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Elizabeth
Allen.
False
Fables and Exemplary Truth: Poetics and Reception of Medieval Mode.
Palgrave,
2005.
The
New Middle Ages series.
ISBN
1403967970.
Hardback.
138mm x
216mm.
240pp.
Publisher's
recommended price £37.99
This study charts
relationships between moral claims and audience response in medieval
exemplary works by such poets as Chaucer, Gower, Robert Henryson, and
several anonymous scribes. In late medieval England, exemplary works
make one of the strongest possible claims for the social value of
poetic fiction. Studying this debate reveals a set of local literary
histories, based on both canonical and non-canonical texts, that
complicate received notions of the didactic Middle Ages, the
sophisticated Renaissance, and the fallow fifteenth century in between.
Contents
Introduction: Questions From a Gestalt Moment
PART I: PROMISE OF TRANSFORMATION
Theory and Context
Violence, Capital Flows and Bargaining Power
Financial Globalisation, Debt Negotiations and Reform
Negotiating Economic Justice: Globalisation or Socialism?
Revolution at a Bargain?
PART II: FRUSTRATIONS OF MARKET RULE
Globalist and Non-Sexist?
Negotiating Democracy
Conclusion: The Failure of Transformation
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