科图分类法:	I561.063/23 版次：
中图分类法:	I561.063 版次：
著者:	Meyer-Lee, Robert John.
题名:	Literary value and social identity in the Canterbury tales / / ,
出版发行:	出版地： Cambridge, United Kingdom ; 出版社： Cambridge University Press, 出版日期： 2019.
载体形态:	x, 282 p. ; 24 cm.
内容提要:	"Literary authors, especially those with other occupations, must come to grips with the question of why they should write at all, when the world urges them to devote their time and energy to other pursuits. They must reach, at the very least, a provisional conclusion regarding the relation between the uncertain value of their literary efforts and the more immediate values of their non-authorial social identities. Geoffrey Chaucer, with his several middle-strata identities, grappled with this question in a remarkably searching, complex manner. In this book, Robert J. Meyer-Lee examines the multiform, dynamic meditation on the relation between literary value and social identity that Chaucer stitched into the heart of The Canterbury Tales. He traces the unfolding of this meditation through what he shows to be the tightly linked performances of Clerk, Merchant, Franklin and Squire, offering the first full-scale reading of this sequence"--
主题词:	Literature and society History To 1500. Great Britain
主题词:	Social classes in literature
主题词:	Canon (Literature)
索书号:	I561.063/23