{"title":"Chad Schrock","description":"\u003cp\u003eChad Schrock's works explore the rich intersections of literature and theological narrative, offering insightful perspectives on how biblical themes shape classic texts. His writing delves deep into the ways medieval literature, such as Chaucer's, reinterprets and reinvents sacred stories within a cultural and historical context.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders of Schrock will find thoughtful analysis that bridges \u003cem\u003eArts \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/em\u003e with literary studies, illuminating the enduring influence of religious narratives on artistic expression. His books invite contemplation of the profound connections between faith, storytelling, and cultural identity.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"chaucer-and-the-invention-of-biblical-narrative-by-chad-schrock-9781350417458","title":"Chaucer and the Invention of Biblical Narrative","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDemonstrating how Chaucer uses the Bible in \u003cem\u003eThe Canterbury Tales\u003c\/em\u003e as an authoritative literary source and model for his own literary production, this book explores the ways in which the Bible was a key tool for Chaucer's self-definition and innovation as an author.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eChad Schrock unravels Chaucer’s \u003cem\u003eTales\u003c\/em\u003e in the light of topics important to biblical reception in 14th-century England: authority, textuality, interpretation, translation, rephrasing and marginalia. When \u003cem\u003eThe Canterbury Tales\u003c\/em\u003e are summed up in this way, they show the great extent to which Chaucer was drawing upon the Bible as a meta-poetical resource for his own poetry – its fictional tale-tellers and characters, its quotations, allusions and images, its plots, its imaginative engagement with an audience of listeners and readers, and its hidden intentions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSchrock demonstrates that the Bible is a uniquely potent literary source for Chaucer because it combines infinite authority and plenitude with unprecedented freedom of interpretive invention. As a world-making text, the Bible’s authority includes the literary as a subcategory but surpasses and contextualizes it, which gives Chaucer’s deferential biblical invention a different kind of freedom and safety.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWithin Chaucer’s tales, a biblical image is often where a given narrative peaks and its plot comes clear, but a biblical world also and without strain contains his biblical fictioneers and whatever they make from the Bible, whether orthodoxy or heresy, whether sin or worship.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47933923164396,"sku":"9781350417458","price":133.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781350417458-chaucer-and-the-invention-of-biblical-narrative.jpg?v=1783883947"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/collections\/chad-schrock.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}