Chaucer's Agents: Cause and Representation in Chaucerian Narrative

by Carolynn Van Dyke

The ever-proliferating views of Chaucer's texts amount in part to disagreements about who or what determines his narratives: lifelike characters, doctrinal principles, the cycles of history, material conditions, the prototypical subject, the reader, even the text itself. In Chaucer's Agents, Carolynn Van Dyke shifts our focus from any particular kind of cause to the representation of cause itself that is, to agency.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611473195
• ISBN13: 9781611473193
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
• Length: 371 Pages