Böcker av Michael St John

This collection of 15 essays looks at the theme of decadence and its recurring manifestations in European literature and literary criticism from medieval times to the present day. Various definitions of the term are explored, including the notion of decadence as physical decay.

A study of the dream vision in the work of Chaucer. It demonstrates how, by drawing upon Aristotelian psychology, Chaucer articulated precisely those aspects of the courtly identity that are determined by language and empirical experience, and those which are transcendent of this determinism.