Oxford Guides to Chaucer
Author : Helen Cooper
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,56 MB
Release : 1996
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Author : Helen Cooper
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,56 MB
Release : 1996
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Author : Helen Cooper
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 11,55 MB
Release : 1991
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ISBN : 9780198111900
Since its first publication in 1989, Helen Cooper's guide to The Canterbury Tales has established itself as the standard work on the poem. This second edition continues to offer the most comprehensive scrutiny of the Tales both as a whole and individually. In addition, Cooper incorporates themost significant recent scholarship and criticism, reflecting current research in the areas of Chaucer's historical and social context and developments in the interpretation of Chaucer's presentation of women.
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 35,43 MB
Release : 2023-08-31
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ISBN : 0198821425
Recognised on its first appearance as the most comprehensive single-volume guide to The Canterbury Tales yet produced, this third edition brings the Tales up to date in relation both to recent criticism and to the changing expectations of modern readers. The Guide provide tale-by-tale information on textual variations and sources, together with a readable commentary on thematic issues, structure, style, generic affiliations, and the contribution of each tale to the work as a whole. It concludes with a survey of the many imitations of the tales down to the early seventeenth century. This new edition also takes account of the latest scholarship, theory, and criticism and new interpretations of the tales, including such matters as gender identity, consent, and racial and religious difference. The book is the most comprehensive single-volume guide to the Tales yet produced, bringing together a wide range of disparate material and providing a readable commentary on all aspects of the work. It combines the comprehensive coverage of a reference book with the clarity and coherence of a critical account. Since its first publication in 1989, the Guide has established itself as an indispensable aid for any reader looking to develop their understanding of The Canterbury Tales.
Author : Helen Cooper
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 691 pages
File Size : 19,1 MB
Release : 2023-07-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0198878796
Recognised on its first appearance as the most comprehensive single-volume guide to The Canterbury Tales yet produced, this third edition brings the Tales up to date in relation both to recent criticism and to the changing expectations of modern readers. The Guide provide tale-by-tale information on textual variations and sources, together with a readable commentary on thematic issues, structure, style, generic affiliations, and the contribution of each tale to the work as a whole. It concludes with a survey of the many imitations of the tales down to the early seventeenth century. This new edition also takes account of the latest scholarship, theory, and criticism and new interpretations of the tales, including such matters as gender identity, consent, and racial and religious difference. The book is the most comprehensive single-volume guide to the Tales yet produced, bringing together a wide range of disparate material and providing a readable commentary on all aspects of the work. It combines the comprehensive coverage of a reference book with the clarity and coherence of a critical account. Since its first publication in 1989, the Guide has established itself as an indispensable aid for any reader looking to develop their understanding of The Canterbury Tales.
Author : Alastair J. Minnis
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Page : 600 pages
File Size : 28,89 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
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A general chapter on the social and cultural contexts of the Shorter Poems is followed by a guide to the main genre which they exemplify - the love-vision form. The volume then provides individual chapters on the Book of the Duchess, the House of Fame, the Parliament of Fowls, the Legend of Good Women, and the short poems; there is also an extensive appendix on Chaucer's language.
Author : Barry Windeatt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 47,63 MB
Release : 2023-10-31
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ISBN : 0198878818
This is a comprehensive critical guide to Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde. This new edition has been comprehensively revised in light of the latest scholarly and critical research and with a fully updated bibliography. It includes a full account of Chaucer's imaginative deployment of his sources, and an extended survey of this narrative poem's innovative combination of a range of generic identities. The chapters explain how Chaucer builds thematic significance into his poem's symmetrical structure, and the poem's distinctive variety in style and language, as well as a full commentary on the poem's concerns with love in the contexts of time and mutability and human free will. The Guide explores the poem as an extended debate about the nature and value of love, and how love was conceptualized and experienced as a form of service in quest of compassionate reward, a quasi-religious devotion, and a potentially fatal illness always in hope of cure. The subjectivities of the chief protagonists are fully analysed, as is the poem's problematic ending. Alongside discussions of theme and structure, there is also an account of what the extant manuscripts of Troilus and Criseyde may reveal about the poem's early genesis, and a unique survey of responses to Troilus from its own times to the present day. Barry Windeatt's contribution to the series is a comprehensive single-volume guide to Troilus and Criseyde, bringing together a wide range of material and providing a readable commentary on all aspects of the work. Combining the informative substance of a reference book with the coherence of a critical reading, the Guide has taken its place as the standard introduction to Troilus and Criseyde since its first publication in 1992.
Author : Steve Ellis
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 15,63 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199259120
"This text combines general essays and contextual information with detailed readings of specific Chaucerian texts. The volume is divided into five parts - 'Historical Contexts', 'Literary Contexts', 'Readings', 'Afterlife' and 'Study Resources'. Each chaper includes a Guide to Further Reading and there is a Chronology at the end of the volume" --Provided by publisher.
Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 1405 pages
File Size : 47,69 MB
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 161310250X
Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : American Chemical Society
Page : 1386 pages
File Size : 41,34 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages
ISBN : 0199552096
A re-editing of F.N. Robinson's second edition of The works of Geoffrey Chaucer published in 1957 by the team of experts at the Riverside Institute who have greatly expanded the introductory material, explanatory notes, textual notes, bibliography and glossary. The result of many years' study. The Riverside Chaucer is the most authentic and exciting edition available of Chaucer's complete works.
Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 42,48 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Chaucer, Geoffrey
ISBN : 1438113714
Presents a collection of critical essays on the Canterbury tales by Geoffrey Chaucer.