Chaucer, Langland and the Creative Imagination by David Aers

Chaucer, Langland and the Creative Imagination by David Aers

First published in 1980, this study of two renowned later fourteenth century English poets, Chaucer and Langland, concentrates on some major and representative aspects of their work. Aers shows that, in contrast to the mass conventional writing of the period, which was happy to accept and propagate traditional ideologies, Chaucer and Langland were preoccupied with actual conflicts, strains, and developments in received ideologies and social practices. He demonstrates that they were genuinely exploratory, and created work which actively questioned dominant ideologies, even those which they themselves revered and hoped to affirm. For Chaucer and Langland the imagination was indeed creative, involved in the active construction of meanings, and in their poetry they grasped and explored social commitments, religious developments and many perplexing contradictions which were subverting inherited paradigms.

Aers, David: - David Aers is James B. Duke Professor of English and Historical Theology with appointments in both the English Department and in the Divinity School at Duke University.

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ISBN 13	9780710003515
ISBN 10	071000351X
Title	Chaucer, Langland and the Creative Imagination
Author	David Aers
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Taylor & Francis Ltd
Year published	1980-01-01
Number of pages	248
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