False Fables and Exemplary Truth: Poetics and Reception of Medieval Mode (The New Middle Ages)

by ElizabethAllen (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2005

  $59.45

  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.