Reading Chaucer in Precarious Times
Project Multimedia
presentation - transcripts
presentation - transcripts
Output
Output - Other
Book.
Project Scope
Project Description
Ingham's work is an account of and response to the traumatic nature of loss. It also reacts to the inexpressible aspects of catastrophe and offers a set of readings of medieval poetry that poignantly mobilize such feelings. It is simultaneously a memoir of Ingham's own unlikely affection for Geoffrey Chaucer’s poetry as it pertains to loss and recovery.
Translational Perspective
The project is translational both historically (reflecting on the long history of pandemics, and war) and in terms of narratives of illness. Ingham's work translates scholarship on the effects of catastrophic loss and illness on victims and the role of literature or poetry in compensating for what cannot be rendered straightforwardly.
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Contact Infomation: First name
Patricia
Contact Information: Last name
Ingham
Contact Information: Position title
Martha Biggerstaff Jones Professor of British Literature
Contact Information: Institutional affiliation
Indiana University, Bloomington
Contact Information: Email address
pingham [at] indiana.edu
Project Website - Formatted
City/State/Country
Bloomington, Indiana, USA