About the Book: Chaucer to Shakespeare, 1337 1580
In the 250 years introduced here, literature reflects key transitions, embedded
as it is in far reaching political, religious and socio economic
transformations. This volume tracks some of the resulting tensions in various
genres, especially those that re integrate or respond to the traditional. Such
literature is examined by using the tools of rhetoric and semiotics,
interpreting from the author audience axis and focusing on dissonant markers in
canonical as well as in less well known narratives. SunHee Kim Gertz looks at
the history and culture of the era in order to contextualise the work she
examines, including