{"product_id":"chaucer-and-the-invention-of-biblical-narrative-1","title":"Chaucer and the Invention of Biblical Narrative","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDemonstrating how Chaucer uses the Bible in \u003ci\u003eThe Canterbury Tales\u003c\/i\u003e as an authoritative literary source and model for his own literary production, this book explores the ways in which the Bible was a key tool for Chaucer's self-definition and innovation as an author.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChad Schrock unravels Chaucer’s \u003ci\u003eTales\u003c\/i\u003e in the light of topics important to biblical reception in 14th-century England: authority, textuality, interpretation, translation, rephrasing and marginalia. When the \u003ci\u003eCanterbury Tales\u003c\/i\u003e are summed up in this way, they show the great extent to which Chaucer was drawing upon the Bible as a meta-poetical resource for his own poetry – its fictional tale-tellers and characters, its quotations, allusions and images, its plots, its imaginative engagement with an audience of listeners and readers, and its hidden intentions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSchrock demonstrates that the Bible is a uniquely potent literary source for Chaucer because it combines infinite authority and plenitude with unprecedented freedom of interpretive invention. As a world-making text, the Bible’s authority includes the literary as subcategory but surpasses and contextualizes it, which gives Chaucer’s deferential biblical invention a different kind of freedom and safety.  Within Chaucer’s tales, a biblical image is often where a given narrative peaks and its plot comes clear, but a biblical world also and without strain contains his biblical fictioneers and whatever they make from the Bible, whether orthodoxy or heresy, whether sin or worship.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56408746000728,"sku":"9781350417458","price":36.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781350417458_a3140a3d-fea4-4bcd-bd92-b83e260c59a3.jpg?v=1780428623","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/chaucer-and-the-invention-of-biblical-narrative-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}