Boccaccio, Chaucer, and Stories for an Uncertain World (PDF)
Agency in the Decameron and the Canterbury Tales
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Boccaccio, Chaucer, and Stories for an Uncertain World understands the Decameron and the Canterbury Tales to communicate a radical uncertainty haunting most human endeavors, one that challenges effective knowledge of the future, the past, or the distant...
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Boccaccio, Chaucer, and Stories for an Uncertain World understands the Decameron and the Canterbury Tales to communicate a radical uncertainty haunting most human endeavors, one that challenges effective knowledge of the future, the past, or the distant present; accurate perception of both complex, equivocal signifying systems, including language, and the intentions hidden rather than revealed by the words and deeds of others; and
successful strategy in dealing with the chronic excesses and arbitrariness of power. This comparative study of Decameron novelle and Canterbury pilgrim tales yields the insight that the key to coping with these challenges is pragmatic prudence: rational calculation issuing in an opportunistic, often amoral choice of ingenious deeds
and/or eloquent words appropriate (though without guarantee) to mastering a specific crisis, and achieving the goal of agency in the here and now, not salvation in the Hereafter. An initial chapter explores the Aristotelian antecedents, contemporaneous cultural influences, and narrative techniques that intersect to shape the radically uncertain world of the Decameron and the Canterbury Tales, while succeeding chapters pair, and compare, stories from both collections that
illustrate the quest for agency-its successes and its failures-through plots often brilliantly adapted from simpler antecedents, as well as eloquence by turns satiric and insightful. This is storytelling that exposes a culture's fears, as well as its aspirations for mastery over the circumstances that challenge its
existence; reading these tales should be a labor of love and the goal of this study is to help assure that the reader's labor shall not be lost.
successful strategy in dealing with the chronic excesses and arbitrariness of power. This comparative study of Decameron novelle and Canterbury pilgrim tales yields the insight that the key to coping with these challenges is pragmatic prudence: rational calculation issuing in an opportunistic, often amoral choice of ingenious deeds
and/or eloquent words appropriate (though without guarantee) to mastering a specific crisis, and achieving the goal of agency in the here and now, not salvation in the Hereafter. An initial chapter explores the Aristotelian antecedents, contemporaneous cultural influences, and narrative techniques that intersect to shape the radically uncertain world of the Decameron and the Canterbury Tales, while succeeding chapters pair, and compare, stories from both collections that
illustrate the quest for agency-its successes and its failures-through plots often brilliantly adapted from simpler antecedents, as well as eloquence by turns satiric and insightful. This is storytelling that exposes a culture's fears, as well as its aspirations for mastery over the circumstances that challenge its
existence; reading these tales should be a labor of love and the goal of this study is to help assure that the reader's labor shall not be lost.
Autoren-Porträt von Robert W. Hanning
Robert W. Hanning is Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University. He taught as a Visiting Professor at Yale, Johns Hopkins, Princeton, and New York University. He was Kirk Professor of Medieval Literature at Bread Loaf School of English, Middlebury College and directed the Bread Loaf program at Lincoln College, Oxford on three occasions.
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- Autor: Robert W. Hanning
- 2021, 368 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 019264761X
- ISBN-13: 9780192647610
- Erscheinungsdatum: 14.10.2021
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