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Ethics and Eventfulness in Middle English Literature
J. Mitchell
出版
Palgrave Macmillan US
, 2009-05-19
主題
Literary Criticism / Medieval
Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory
Literary Criticism / Ancient & Classical
Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative
ISBN
140397442X
9781403974426
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=5d_bwAEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
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.
