Title Ethics and exemplary narrative in Chaucer and Gower / J. Allan Mitchell

Published Cambridge ; Rochester, NY : D.S. Brewer, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (157 pages) Series Chaucer studies, 0261-9822 ; 33 Chaucer studies ; 33. 0261-9822 Contents Reading for the moral : controversies and trajectories -- Rhetorical reason : cases, conscience, and circumstances -- Gower for example : Confessio Amantis and The measure of the case -- All that is written for our doctrine : proof, remembrance, conscience -- Moral chaucer : ethics of exemplarity in the Canterbury tales -- Pointing the moral : the friar, summoner, and pardoner's satire -- Griselda and the question of ethical monstrosity Summary A lively defence of the ethics of exemplary narrative, and a detailed account of its forms and functioning in the works of Geoffrey Chaucer and John Gower Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-153) and index Notes Print version record Subject Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 -- Ethics Gower, John, 1325?-1408. Confessio amantis Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 -- Technique Gower, John, 1325?-1408 -- Technique Gower, John, 1325?-1408 -- Ethics SUBJECT Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 fast Gower, John, 1325?-1408 fast Confessio amantis (Gower, John) fast Subject Ethics, Medieval, in literature. Exempla in literature. Rhetoric, Medieval. POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. HISTORY -- Medieval. Ethics Ethics, Medieval, in literature Exempla in literature Rhetoric, Medieval Technique Ethiek. Retorica. Exempelen. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781846152672 1846152674

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