Dark Chaucer: An Assortment
Although widely beloved for its playfulness and comic sensibility, Chaucer’s poetry is also subtly shot through with dark moments that open into obscure and irresolvably haunting vistas, passages into which one might fall head-first and never reach the abyssal bottom, scenes and events where everyth...
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| description | Although widely beloved for its playfulness and comic sensibility, Chaucer’s poetry is also subtly shot through with dark moments that open into obscure and irresolvably haunting vistas, passages into which one might fall head-first and never reach the abyssal bottom, scenes and events where everything could possibly go horribly wrong or where everything that matters seems, if even momentarily, altogether and irretrievably lost. And then sometimes, things really do go wrong. Opting to dilate rather than cordon off this darkness, this volume assembles a variety of attempts to follow such moments into their folds of blackness and horror, to chart their endless sorrows and recursive gloom, and to take depth soundings in the darker recesses of the Chaucerian lakes in order to bring back palm- or bite-sized pieces (black jewels) of bitter Chaucer that could be shared with others . . . an “assortment,” if you will. Not that this collection finds only emptiness and non-meaning in these caves and lakes. You never know what you will discover in the dark. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-385762025-02-11T07:30:44Z Dark Chaucer: An Assortment Seaman, Myra Joy, Eileen A. Masciandaro, Nicola Chaucer literary criticism sarkness poetry medieval thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBB Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval Although widely beloved for its playfulness and comic sensibility, Chaucer’s poetry is also subtly shot through with dark moments that open into obscure and irresolvably haunting vistas, passages into which one might fall head-first and never reach the abyssal bottom, scenes and events where everything could possibly go horribly wrong or where everything that matters seems, if even momentarily, altogether and irretrievably lost. And then sometimes, things really do go wrong. Opting to dilate rather than cordon off this darkness, this volume assembles a variety of attempts to follow such moments into their folds of blackness and horror, to chart their endless sorrows and recursive gloom, and to take depth soundings in the darker recesses of the Chaucerian lakes in order to bring back palm- or bite-sized pieces (black jewels) of bitter Chaucer that could be shared with others . . . an “assortment,” if you will. Not that this collection finds only emptiness and non-meaning in these caves and lakes. You never know what you will discover in the dark. 2021-02-10T12:58:18Z 2019-03-26 23:55 2020-01-23 14:09:07 2020-04-01T10:44:21Z 2012 book 1004498 OCN: 945782696 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25597 9780615701073 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/38576 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25597/1/1004498.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25597/1/1004498.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25597/1/1004498.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25597/1/1004498.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25597/1/1004498.pdf punctum books 10.21983/P3.0018.1.00 10.21983/P3.0018.1.00 12970da4-0116-4486-b8be-fc9756703ab1 9780615701073 ScholarLed 224 Brooklyn, NY open access |
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| title | Dark Chaucer: An Assortment |
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| topic | Chaucer literary criticism sarkness poetry medieval thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBB Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval |
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