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Chaucerian Spaces: Spatial Poetics in Chaucer's Opening Tales(SUNY series in Medieval Studies)

Chaucerian Spaces: Spatial Poetics in Chaucer's Opening Tales(SUNY series in Medieval Studies)


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Examines affect and the significance of space and place in the first six Canterbury Tales. Chaucerian Spaces explores the affect and the significance of space and place in the first six tales in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Relatively little has been written about space in the Canterbury Tales, yet the rewards for attending to this aspect of Chaucer's aesthetic are considerable. Space indicates the potential for characteristic action, development, and a more profound expression of being. In these tales, characters inhabit a landscape and places within it that express their inner life. Emelye in her garden, Palamon and Arcite in the grove-all occupy spaces or places that manifest social destiny and individual intention. Space and subjectivity change as territories give way to households, and the horizons of consciousness shrink to the core of human intent. Most striking is the transformation of women in place. Emelye, Alysoun, even Custance and the Wife of Bath, dwell in places that express their social and economic potential. They are in place, but place is also in them: they merge in metaphor with the places that express them, bringing the reader closer to the sensible, reflective experience of the medieval subject.

Table of Contents:
Preface Introduction 1. Dwelling Places of Chivalry and Nature 2. Alysoun the Housewife 3. The Solace of Open Spaces 4. Symkyn's Place 5. Changing Places 6. The Riches of Exilic Space 7. The Domestic Market 8. The Exile and Her Kingdom 9. Chaucer's Spatial Poetics Notes Bibliography Index

About the Author :
William F. Woods is Professor of English at Wichita State University.

Review :
"...Woods's monograph on Chaucerian spaces is a welcome addition to current scholarly interest in space and place ... [it] is a well-written and thought-provoking book which combines close attention to language and narrative with the new perspective which space offers as a method of enquiry. This book will appeal to both students and academics and will no doubt stimulate further research into Chaucer's spatial poetics." - Medium Aevum "Woods's human ethos, engaging manner, and deep experience with Chaucer's texts, as well as his intimate familiarity with critical conversations of the 1980s and 1990s, animate his first book ... Woods provides beautifully crafted and balanced readings for the tales he treats." - Speculum - A Journal of Medieval Studies "Chaucerian Spaces is usually thought-provoking, often entertaining ... those interested in arguments about space and placement in Chaucer will find it well worth examining." - Journal of English and Germanic Philology "This is a thoughtful, well-written study that can be recommended to students encountering Chaucer for the first time as well as to specialists." - Review of English Studies


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780791474877
  • Publisher: State University of New York Press
  • Publisher Imprint: State University of New York Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 215
  • Series Title: SUNY series in Medieval Studies
  • Sub Title: Spatial Poetics in Chaucer's Opening Tales
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0791474879
  • Publisher Date: 12 Jun 2008
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 25 mm
  • Weight: 408 gr


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