the Legends he demonstrates a humorous scepticism, apparently influenced by a contemporary antifeminist tradition. The debate Chaucer thus promotes could be relied on to entertain many medieval readers, at the same time that it demonstrates the power of the vernacular translator/poet to handle language wittily and to do just as he pleases with the august texts of the past. This is a comprehensive account of the Legend's interpretative puzzles, which does not ignore the element of political writing, and adds to a close and nuanced reading of the text an examination of literary, historical, and social contexts.

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Kategoria Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Pełny tytuł: Chaucer's Legendary Good Women
• Autor: Florence Percival
• Język: Angielski
• Oprawa: Miękka
• Liczba stron: 356
• EAN: 9780521020824
• ISBN: 0521020824
• ID: 02018157
• Wydawca: Cambridge University Press
• Waga: 533 g
• Wymiary: 228 × 157 × 22 mm
• Data wydania: 06. October 2005

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