Geoffrey Chaucer / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bloom, Harold.

Series:

Bloom's modern critical views

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400--Criticism and interpretation.

Chaucer, Geoffrey.

Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400.

Civilization, Medieval, in literature.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

vii, 259 pages ; 25 cm.

Edition:

Updated edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloom's Literary Criticism, [2007]

Summary:

Geoffrey Chaucer is considered the greatest English author writing before Shakespeare. His masterpiece, The Canterbury Tales, is an unforgettable collection of verse stories told by fictional pilgrims on their way to the cathedral at Canterbury. The essays gathered in this updated volume attest to the continued relevance of the first great writer in the English language.

Contents:

The ending of "Troilus" / E. Talbot Donaldson

The prologue to The legend of good women / Robert Worth Frank, Jr

Epic theater : the comedy and the Canterbury tales (the knight and the miller) / Richard Neuse

The riddle of sovereignty / Manuel Aguirre

New armor for the Amazons : the wife of Bath and a genealogy of Ovidianism / Michael A. Calabrese

Chaucer's Second nun's tale and the apocalyptic imagination / Eileen Jankowski

Reframing the violence of the father : reverse Oedipal fantasies in Chaucer's Clerk's, Man of law's, and Prioress's tales / Barrie Ruth Straus

Chaucer's Shipman's tale, Boccaccio, and the "civilizing" of fabliau / John Finlayson

Time as rhetorical topos in Chaucer's poetry / Martin Camargo

Countervailing aesthetic of joy in Troilus and Criseyde / John M. Hill.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-248) and index.

ISBN:

9780791094389

0791094383

OCLC:

86172847