Format:
IX, 167 S.
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Ill.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2014 Online-Ressource Cambridge books online
ISBN:
9781107699908
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9781107064867
Series Statement:
Cambridge introductions to literature
Content:
"Geoffrey Chaucer is the best-known and most widely read of all medieval British writers, famous for his scurrilous humour and biting satire against the vices and absurdities of his age. Yet he was also a poet of passionate love, sensitive to issues of gender and sexual difference, fascinated by the ideological differences between the pagan past and the Christian present, and a man of science, knowledgeable in astronomy, astrology and alchemy. This concise book is an ideal starting point for study of all his major poems, particularly The Canterbury Tales, to which two chapters are devoted. It offers close readings of individual texts, presenting various possibilities for interpretation, and includes discussion of Chaucer's life, career, historical context and literary influences. An account of the various ways in which he has been understood over the centuries leads into an up-to-date, annotated guide to further reading"--
Content:
"Geoffrey Chaucer is the best-known and most widely read of all medieval British writers, famous for his scurrilous humour and biting satire against the vices and absurdities of his age. Yet he was also a poet of passionate love, sensitive to issues of gender and sexual difference, fascinated by the ideological differences between the pagan past and the Christian present, and a man of science, knowledgeable in astronomy, astrology and alchemy. This concise book is an ideal starting point for study of all his major poems, particularly The Canterbury Tales, to which two chapters are devoted. It offers close readings of individual texts, presenting various possibilities for interpretation, and includes discussion of Chaucer's life, career, historical context and literary influences. An account of the various ways in which he has been understood over the centuries leads into an up-to-date, annotated guide to further reading"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Machine generated contents note: Introduction: life and historical contexts; 1. Love and lore: the shorter poems; 2. Fictions of antiquity: Troilus and Criseyde and The Legend of Good Women; 3. The Canterbury Tales, I: war, love, laughter; 4. The Canterbury Tales, II: experience and authority; Afterword; Guide to further reading.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107587861
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107064867
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Minnis, Alastair J., 1948 - The Cambridge introduction to Chaucer Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2014 ISBN 9781107699908
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107064867
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
Chaucer, Geoffrey 1343-1400
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9781107587861
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