The Age of Saturn: Literature and History in the Canterbury Tales - Couverture rigide

Brown, Peter

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0631153519 ISBN 13 : 9780631153511

Editeur : Blackwell Publishers, 1991

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The Age of Saturn Examines how Chaucer's poetry is full of exploratory links between individual and social spheres, which are particularly apparent in the themes of astrology, religion, trade, political crisis and myth. The authors analyze six of the tales to shed light on the crises of the period. Full description

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A conspicuous feature of The Canterbury Tales is the wayChaucer anchors general features of social upheaval in theexperience of individuals, using marriage, for example, as amicrocosm for larger forms of ′governance′, whether social,political or religious.

In The Age of Saturn Peter Brown and Andrew Butcherexplore how Chaucer′s poetry is full of exploratory links betweenindividual and social spheres, which are particularly apparent inthe themes of astrology, religion, trade, political crisis andmyth. The authors closely analyse six of the tales, and use them toshed light on the crises of the period, those fifty years or sofollowing the Black Death: a period of uncertainty and anxiety theycall the ′Age of Saturn′.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Blackwell Publishers
• Date d'édition: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0631153519
• ISBN 13: 9780631153511
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 320