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Title: ETHICS AND EVENTFULNESS IN MIDDLE ENGLISH LITERATURE
By: J. Mitchell
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 1349535044
ISBN 13: 9781349535040
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Publisher: PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
Pub. date: 19 May, 2009
Edition: 1st ed. 2009
Series: The New Middle Ages
Pages: 187
Synopsis: Medieval writers were fascinated by fortune and misfortune, yet the critical problems raised by such explorations have not been adequately theorized. Allan Mitchell invites us to consider these contingencies in relation to an "ethics of the event." His book examines how Middle English writers including Chaucer, Gower, Lydgate, and Malory treat unpredictable events such as sexual attraction, political disaster, social competition, traumatic accidents, and the textual condition itself - locating in fortune the very potentiality of ethical life. While earlier scholarship has detailed the iconography of Lady Fortune, this book alters and advances the conversation so that we see fortune less as a negative exemplum than as a positive sign of radical phenomena.
Illustrations: biography
Publication: UK
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
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