Chaucer's Chain of LoveThis book traces the thematic and structural implication for Chaucer's poetry of the chain of love between God and his creation, an image used by the Platonist philosophers of Chaucer's day, as well as by the church as a metaphor for God's providential love. As a structural principle, the chain of love is the intermediary between constituents of time, space, and words. |
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... meaning in word , narrative , and structure . One is made aware by Chaucer's style of the insufficiency of linguistic and intellectual references to limit meaning , for Chaucer's poetry is ideologically open - ended . Its implicit ...
... meaning in word , narrative , and structure . One is made aware by Chaucer's style of the insufficiency of linguistic and intellectual references to limit meaning , for Chaucer's poetry is ideologically open - ended . Its implicit ...
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... meaning , fails to complete its course.45 46 Philomene's woven text proves more beneficial than the poet's spoken or written words . Its design both tells a story and incites an act of love . The web is a strategem of escape and ...
... meaning , fails to complete its course.45 46 Philomene's woven text proves more beneficial than the poet's spoken or written words . Its design both tells a story and incites an act of love . The web is a strategem of escape and ...
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... Meaning of Chaucer's Knight's Tale , " MAE 39 ( 1970 ) : 141 , say that Theseus does not understand mutability and fails to comprehend his father's advice . A. J. Minnis , Chaucer and Pagan Antiquity ( Cambridge : D. S. Brewer , 1982 ) ...
... Meaning of Chaucer's Knight's Tale , " MAE 39 ( 1970 ) : 141 , say that Theseus does not understand mutability and fails to comprehend his father's advice . A. J. Minnis , Chaucer and Pagan Antiquity ( Cambridge : D. S. Brewer , 1982 ) ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 9 |
Loves Progressions and Successions | 40 |
The Legend of Good | 57 |
Copyright | |
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