Chaucer and the Ethics of Time

Gillian Adler

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University of Wales Press
22 June 2022

Literary studies: poetry & poets; Ethics & moral philosophy

Series: New Century Chaucer

A study of time in Chaucer's major works.

Geoffrey Chaucer wrote at a turning point in the history of timekeeping, but many of his poems demonstrate a greater interest in the moral dimension of time than in the mechanics of the medieval clock. Chaucer and the Ethics of Time examines Chaucer's sensitivity to the insecurity of human experience amid the temporal circumstances of change and time-passage, as well as strategies for ethicising historical vision in several of his major works. While wasting time was occasionally viewed as a sin in the late Middle Ages, Chaucer resists conventional moral dichotomies and explores a complex and challenging relationship between the interior sense of time and the external pressures of linearism and cyclicality. Chaucer's diverse philosophical ideas about time unfold through the reciprocity between form and discourse, thus encouraging a new look at not only the characters' ruminations on time in the tradition of St Augustine and Boethius, but also manifold narrative sequences and structures, including anachronism.

By: Gillian Adler
Imprint: University of Wales Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm,
ISBN: 9781786838360
ISBN 10: 1786838362
Series: New Century Chaucer
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 22 June 2022
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: No Longer Our Product

List of Abbreviations Introduction 1 Elegiac Time and the Pleasure of Forgetting in the Book of the Duchess 2 Seeing Time and the Illusion of Control in Troilus and Criseyde 3 'What may ever laste?': Narrativising Transience in the House of Fame 4 The Process of Time in the Parliament of Fowls 5 Nonlinear Time in Chaucer's Frame-Narrative and the Wife of Bath's Prologue Conclusion Notes Bibliography

Gillian Adler is assistant professor of literature at Sarah Lawrence College in New York.