Chaucer's agents : cause and representation in Chaucerian narrative /
Van Dyke, Carolynn,1947-
Madison, N.J. : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,
c2005.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-352) and indexes.
Introduction : Chaucer and the subject of agency -- Dreaming the real : Chaucer does allegory -- Beyond Canacee's ring : animal agency in three Canterbury tales -- "He that alle thing may bynde" : the agency of Chaucer's pagan gods -- Goode women, maydenes and wyves : exemplary agency and its discontents -- "That am nat I" : the wife of Bath, Criseyde, and the possibility of subjective agency -- Seeing through Chaucer : authorial agency and the representation of truth -- Fre agency.
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400
Narration (Rhetoric)
Philosophy, Medieval, in literature.
Agent (Philosophy) in literature.
Causation in literature.
Mimesis in literature.
Rhetoric, Medieval.