Narrative, Authority and Power - The Medieval Exemplum and the Chaucerian Tradition

Klappentext A study of how Chaucer and his successors used the exemplum as a vehicle for establishing the moral authority of their emerging vernacular tradition. Zusammenfassung Little attention has been paid to the political and ideological significance of the medieval exemplum! a brief narrative form used to illustrate a moral. Through a study of four major works in the Chaucerian tradition! Professor Scanlon redefines the exemplum as a 'narrative enactment of cultural authority'. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Introduction: Exemplarity and Authority in the Middle Ages: 1. Chaucer's Parson; 2. Redefining the exemplum: narrative, ideology and subjectivity; 3. Auctoritas and potestas: a model of analysis for medieval culture; Part I. The Latin Tradition: 4. The sermon exemplum; 5. The public exemplum; Part II. The Chaucerian Tradition: 6. Exemplarity and the Chaucerian tradition; 7. Canterbury Tales (I): from preacher to prince; 8. Canterbury Tales (II): from preaching to poetry; 9. Bad examples: Gower's Confessio Amantis; 10. The Chaucerian tradition in the fifteenth century; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Scanlon Larry, Larry Scanlon
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.11.2007
• EAN: 9780521044257
• ISBN: 978-0-521-04425-7
• No. of pages: 392
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies