The Cambridge Introduction to Chaucer / Alastair Minnis.
2014
PR1924 .M466 2014 (Mapit)
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Title
The Cambridge Introduction to Chaucer / Alastair Minnis.
Author
Minnis, A. J. (Alastair J.)
ISBN
9781107064867 hardcover
1107064864 hardcover
9781107699908 paperback
1107699908 paperback
9781316121542
1107064864 hardcover
9781107699908 paperback
1107699908 paperback
9781316121542
Published
New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Language
English
Description
ix, 167 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Call Number
PR1924 .M466 2014
Dewey Decimal Classification
821/.1
Summary
"Geoffrey Chaucer is the best-known and most widely read of all medieval British writers, famous for his scurrilous humour and biting satire against the vices and absurdities of his age. Yet he was also a poet of passionate love, sensitive to issues of gender and sexual difference, fascinated by the ideological differences between the pagan past and the Christian present, and a man of science, knowledgeable in astronomy, astrology and alchemy. This concise book is an ideal starting point for study of all his major poems, particularly The Canterbury Tales, to which two chapters are devoted. It offers close readings of individual texts, presenting various possibilities for interpretation, and includes discussion of Chaucer's life, career, historical context and literary influences. An account of the various ways in which he has been understood over the centuries leads into an up-to-date, annotated guide to further reading"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series
Cambridge introductions to literature.
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Table of Contents
Introduction: life and historical contexts
1. Love and lore: the shorter poems
2. Fictions of antiquity: Troilus and Criseyde and The Legend of Good Women
3. The Canterbury Tales, I: war, love, laughter
4. The Canterbury Tales, II: experience and authority
Afterword
Guide to further reading
Index.
1. Love and lore: the shorter poems
2. Fictions of antiquity: Troilus and Criseyde and The Legend of Good Women
3. The Canterbury Tales, I: war, love, laughter
4. The Canterbury Tales, II: experience and authority
Afterword
Guide to further reading
Index.