{"product_id":"chaucerian-fiction-9780691606729","title":"Chaucerian Fiction","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Robert B. Burlin\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Princeton University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy analyzing Chaucer's major poetic works, Robert Burlin succeeds in isolating thematic undercurrents with a bearing on the poet's process of composition. He is thus able to relate individual poems to Chaucer's view of himself as a writer, and to assess the internal evidence for a Chaucerian theory of fiction. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Professor Burlin contends that a logic underlies Chaucer's aesthetic assumptions whose imaginative configuration appears both simple and inevitable in the context of his poetic development. The author first explores possible antecedents for the terms \"experience\" and \u003ci\u003eauctoritee\u003c\/i\u003e, and shows that this common antinomy provides the basis for dividing the poems into three groups. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the \"poetic fictions,\" Chaucer speculates on the value of poetic activity, on the sources of its \u003ci\u003eaffect\u003c\/i\u003e, and on its validity as a means of apprehension. The \"philosophic fictions\" concentrate on the epistemological aspect of literary activity. In a final group of poems, termed \"psychological fictions,\" the poet explores the speaker's unspoken motives, as well as his pronounced intentions, in telling a tale. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOriginally published in 1977. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe \u003cb\u003ePrinceton Legacy Library\u003c\/b\u003e uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46486614638743,"sku":"9780691606729","price":5924.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780691606729.jpg?v=1766331232","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/chaucerian-fiction-9780691606729","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}