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Salvation and Sin: Augustine, Langland, and Fourteenth-Century Theology (review)

Salvation and Sin: Augustine, Langland, and Fourteenth-Century Theology (review) Book Reviews ics, for while respecting a historicist angle, she also suggests that the danger of anachronism has its overly alienating historicist counterpart, an (over)emphasis on difference at the cost of arguable accessibility. Knapp's analyses of individual texts or passages cast light upon numerous critical questions that have haunted Chaucer scholars (the implications of a gesture, the "shock of the possible," the role and nature of laughter), and lovers of Chaucer will encounter multiple pleasures and beauties [!] on the way. Moreover, readers are firmly guided through the richness of local details as these are always chosen for their contribution to Knapp's overall project, which is to claim the relevance of the word "aesthetics" in approaching Chaucer's texts. A minor objection might be raised to the lengths to which Knapp goes in squeezing tales for their psychological implications for the tellers. The present reader would have liked Knapp to consider some of the problems involved in such readings, as well as some possible alternative means of bringing about the textual mix that is Chaucer's oeuvre. (The Chaucerian "mix" may result from combinations of features that problematize readings determined by systematic or organic expectation, and here it would be http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png JEGP, Journal of English and Germanic Philology University of Illinois Press

Salvation and Sin: Augustine, Langland, and Fourteenth-Century Theology (review)

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Book Reviews ics, for while respecting a historicist angle, she also suggests that the danger of anachronism has its overly alienating historicist counterpart, an (over)emphasis on difference at the cost of arguable accessibility. Knapp's analyses of individual texts or passages cast light upon numerous critical questions that have haunted Chaucer scholars (the implications of a gesture, the "shock of the possible," the role and nature of laughter), and lovers of Chaucer will encounter multiple pleasures and beauties [!] on the way. Moreover, readers are firmly guided through the richness of local details as these are always chosen for their contribution to Knapp's overall project, which is to claim the relevance of the word "aesthetics" in approaching Chaucer's texts. A minor objection might be raised to the lengths to which Knapp goes in squeezing tales for their psychological implications for the tellers. The present reader would have liked Knapp to consider some of the problems involved in such readings, as well as some possible alternative means of bringing about the textual mix that is Chaucer's oeuvre. (The Chaucerian "mix" may result from combinations of features that problematize readings determined by systematic or organic expectation, and here it would be

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JEGP, Journal of English and Germanic PhilologyUniversity of Illinois Press

Published: Mar 30, 2011

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