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By Kathleen Forni

ISBN-10: 0786473444

ISBN-13: 9780786473441

This research explores Chaucer's present-day cultural recognition when it comes to pop culture. in precisely the previous twenty years his texts were tailored to a wide selection of renowned genres, together with tv, degree, comedian booklet, hip-hop, technological know-how fiction, horror, romance, and crime fiction. This cultural recycling includes various features yet Chaucer's basic organization is with the assumption of pilgrimage and the existing tenor is populist satire. the objective isn't just cultural elitism but additionally the dominant discourse Chaucerians. lecturers in flip can have doubts concerning the worth of renowned Chaucer; pop culture conception, despite the fact that, might hold that such skepticism has much less to do with severe discrimination than the statement of social contrast. still, the truth that Chaucer has a well-liked afterlife, and is still an ideological product over which competing teams lay declare, attests to his present cultural vitality.

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