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Literary character : the human figure in early English writing /
"Chaucer introduces the characters of the Knight and the Prioress in the General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales. Beginning with these familiar figures, Elizabeth Fowler develops a new method of analyzing literary character. She argues that words generate human figures in our reading minds by...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2003.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: The Arguments of Person
- Social Persons and Cognition
- The Four Parts of the Argument
- Social Persons among the Disciplines
- Character and the Habituation of the Reader: The Pardoner's Thought Experiment
- Psyche's Priests: Chaucer's Project and the Pardoner's Intention
- The Pardoner's Intentions in the History of the Church
- Sexual Figuration and the Habitus
- Habitual Action and the Person
- Reading, Writing, and Habituation
- Persons in the Creation of Social Bonds: Agency and Civil Death in Piers Plowman
- Sexual Agency: Contract, Coverture, and Legal Person
- The Case of Holi Chirche
- Economic Agency: Just Price and Mede Mesurelees
- Political Agency: Constitutional Monarchy and the Marriage of Males
- The Temporality of Social Persons: Value in "The Tunnyng of Elynour Rummynge"
- Seeing through Character
- The Alewife and the Economic Order
- Gender and Money
- Social Persons and the Topos of the Market
- Literary and Other Social Forms in Time
- Architectonic Person and the Grounds of the Polity in The Faerie Queene
- Persons and the Polity
- Proteus' House and the Grounds of the English Constitution
- The Criterion of Fit and the Creation of Persons: Jurisprudence in Tudor Ireland
- Architectonic Character and Dominion in Two Cantos of Mutabilitie
- Afterword: The Obligations of Persons.