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Author(s):	Nancy Mason Bradbury

Date:	2024	Format:	rar	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	0271096888
Pages:	220	OCR:		Quality:		ISBN13:
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In this elegantly written study, Nancy Mason Bradbury situates Chaucers last and most ambitious work in the context of a zeal for proverbs that was still rising in his day. Rival Wisdoms demonstrates that for Chaucers contemporaries, these tiny embedded microgenres could be potent, disruptive, and sometimes even incendiary.
In order to understand Chaucers use of proverbs and their reception by premodern readers, we must set aside post-Romantic prejudices against such sayings as prosaic and unoriginal. The premodern focus on proverbs conditioned the literary culture that produced the Canterbury Tales and helped shape its audiences reading practices. Aided by Thomas Speghts notations in his 1602 edition, Bradbury shows that Chaucer acknowledges the power of the proverb, reflecting on its capacity for harm as well as for good and on its potential to expand and deepenbut also to regulate and constrictthe meanings of stories. Far from banishing proverbs as incompatible with the highest reaches of poetry, Chaucer places them at the center of the liberating interpretive possibilities the
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