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J. Mitchell

Ethics and Eventfulness in Middle English Literature

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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 t… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-230-62072-8
  • EAN: 9780230620728
  • Produktnummer: 20310072
  • Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
  • Plattform: PDF
  • Masse: 3'709 KB

Über den Autor


J. ALLAN MITCHELL is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Victoria, Canada.

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