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Love, history and emotion in Chaucer and Shakespeare
A J Et Al Johnston
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Hardcover. This unique collection of essays explores medieval and early modern Troilus texts from Chaucer to Shakespeare. Editor(s): Johnston, Andrew James; West-Pavlov, Russell; Kempf, Elisabeth. Series: Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 224 pages. Dimension: 216 x 138. .
This collection of essays explores medieval and early modern Troilus-texts from Chaucer to Shakespeare. The contributions show how medieval and early modern fictions of Troy use love and other emotions as a means of approaching the problem of tradition. As these texts reflect on their own traditionality, they highlight both the affective nature of temporality and the role of affect in scrutinising tradition itself. Focusing on a specific textual lineage that bridges the conventional period boundaries, the collection participates in an exchange between medievalists and early modernists that seeks to generate a dialogic encounter between the periods with the aim ... Read more
This collection of essays explores medieval and early modern Troilus-texts from Chaucer to Shakespeare. The contributions show how medieval and early modern fictions of Troy use love and other emotions as a means of approaching the problem of tradition. As these texts reflect on their own traditionality, they highlight both the affective nature of temporality and the role of affect in scrutinising tradition itself. Focusing on a specific textual lineage that bridges the conventional period boundaries, the collection participates in an exchange between medievalists and early modernists that seeks to generate a dialogic encounter between the periods with the aim ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Language
English
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Series
Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719090226
SKU
V9780719090226
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About A J Et Al Johnston
Andrew James Johnston is Chair of Medieval and Renaissance English Literature at the Freie Universitat Berlin Russell West-Pavlov is Chair of English - Anglophone Literatures and Cultures - at the Eberhard Karls Universitat Tuebingen Elisabeth Kempf is a graduate student at the Freie Universitat Berlin -- .
Reviews for Love, history and emotion in Chaucer and Shakespeare
'This volume marks a significant contribution to the ongoing scrutiny of the dynamic between Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde and Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida.' Rachel Stenner, University of Sheffield, The Spenser Review, May 2016
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