Chapters on Chaucer by Kemp Malone.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Malone, Kemp, 1889-1971, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chaucer, Geoffrey.

Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400.

Chaucer, Geoffrey--Crítica e interpretación.

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

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 240 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Johns Hopkins University Press

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Originally published in 1951. Kemp Malone provides a guide to reading Chaucer's work that is intended for readers who are familiar with Chaucer's work but who are not Chaucerians. The first chapter places Chaucer in the historical and literary context of the fourteenth century. The other essays focus on Chaucer's poetry by providing historicized interpretations of Chaucer's work and methods for each poem.

Contents:

Geoffrey Chaucer and the fourteenth century

The Book of the duchess

The House of fame

The Parliament of fowls

The Legend of good women

Troilus and Criseyde

Troilus and Criseyde (continued)

The general prolog of the "Canterbury Tales"

The Canterbury pilgrims

The Canterbury pilgrims (continued)

The Canterbury pilgrims (continued).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-8018-0419-1

1-4214-3385-0

OCLC:

1122448584