Stories of Chaos: Reason and Its Displacement in Early Modern English Narrative

by Nick Davis

First published in 1999, this volume re-examines narrative design in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The Faerie Queene, King Lear and Paradise Lost. Written in a period newly set on finding practical application for available systems of reasoning, these texts confront in their different ways reason's absolute limitation in the face of a Real which it cannot adequately represent to itself or recruit to its own purposes. An influential...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138348716
• ISBN13: 9781138348714
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 195 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"