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Author Ganim, John M

Title Chaucerian Theatricality
Published Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (174 pages)
Series Princeton Legacy Library
Princeton legacy library.
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Summary Whereas modern criticism has emphasized the unity and sense of permanence in The Canterbury Tales, John Ganim alerts us to a dialectically opposing dimension that Chaucer's poetics shares with the popular culture of the late Middle Ages: his celebration of the ephemeral and his sense of performance. Ganim uses the concept of theatricality to illuminate Chaucer's manipulations of the forms of popular culture and high literary discourse. He calls upon recent work in semiotics and social history to question Mikhail Bakhtin's notion of the ""carnivalesque"" and the ""dialogic, "" at the same tim
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Subject Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 -- Knowledge -- Performing arts
SUBJECT Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 -- Knowledge -- Performing arts
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400. Canterbury tales
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 fast
Subject Popular culture -- England -- History -- To 1500
Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature.
Performing arts -- England -- History -- To 1500
Performing arts in literature.
Popular culture in literature.
Carnival in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Carnival in literature
Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature
Performing arts
Performing arts in literature
Popular culture
Popular culture in literature
England
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781400861361
1400861365