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Chaucer, Gower, and the Affect of Invention Half Title Page Title Page CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION: THE EMERGENCE OF INVENTION SOM THYNG AND THE MIDDEL WEIE AFFECT, INVENTION, AND THE AFFECT OF INVENTION CHAUCER, GOWER, AND THE AFFECT OF INVENTION CHAPTER 1: “GOOTH YET ALWAY UNDER”: Invention as Movement in the House of Fame GYNNYNGES: MOVEMENT AS INVENTIONAL TOPIC AND CONCEPTUAL FRAME THOUGHT, ENGYN, AND IMAGINATION TYDYNGES FULLY SPRUNG: CAPTURING INVENTION AS MOVEMENT GOING ALWAYS UNDER: RIPPLES AND THE SENSATION OF DISPLACEMENT AT A TURNING: DIDO, GEFFREY, AND THE AFFECT OF INVENTION CHAPTER 2: “RYGHT SWICH AS YE FELTEN”: Aligning Affect and Invention in The Legend of Good Women AFFECTIVE AND INVENTIONAL EMERGENCE IN THE PROLOGUE ALLAS, ELISION, AND EMERGENCE IN THE LEGENDS “TH’EFFECT” OF THE AFFECT OF INVENTION CHAPTER 3: A THING SO STRANGE: Macrocosmic Emergence in the Confessio Amantis HANDS, WAYS, AND CHANGE: REINVENTING ARION’S “LUSTI MELODIE” “HERE TALE NEWE ENTAMED”: MEDEA AND JASON “AS WHO SEITH ABREIDE OUT OF HIS SLEP”: LIQUID, ENVY, AND CONSTANTINE “STRANGE INTERPRETACIOUNS”: CHRONICLE EMERGENCE AND THE “TALE OF THE THREE QUESTIONS” CHAPTER 4: “THE CRONIQUE OF THIS FABLE”: Transformative Poetry and the Chronicle Form in the Confessio Amantis “THE WORLDES CONSTITUCION”: GOWER THE CHRONICLER AND THE PROBLEM OF FORM THE “GRETE BESYNESSE OF ÞE WRITERS OF CRONICLES”: HISTORIOGRAPHIC INVENTION IN THE POLYCHRONICON AND CONFESSIO “HOU TO MAKE IT, NOU WOT NON”: FAILED EMERGENCE IN THE INVENTION OF ALCHEMY “OURE MARCHES HIERE”: CONGRUITE AND THE NEW CRONIQUE OF THE CONFESSIO “THE CRONIQUE OF THIS FABLE”: THE AFFECT OF INVENTION IN BOOK 5’S CHRONICLES CHAPTER 5: EMPTY SONGS, MIGHTY MEN, AND A STARTLED CHICKEN: Satirizing the Affect of Invention in Fragment VII of the Canterbury Tales “THER MAY NO TONGE EXPRESSE”: SATIRE AND STASIS IN THE PRIORESS’S TALE “HIR LITEL CHILD TO FYNDE”: INVENTION THROUGH THE PRIORESS, THE BOY, AND THE WIDOW “BUT A LITEL WHILE AGO”: THE EFFECTS OF EXAGGERATION THE MONK’S “CERTEYN STORIE” AND TRAGIC CHRONICLE “AT HYM WOL I BIGYNNE”: EVENT AND INVENTION IN THE MONK’S TRAGEDIES “MYGHTY” MEN AND THE MONSTER OF TIME THE “HEIGH YMAGINACIOUN” OF PRODUCTIVE FANTASY IN THE NUN’S PRIEST’S TALE CONCLUSION: FROM ASHES ANCIENT COME: Affective Intertextuality in Chaucer, Gower, and Shakespeare INTERTEXTUAL “PERTURBATIONS” IN “THE PHOENIX AND TURTLE” GOWER AND THE “UNBORN EVENT” IN PERICLES ENGAGING EMERGENCE BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX