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Anne McTaggart - Shame and Guilt in Chaucer - 9781349340910 - V9781349340910
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Shame and Guilt in Chaucer

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Description for Shame and Guilt in Chaucer Paperback. Explores the representation of emotions as psychological concepts and cultural constructs in Geoffrey Chaucer's narrative poetry. McTaggart argues that Chaucer's main works including The Canterbury Tales are united thematically in their positive view of guilt and in their anxiety about the desire for sacrifice and vengeance that shame can provoke. Series: The New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 205 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSC; HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Explores the representation of emotions as psychological concepts and cultural constructs in Geoffrey Chaucer's narrative poetry. McTaggart argues that Chaucer's main works including The Canterbury Tales are united thematically in their positive view of guilt and in their anxiety about the desire for sacrifice and vengeance that shame can provoke.

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
205
Condition
New
Series
The New Middle Ages
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349340910
SKU
V9781349340910
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15

About Anne McTaggart
ANNE MCTAGGART is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Western Ontario, Canada.

Reviews for Shame and Guilt in Chaucer
"Coinciding with the current wave of emotion scholarship, Shame and Guilt in Chaucer is a well-timed contribution to Chaucer studies. McTaggart's exploration of the intersections between shame, guilt, and penance in Chaucer's work is carefully undertaken and usefully draws together threads from psychoanalytical and anthropological scholarship, as well as feminist criticism, confession studies, and the history of emotion (particularly shame ... Read more

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