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Alastair Minnis

Fallible Authors: Chaucer's Pardoner and Wife of Bath

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Fallible AuthorsChaucer's Pardoner and Wife of BathAlastair MinnisIn pages rich with explication of scholastic, literary, and historical material, Minnis recovers a medieval notion of authorial fallibility.--Seth Lerer, TimesOnlineCan an outrageously immoral man or a scandalous woman teach morality or lead people to virtue? Does personal fallibility devalue one's words and deeds? Is it possible to separate the private from the public, to segregate individual failing from official function? Chaucer addressed these perennial issues through two problematic authority figures, the Pardoner and the Wife of Bath. The Pardoner dares to assume officia… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-8122-4030-6
  • EAN: 9780812240306
  • Produktnummer: 3090524
  • Verlag: Univ Of Pennsylvania Pr
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
  • Seitenangabe: 510 S.
  • Masse: H23.9 cm x B16.7 cm x D3.8 cm 1'021 g
  • Gewicht: 1021

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Alastair Minnis is Professor of English at Yale University. He is the author of many articles and books, including Medieval Theory of Authorship, and is coeditor of The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, vol. 2: The Middle Ages.

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