Screen LibraryEthics and eventfulness in middle English literature
This study explores how fortune functions in relation to wider concerns about ethics and eventfulness in the works of Chaucer, Gower, Lydgate and Malory.
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| Literature type: | Electronic Software eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New Middle Ages |
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http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230620728 |
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This study explores how fortune functions in relation to wider concerns about ethics and eventfulness in the works of Chaucer, Gower, Lydgate and Malory. "Ethics and Eventfulness is a bold and learned attempt to rethink the influence of Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy on the English Middle Ages by re-positioning medieval thinking about Lady Fortune in terms appropriate to current philosophical and rhetorical discourses. Mitchell's analysis demonstrates both breadth and intimacy with medieval texts and their intellectual contexts, as he deals with Chaucer, Gower, Usk, Lydgate, Malory, and the little-known Chaunce of the Dyse. His fine grasp of contemporary thought allows him to ptopose some surprising congruences with more current idioms, |
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Electronic book text. Originally published in: 2009. |
| Carrier Form: | 204 p. |
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9781403974426 9780230620728 : 0230620728 : |
| CLC: | I561.064 |
| Contents: | Introduction: Conceptual Personae * On Fortune, Philosophy, and Fidelity to the Event * Love and Ethics to Come in Troilus and Criseyde * Consolations of Pandarus: The Testament of Love and The Chaunce of the Dyse * Gower's Confessio Amantis and the Nature of Vernacular Ethics * Telling Fortunes in Lydgate's Fall of Princes * Moral Luck and Malory's Morte D'arthur. |