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False Fables and Exemplary Truth

Name: False Fables and Exemplary Truth
Price: 46.37 GBP
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Author: Elizabeth Allen
ISBN: 9781403967978

Poetics and Reception of Medieval Mode

by Elizabeth Allen

Hardback
240 pages
Publisher: Palgrave USA
14 x 21.6 x 1.5 cm

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For history students and literature enthusiasts.

Shows how medieval tales shaped social values.

Gain new insight into our literary heritage.

A fascinating scholarly study exploring how moral stories influenced audiences in medieval England.

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This study charts relationships between moral claims and audience response in medieval exemplary works by such poets as Chaucer, Gower, Robert Henryson, and several anonymous scribes. In late medieval England, exemplary works make one of the strongest possible claims for the social value of poetic fiction. Studying this debate reveals a set of local literary histories, based on both canonical and non-canonical texts, that complicate received notions of the didactic Middle Ages, the sophisticated Renaissance, and the fallow fifteenth century in between.