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Geoffrey Chaucer / edited, with an introduction, by Harold Bloom.
LIBRA PR1924 .G35 1985
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Modern critical views
- Modern critical views.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400--Criticism and interpretation.
- Chaucer, Geoffrey.
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- 149 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Chelsea House, 1985.
- Summary:
- -- Brings together the best criticism on the most widely read poets, novelists, and playwrights-- Presents complex critical portraits of the most influential writers in the English-speaking world -- from the English medievalists to contemporary writers
- Contents:
- The greatness of Chaucer / G.K. Chesterton
- The ending of Troilus ; The effect of the "Merchant's tale" / E. Talbot Donaldson
- Can we trust the wife of Bath? / David Parker
- From medieval to Renaissance / Alice S. Miskimin
- The idea of The Canterbury tales / Donald R. Howard
- The importance of the literal / Charles A. Owen
- Truth and fiction in the "Nun's priest's tale" / Saul Nathaniel Brody
- Literal and symbolic in The Canterbury tales / Stewart Justman.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: pages 141-142.
- ISBN:
- 0877546061
- OCLC:
- 11398579
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