| Ethics and Eventfulness in Middle English Literature 2009 Edition Contributor(s): Mitchell, J. (Author) |
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ISBN: 140397442X ISBN-13: 9781403974426 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2009 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Medieval - Language Arts & Disciplines - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory |
| Dewey: 420.938 |
| LCCN: 2008042106 |
| Series: New Middle Ages |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.6" W x 8.3" (0.75 lbs) 187 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) |
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| Publisher Description: 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. |