1st Edition
Routledge Revivals: Chaucer, Langland, and the Creative Imagination (1980)
By David Aers
Copyright 1980
250 Pages
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Routledge
250 Pages
by
Routledge
250 Pages
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Routledge
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First published in 1980, this study of two renowned later fourteenth century English poets, Chaucer and Langland, concentrates on some major and representative aspects of their work. Aers shows that, in contrast to the mass conventional writing of the period, which was happy to accept and propagate traditional ideologies, Chaucer and Langland were preoccupied with actual conflicts, strains, and... Read more
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Imagination and Traditional Ideologies in Piers Plowman
2. Langland and the Church: Affirmation and Negation
3. Langland, Apocalypse, and the Saeculum
4. Chaucer: Reflexive Imagination, Knowledge, and Authority
5. Chaucer’s Criseyde: Woman in Society, Woman in Love
6. Chaucer: Love, Sex, and Marriage
7. Imagination, Order, and Ideology: The Knight’s Tale
Notes
Index
Biography
David Aers
