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The Before of Order and the Cutting Edge of Literature
The Before of Order and the Cutting Edge of Literature

Author(s): György Kalmár
Subject(s): Gender Studies
Published by: Universitatea de Vest din Timişoara

Summary/Abstract: "If one is to believe criticism, texts like Chaucer`s “The Knight`s Tale” in The Canterbury Tales possess a most peculiar space: on one hand they belong to a specific time and place and cultural context (which we all explain to our students at the beginning of classes), but on the other hand they inhabit a kind of mythical space outside the history of literature, a space similar to the heavens where Greek heroes went after death (if they were heroic enough), a space of immortality. ..."

  • Issue Year: 2005
  • Issue No: 04
  • Page Range: 95-103
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: English