Ethics and Eventfulness in Middle English Literature [electronic resource] / by J. Mitchell.

Erişim Adresi
Link
ISBN
9780230620728
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yer Numarası
DK/32956
Yazar
Mitchell, J.
Basım Bildirimi
1st ed. 2009.
Yayın Bilgisi
New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Fiziksel Niteleme
XIV, 187 p. online resource.
Dizi
The New Middle Ages, 2945-5944
Özet, vb.
Medieval writers were fascinated by fortune and misfortune, yet the critical problems raised by such explorations have not been adequately theorized. Allan Mitchell invites us to consider these contingencies in relation to an "ethics of the event." His book examines how Middle English writers including Chaucer, Gower, Lydgate, and Malory treat unpredictable events such as sexual attraction, political disaster, social competition, traumatic accidents, and the textual condition itself - locating in fortune the very potentiality of ethical life. While earlier scholarship has detailed the iconography of Lady Fortune, this book alters and advances the conversation so that we see fortune less as a negative exemplum than as a positive sign of radical phenomena.
Konu
Literature, Medieval.
Literature __ Philosophy.
Medieval Literature.
Literary Theory.
Kurum Adı
SpringerLink (Online service)
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