<b>A wide-ranging exploration of the creative power of literary tradition, from Chaucer to the present</b><br /><br /><br /><br />In literary and cultural studies, tradition is a word everyone uses but few address critically. In <i>Reading Old Books</i>, Peter Mack offers a wide-ranging exploration of the creative power of literary tradition, from the middle ages to the twenty-first century, revealing in new ways how it helps writers and readers make new works and meanings.<br /><br /><i>Reading Old Books </i>argues that the best way to understand tradition is by examining the moments when a writer takes up an old text and writes something new out of a dialogue with that text and the promptings of the present situation. The book examines Petrarch as a user, instigator, and victim of tradition. It shows how Chaucer became the first great English writer by translating and adapting a minor poem by Boccaccio. It investigates how Ariosto, Tasso, and Spenser made new epic meanings by playing
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