Chaucer and Langland : historical and textual approaches / George Kane.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kane, George, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Chaucer, Geoffrey.

Langland, William, 1330?-1400? Piers Plowman.

Langland, William.

English poetry--Middle English, 1100-1500--Criticism, Textual.

English poetry.

English poetry--Middle English, 1100-1500--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (322 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [1989]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1989.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgements

Preface

1. The Autobiographical Fallacy in Chaucer and Langland Studies

2. Chaucer and the Idea of a Poet

3. Chaucer, Love Poetry, and Romantic Love

4. The Liberating Truth: The Concept of Integrity in Chaucer's Writings

5. Philosophical Chaucer

6. Music 'Neither Unpleasant nor Monotonous'

7. Poetry and Lexicography in the Translation of Piers Plowman

8. The Perplexities of William Langland

9. Langland and Chaucer: An Obligatory Conjunction

10. Langland and Chaucer II

11. Conjectural Emendation

12. The Text of The Legend of Good Women in CUL MS Gg.4.27

13. John M. Manly (1865-1940) and Edith Rickert (1871-1938)

14. 'Good' and 'Bad' Manuscripts: Texts and Critics

15. Criticism, Solecism: Does it Matter?

16. Outstanding Problems of Middle English Scholarship

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520330160

0520330161

OCLC:

1149396445