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Chaucer and the Ethics of Time

Chaucer and the Ethics of Time examines Chaucer's formal and discursive preoccupation with time in his works, highlighting how interactions between the interior phenomenon of time-consciousness and the exterior pressures of time-passage and change complicate ethical scenarios and human experien...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Adler, Gillian
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2022.
Colección:New century Chaucer.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1 Elegiac Time and the Pleasure of Forgetting in the Book of the Duchess
  • 2 Seeing Time and the Illusion of Control in Troilus and Criseyde
  • 3 'What may ever laste?': Narrativising Transience in the House of Fame
  • 4 The Process of Time in the Parliament of Fowls
  • 5 Nonlinear Time in Chaucer's Frame-Narrative and the Wife of Bath's Prologue
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography