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Geoffrey Chaucer / editor, James M. Dean (Emeritus Professor of English, University of Delaware, Newark).
LIBRA PR1924 .G357 2017
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Critical insights
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400--Criticism and interpretation.
- Chaucer, Geoffrey.
- English poetry--Middle English, 1100-1500--History and criticism.
- English poetry.
- Civilization, Medieval, in literature.
- English poetry--Middle English.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 255 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc. ; Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, [2017]
- Summary:
- Geoffrey Chaucer, fourteenth-century master storyteller and comic genius, was the greatest English author of the Middle Ages. This volume includes essays that help explain why Chaucer is called the father of English letters. Essay topics include Chaucer as an international poet, gender and horror in The Canterbury Tales and Chaucer s links to Shakespeare.
- Contents:
- The book and the author. On Geoffrey Chaucer / James M. Dean ; Biography of Geoffrey Chaucer / Scott Lightsey
- Critical contexts. Harry Bailly's labor and time consciousness on Chaucer's Canterbury pilgrimage / Gregory M. Sadlek ; Chaucer's philosopher : Boethian contexts for reading Chaucer's poetry / Kevin J. Burke ; Reading lessons : Chaucer and the comfort of uncertainty / Susan Yager ; Selling satire : Gower, Chaucer, and the end of the estates / Roger A. Ladd
- Critical readings. Chaucer's language / Susan Yager ; Transnational Chaucer / Kathryn McKinley ; Chaucer's reality fiction / James M. Dean ; Chaucer, John Donne, and "The flea" : a "Robertsonian" perspective / Robert C. Evans ; Charting Chaucer : travel, mechanical magic, and controlling the narrative / Francis Tobienne Jr. ; Chaucer's international presence / Scott Lightsey ; The mortal spectacle : history in The monk's tale / James M. Dean ; Chaucer, Nashe, and the "The choice of Valentines" / Robert C. Evans ; Chaucer as a sociolinguist : understanding the role of language in Chaucer's internationalism / Jonathan Fruoco
- Resources. Chronology of Geoffrey Chaucer's life ; Works by Geoffrey Chaucer.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Albert C. Baugh Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781682172568
- 1682172562
- OCLC:
- 974669325
- Publisher Number:
- 99976739767
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