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Chaucer's Agents
Carolynn Van Dyke
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Description for Chaucer's Agents
Hardback. Num Pages: 371 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 168 x 25. Weight in Grams: 708.
The ever-proliferating views of Chaucer's texts amount in part to disagreements about who or what determines his narratives: lifelike characters, doctrinal principles, the cycles of history, material conditions, the prototypical subject, the reader, even the text itself. In Chaucer's Agents, Carolynn Van Dyke shifts our focus from any particular kind of cause to the representation of cause itself that is, to agency. 'Agency' is widely used but seldom defined. Indeed, academic writers use it in contrary ways. To linguists, philosophers, and most social scientists, it means the power to initiate actions, but economists and legal scholars define it as ... Read more
The ever-proliferating views of Chaucer's texts amount in part to disagreements about who or what determines his narratives: lifelike characters, doctrinal principles, the cycles of history, material conditions, the prototypical subject, the reader, even the text itself. In Chaucer's Agents, Carolynn Van Dyke shifts our focus from any particular kind of cause to the representation of cause itself that is, to agency. 'Agency' is widely used but seldom defined. Indeed, academic writers use it in contrary ways. To linguists, philosophers, and most social scientists, it means the power to initiate actions, but economists and legal scholars define it as ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
Number of pages
371
Condition
New
Number of Pages
371
Place of Publication
Cranbury, United States
ISBN
9781611473193
SKU
V9781611473193
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99-15
About Carolynn Van Dyke
Carolynn Van Dyke is Francis A. March Professor of English at Lafayette College.
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