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Chaucer's Prayers: Writing Christian and Pagan Devotion

Chaucer's Prayers: Writing Christian and Pagan Devotion

Murton, Megan E.

Hardcover

Series: Chaucer Studies, Book 47

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 1843845598
ISBN13: 9781843845591
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Inc
Published: May 15 2020
Pages: 190
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.40
Language: English
A close examination of the prayers in Chaucer's poetry sheds significant new light on his poetic practice.

In a culture as steeped in communal, scripted acts of prayer as Chaucer's England, a written prayer asks not only to be read, but to be inhabited: its I marks a space that readers are invited to occupy. This book examines the implications of accepting that invitation when reading Chaucer's poetry. Both in his often-overlooked pious writings and in his ambitious, innovative pagan narratives, the I of prayer provides readers with a subject-position thatcan be at once devotional and literary - a stance before a deity and a stance in relation to a poem. Chaucer uses this uniquely open, participatory I to implicate readers in his poetry and to guide their work of reading.

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