A new companion to critical thinking on Chaucer / edited by Stephanie L. Batkie, Matthew W. Irvin, Lynn Shutters.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Batkie, Stephanie L., editor.

Irvin, Matthew W., editor.

Shutters, Lynn, editor.

Series:

Arc Companions

Companions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 348 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Leeds : Arc Humanities Press, 2021.

Summary:

This New Companion to Critical Thinking on Chaucer brings together preeminent scholars from around the world and adopts a novel approaching, beginning with the basics: Chaucer's words. Each chapter explores a single word from the Chaucerian corpus to develop readings that extend across the author's works. Without being limited to a particular text or theoretical approach, contributors model scholarly thinking in action, posing questions and offering analyses from textual, theoretical, historical, and material approaches. The result is a comprehensive collection of essays that illuminates Chaucer's aesthetics, philosophical complexity, and continued relevance. Part innovative scholarship, part how-to manual, the volume includes apparatus to help less experienced readers of Chaucer negotiate its contents. In addition to fourteen main essays, the volume also includes three response essays, each modelling how a seasoned scholar uses the chapters to develop his or her own thinking about Chaucer. Thus, the companion offers something to audiences of all levels who wish to read, research, and enjoy Chaucer, his language, and his works.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

References and Abbreviations

Foreword: Chaucer's Singular Vocabulary

Introduction

Contributors

PART ONE

Consent/ Assent

Entente

Pite

Slider

Response: Consent, Entente, Pite, Slider

PART TWO

Merveille

Virginite

Swiven

Craft

Response: Merveille, Virginite, Swiven, Craft

PART THREE

Vertu

Wal

Thing

Blak

Response: Vertu, Wal, Thing, Blak

PART FOUR

Auctorite/ Auctour

Seculere

Flesh

Memorie

Response: Auctorite, Seculere, Flesh, Memorie

Appendix 1: Summaries of the Works of Chaucer

Appendix 2: Additional Terms

Appendix 3: Coverage by Term

Appendix 4: Coverage by Work

Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 22 Oct 2021).

ISBN:

1-64189-252-8

OCLC:

1265580403