Transporting Chaucer

Drawing on the work of British sculptor Antony Gormley, alongside more traditional literary scholarship, this book argues for new relationships between Chaucer's poetry and works by others. Chaucer's playfulness with textual history and chronology anticipates how his own work is figured in later - and earlier - texts. Responding to this, the book presents innovative readings of the relationships between medieval texts and early modern drama, literary texts and material culture. It re-energises conventional models of source and analogue study to reveal unexpected - and sometimes unsettling - literary cohabitations. At the same time, it exposes how associations between architecture, pilgrim practice, manuscript illustration and the soundscapes of dramatic performance reposition how we read Chaucer's oeuvre and what gets made of it.

An invaluable resource for scholars and students of all levels with an interest in medieval English literary studies and early modern drama, Transporting Chaucer offers a new approach to how we encounter texts through time.

List of contents

Introduction: Transporting Chaucer
1 The figure in the Canterbury stained glass: Chaucerian Beckets
2 Crossing borders: Northumberland bodies unbound
3 Chaucer's hands
4 'Wrinkled deep in time': Emily and Arcite in A Midsummer Night's Dream
5 Bones and bays: on with The Knight's Tale
6 Reverberate Troy: Sounding The House of Fame in Troilus and Cressida
7 Da capo
Index

About the author

Helen Barr is Fellow and Tutor in English Language and Literature at Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford

Summary

Argues for new relationships between Chaucer’s poetry and works by others -- .

Product details

• Authors: Helen Barr, Barr Helen
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2017
• EAN: 9781526123763
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-2376-3
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture; Manchester Medieval Literature; Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture; Manchester Medieval Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, Literary studies: general, Literary theory, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: ancient, classical & medieval