Ethics and eventfulness in Middle English literature / J. Allan Mitchell

• 作者： Mitchell, J. Allan (John Allan) 1971-
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• 出版： New York : Palgrave Macmillan 2009
• 叢書名： The new Middle Ages
• 主題： English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500--History and criticism. , Ethics in literature. , Fortune in literature
• 版本：1st ed.
• ISBN： 9780230620728 、 0230620728
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• 書目註：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 inrelation 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 Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-182) and index
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