Chaucerian Theatricality

by John M. Ganim

Book Overview

Whereas modern criticism has emphasized the unity and sense of permanence in The Canterbury Tales, John Ganim alerts us to a dialectically opposing dimension that Chaucer's poetics shares with the popular culture of the late Middle Ages: his celebration of the ephemeral and his sense of performance. Ganim uses the concept of theatricality to illuminate Chaucer's manipulations of the forms of popular culture and high literary discourse. He calls...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691601437
• ISBN13: 9780691601434
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 174 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"