| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
The New Middle Ages |
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New Middle Ages.
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| Contents |
Shame and Guilt, Now and Then -- Shamed Guiltless in Chaucer's Pagan Antiquity -- Honor, Purity, and Sacrifice in the Knight's Tale and the Physician's Tale -- Structures of Reciprocity in Chaucerian Romance -- The Ills of Illocution: Shame, Guilt, and Confession in the Pardoner's Tale and the Parson's Tale -- Conclusion: Chaucer and Medieval Shame Culture |
| Summary |
This book explores Chaucer's representation of shame and guilt in the context of modern affect theory. By showing how shame pervades Chaucer's texts but guilt is largely invisible, inaccessible, or resistant to full disclosure, McTaggart challenges perceptions, positions the work in relation to late medieval debates about confession, and shows how the ethics of affect lie at the heart of Chaucerian poetics |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 fast |
| Subject |
Shame in literature.
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Guilt in literature.
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Literary studies: poetry & poets -- English.
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Literary studies: classical, early & medieval -- English.
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POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Literature.
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Guilt in literature
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Shame in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781137039521 |
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1137039523 |
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9781349340910 |
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134934091X |
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