{"product_id":"neighboring-text-chaucer-boccaccio-henryson-paperback","title":"Neighboring Text: Chaucer, Boccaccio, Henryson - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGeorge Edmondson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMost medieval texts were not really texts in the modern sense of printed, bound, stand-alone volumes, but were instead scribal productions that circulated in manuscript form, often alongside unrelated writings, thereby producing what seem to be haphazard compilations. In \u003ci\u003eThe Neighboring Text: Chaucer, Boccaccio, Henryson\u003c\/i\u003e, George Edmondson argues that we have tended to apply a vertical, linear model of literary history to this late medieval manuscript culture. By contrast, he brings recent work in the fields of psychoanalysis and political philosophy to bear on the question of literary history in order to develop a countermodel informed by a horizontal ethos of \"neighborliness.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdmondson analyzes the different ways that three canonical texts--Chaucer's \u003ci\u003eTroilus and Criseyde\u003c\/i\u003e; its source, Boccaccio's \u003ci\u003eIl Filostrato\u003c\/i\u003e; and its fifteenth-century Scottish derivative, Robert Henryson's \u003ci\u003eTestament of Cresseid\u003c\/i\u003e--treat two figures, Troilus and Criseyde, and how those differences affect our understanding of literary history. He argues that what makes them neighboring texts is their shared concern with the subject of medieval Trojan historiography in general, and their very different treatments of Troilus in particular. At the same time, Edmondson supplements the medieval ideal of neighborliness with the psychoanalytic understanding of the neighbor as a figure both proximate and strange: at once the building block of community and its stumbling block. The result is a repositioning of the three works as a textual neighborhood--one in which the legendary history of Troy is transformed from the basis of imaginary national genealogies to a figure for the aggression and enjoyment, the conflicting gestures of identification and estrangement, that shape the neighbor relation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeorge Edmondson is associate professor of English at Dartmouth College.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 292\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 9 x 6.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 15, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42724469801023,"sku":"9780268027759","price":86.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/594a5c5bfb87847b91fd9e1e676deda2.webp?v=1765102772","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/neighboring-text-chaucer-boccaccio-henryson-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}