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" Elizabeth Allen makes a compelling case for medieval reading as a dynamic, ethical activity. Arguing that exemplary stories elicited responses that required "ongoing adjustments to the contingencies of political (as well as social and literary) occasion," she deftly analyzes the cultural function of medieval narrative. False Fables and Exemplary Truth is a sophisticated and thoughtful book that refines the subject of late medieval exemplarity in important and insightful ways. It will become required reading for every scholar interested in this crucial subject." - Rebecca Krug, University of Minnesota
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Book Title: False Fables and Exemplary Truth
Book Subtitle: Poetics and Reception of Medieval Mode
Authors: Elizabeth Allen
Series Title: The New Middle Ages
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-04479-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-6797-8Published: 06 September 2005
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-04479-2Published: 30 April 2016
Series ISSN: 2945-5936
Series E-ISSN: 2945-5944
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 225
Topics: Medieval Literature, Philosophy, general, Fiction, Ethics, Classical and Antique Literature, Poetry and Poetics