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Consolation in Medieval Narrative

Augustinian Authority and Open Form [Hardback]

by C. Schrock

    • Author

      C. Schrock

    • Book Format

      Hardback

    • Publisher

      Palgrave Macmillan

    • Published

      May 2015

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      Consolation in Medieval Narrative

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      This book is the first scholarship to map in detail the shape, origins, and rhetorical function of a narrative form authors in the medieval period learned from Augustine's two great histories: the personal Confessions and the political and ecclesiastical City of God. The form's simple and flexible shape - prospect, fulfillment, interpretive retrospect - derives from Augustine's Christian exegetical practice. Because its meaning resides in retrospective and open interpretation of a climactic center, the form emerges as a consolatory narrative alternative to the closures of Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy in key medieval texts manifesting personal, political, and ecclesiastical crisis: Peter Abelard's History of My Calamities, William Langland's Piers Plowman, the anonymous Stanzaic Morte, Geoffrey Chaucer's Knight's Tale, and Thomas More's Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation.

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      • Author

        C. Schrock

      • Book Format

        Hardback

      • Publisher

        Palgrave Macmillan

      • Published

        May 2015

      • Weight

        450g

      • Page Count

        260

      • Dimensions

        140 x 216 x 17 mm

      • ISBN

        9781137453358

      • ISBN-10

        1137453354

      • Eden Code

        4316370

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      • Author/Creator: C. Schrock

      • ISBN: 9781137453358

      • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

      • Release Date: May 2015

      • Weight: 450g

      • Dimensions: 140 x 216 x 17 mm

      • Eden Code: 4316370


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