Ethics and exemplary narrative in Chaucer and Gower /
[Book]
J. Allan Mitchell.
Rochester, NY :
D.S. Brewer,
2004.
1 online resource (157 pages).
Chaucer studies,
33
0261-9822 ;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-153) and index.
Reading for the moral : controversies and trajectories -- Rhetorical reason : cases, conscience, and circumstances -- Gower for example : Confessio Amantis and The measure of the case -- All that is written for our doctrine : proof, remembrance, conscience -- Moral chaucer : ethics of exemplarity in the Canterbury tales -- Pointing the moral : the friar, summoner, and pardoner's satire -- Griselda and the question of ethical monstrosity.
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A lively defence of the ethics of exemplary narrative, and a detailed account of its forms and functioning in the works of Geoffrey Chaucer and John Gower.
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Ethics and exemplary narrative in Chaucer and Gower.