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Chaucer and the shape of creation; the aesthetic possibilities of inorganic structure
- Title
- Chaucer and the shape of creation; the aesthetic possibilities of inorganic structure [by] Robert M. Jordan.
- Author
- Jordan, Robert M., Dr.
- Publication
- Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1967.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | PR1924 .J6 1967 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xviii, 257 pages illustrations; 24 cm
- Subject
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 > Aesthetics
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
- Chaucer, Geoffrey 1343-1400
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 > Criticism and interpretation
- Chaucer, Geoffrey
- To 1500
- Aesthetics, Medieval, in literature
- Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) > History > To 1500
- Aesthetics
- Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
- Ästhetik
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. 243-251.
- Contents
- Concepts of structure -- Elements of medieval aesthetic theory -- Gothic cathedral: salvation through structure -- Troilus and Criseyde: Chaucerian gothic -- The Canterbury tales: concepts of unity -- The merchant's tale: dramatic disunity and inorganic unity -- The knight's tale: nobility in Theseus' world and Chaucer's art -- The miller's tale: low theme and high art -- The clerk's tale: the limits of discontinuity -- The wife of Bath's prologue: the structure of autobiography -- The parson's tale: paradigm and apotheosis.
- LCCN
- 67029628
- OCLC
- ocm00351187
- 351187
- SCSB-14580272
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library