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Disseminal Chaucer
Rereading The Nun’s Priest’s Tale
Peter W. Travis
Chaucer’s The Nun’s Priest’s Tale is one of the most popular of The Canterbury Tales. It is only 646 lines long, yet it contains elements of a beast fable, an exemplum, a satire, and other genres. There have been countless attempts to articulate the “real” meaning of the tale, but it has confounded the critics. Peter Travis contends that part of the fun and part of the frustration of trying to interpret the tale has to do with Chaucer’s use of the tale to demonstrate the resistance of all literature to traditional critical practices. But the world of The Nun’s…
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Bitter Knowledge
Learning Socratic Lessons of Disillusion and Renewal
Thomas D. Eisele
Thomas Eisele explores the premise that the Socratic method of inquiry need not teach only negative lessons (showing us what we do not know, but not what we do know). Instead, Eisele contends, the Socratic method is cyclical: we start negatively by recognizing our illusions, but end positively through a process of recollection performed in response to our disillusionment, which ultimately leads to renewal. Thus, a positive lesson about our resources as philosophical investigators, as students and teachers, becomes available to participants in Socrates’ robust conversational inquiry.
Bitter Knowledge includes Eisele’s detailed readings of Socrates’ teaching techniques in three fundamental…
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Poetry and Fiction Brochure Online
The University of Notre Dame Press partners with the Creative Writing Program at the University of Notre Dame to publish the Richard Sullivan Prize in Short Fiction and the Ernest Sandeen Prize in Poetry winners. In addition, the Press collaborates with the Institute for Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame to support the work of emerging Latino/a poets with the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize.
We are pleased to offer the books in these series, as well as other fine poetry and fiction titles, in this brochure: Poetry & Fiction Brochure. Some of the books are offered…
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