Medieval writers were fascinated by fortune and misfortune, yet the critical problems raised by such explorations have not been adequately theorized. Allan Mitchell invites us to consider these contingencies in relation to an ‘ethics of the event.’ His book examines how Middle English writers including Chaucer, Gower, Lydgate, and Malory treat unpredictable events such as sexual attraction, political disaster, social competition, traumatic accidents, and the textual condition itself – locating in fortune the very potentiality of ethical life. While earlier scholarship has detailed the iconography of Lady Fortune, this book alters and advances the conversation so that we see fortune less as a negative exemplum than as a positive sign of radical phenomena.
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Introduction: Conceptial Personae On Fortune, Philosophy and Fidelity to the Event Love and Ethics to come in Troilus and Criseyde Consolations of Pandarus: The Testament of Love and The Chaunce of the Dyse Gower’s Confessio Amantis and the Nature of Vernacular Ethics Telling Fortunes in Lydgate’s Fall of Princes Moral Luck and Malory’s Morte d’arthurOver de auteur
J. ALLAN MITCHELL is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Victoria, Canada.
Taal Engels ● Formaat PDF ● Pagina’s 187 ● ISBN 9780230620728 ● Bestandsgrootte 3.8 MB ● Uitgeverij Palgrave Macmillan US ● Stad New York ● Land US ● Gepubliceerd 2009 ● Downloadbare 24 maanden ● Valuta EUR ● ID 4991683 ● Kopieerbeveiliging Sociale DRM
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