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Chaucer

Presents a comprehensive selection of the key views of Chaucer in the twentieth century. This volume addresses the growth of Chaucer criticism over the centuries. It reflects the three major divisions of Chaucer's writing: "The Dream Vision" poetry, "Troilus and Criseyde", and "The Canterbury Tales".
Print Book, English, 2001
Blackwell Publishers, Oxford, U.K., 2001
Handbook
xi, 356 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
9780631217114, 9780631217121, 0631217118, 0631217126
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The English and European literary traditions / Derek Brewer
Chaucer: the teller and the tale / Gabriel Josipovici
The audience / Paul Strohm
The lady white and the white tablet: The book of duchess / Judith Ferster
'The Dido episode' in The house of fame / Wolfgang Clemen
Chaucer's fame and her world: the poem / Piero Boitani
Park of paradise and garden of love / J.A.W. Bennett
The parliament of fowls / A.C. Spearing
The narrator as translator / Donald W. Rowe
Chaucer's classical legendary / Lisa J. Kiser
The ending of 'Troilus' / E. Talbot Donaldson
The heart and the chain / John Leyerle
Criseyde: woman in Medieval society / David Aers
Coda: the narrator / C. David Benson
History versus romance / Lee Patterson
The unity of the Canterbury tales / Robert M. Jordan
The esthetics of this form / Donald R. Howard
An encyclopedia of kinds / Helen Cooper
The knight's tale and its settings / V.A. Kolve
Fabliau, confession, satire / W.A. Davenport
Gems of chastity / Ian Bishop
Anti-feminism / Jill Mann
The Franklin's tale / Angela Jane Weisl
'Glose/Bele chose': the wife of Bath and her glossators, Eunuch Hermeneutics / Carolyn Dinshaw
Mainly in English, with some Middle English