Chaucer's Open Books Resistance to Closure in Medieval Discourse
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Lightning Source Inc
- Publish date: 12/01/1998
Description:
McGerr examines the open-endedness of Chaucer's narrative poems in relation to modern and postmodern theory and to medieval traditions. She discusses the links between Chaucer's poems and modern definitions of "open form" and then addresses medieval conventions of closure and pre-Chaucerian poems that subverted those conventions. (Poetry)
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