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Author:
Van Dyke, Carolynn, 1947-
Title:
Chaucer's agents : cause and representation in Chaucerian narrative / Carolynn Van Dyke.
Publisher:
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,
Copyright Date:
c2005
Description:
371 p. ; 25 cm.
Subject:
Chaucer, Geoffrey,---1400--Technique.
Chaucer, Geoffrey,---1400--Philosophy.
Narration (Rhetoric)--History--To 1500.
Philosophy, Medieval, in literature
Agent (Philosophy) in literature
Causation in literature
Mimesis in literature
Rhetoric, Medieval
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-352) and index.
Contents:
Introduction : Chaucer and the subject of agency -- Dreaming the real : Chaucer does allegory -- Beyond Canacee's ring : animal agency in three Canterbury tales -- "He that alle thing may bynde" : the agency of Chaucer's pagan gods -- Goode women, maydenes and wyves : exemplary agency and its discontents -- "That am nat I" : the wife of Bath, Criseyde, and the possibility of subjective agency -- Seeing through Chaucer : authorial agency and the representation of truth -- Fre agency.
ISBN:
9780838640838
0838640834 (alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)58431769
LCCN:
2005006434
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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