The Politics of Lists.
- Author / Editor
- Little, Katherine C.
The Politics of Lists.
- Published
- Exemplaria 31 (2019): 117–28.
- Description
- Disagrees with "theorists of materiality" who regard lists as "transparent," or "utopian, or egalitarian, or decentering." Examines how the list of "thynges" in KnT (3017ff.), though different from the analogous list in Boccaccio’s "Teseida," "makes an implicit political claim about the naturalness of human social and political activity." Argues that such implicit claims are unavoidable..
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