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English literature in the age of Chaucer / Dieter Mehl.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mehl, Dieter.
- Series:
- Longman literature in English series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400.
- English literature--Middle English, 1100-1500--History and criticism--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400--Criticism and interpretation--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400--Contemporaries--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Contemporaries.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- English literature.
- Genre:
- Handbooks and manuals.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 252 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Harlow, England ; New York : Longman, 2001.
- Contents:
- 2 Geoffrey Chaucer 8
- Reading and translating 11
- The Book of the Duchess 14
- The Parliament of Fowls 16
- The House of Fame 19
- Troilus and Criseyde 22
- The Legend of Good Women 32
- The Canterbury Tales 36
- 3 John Gower 60
- The Gower canon 61
- Confessio Amantis: transmission and genesis 62
- The frame and the tales 64
- The lover's shrift and the closing of the frame 72
- 4 William Langland 80
- Text, texts and poem 80
- Piers Plowman in its time 82
- Structure and narrative discourse 83
- Allegorical method, homiletic criticism and theological argument 87
- 5 The Gawain-Poet 108
- Patience 110
- Cleanness 113
- Pearl 116
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 119
- 6 John Lydgate and Thomas Hoccleve 127
- Courtly love poems 128
- Major translations and adaptations 135
- A monastic hack-writer? 144
- Thomas Hoccleve 146
- 7 The Middle English Lyric 157
- Love, fun and day-to-day trouble in the secular lyric 158
- Carols and religious lyrics 161
- Historical and political poems 167
- 8 Middle Scots Poetry 173
- James I of Scotland: The Kingis Quair 173
- Richard Holland: The Book of the Houlat 175
- Robert Henryson 176
- William Dunbar 183
- Gavin Douglas 186
- 9 Middle English Prose 194
- Mandeville's Travels 195
- Prose writing of the English mystics 201
- The Book of Margery Kempe 207
- Prose narrative: Thomas Malory and Morte Darthur 211.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-245) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0582492998
- OCLC:
- 47018441
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