The Cambridge companion to Chaucer
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The Cambridge companion to Chaucer
（Cambridge companions to literature）
Cambridge University Press, 2003
2nd ed
- : hardback
- : pbk
Available at 42 libraries
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Text in English; includes quotations in middle English
Rev. ed. of: The Cambridge Chaucer companion / edited by Piero Boitani and Jill Mann. 1986
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer is an extensively revised version of the first edition, which has become a classic in the field. This new volume responds to the success of the first edition and to recent debates in Chaucer Studies. Important material has been updated, and new contributions have been commissioned to take into account recent trends in literary theory as well as in studies of Chaucer's works. New chapters cover the literary inheritance traceable in his works to French and Italian sources, his style, as well as new approaches to his work. Other topics covered include the social and literary scene in England in Chaucer's time, and comedy, pathos and romance in the Canterbury Tales. The volume now offers a useful chronology, and the bibliography has been entirely updated to provide an indispensable guide for today's student of Chaucer.
Table of Contents
- 1. The social and literary scene in England Paul Strohm
- 2. Chaucer's French inheritance Ardis Butterfield
- 3. Chaucer's Italian inheritance David Wallace
- 4. Old books brought to life in dreams: the Book of the Duchess, the House of Fame, the Parliament of Fowls Piero Boitani
- 5. Telling the story in Troilus and Criseyde Mark Lambert
- 6. Chance and destiny in Troilus and Criseyde and The Knight's Tale Jill Mann
- 7. The Legend of Good Women Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards
- 8. The Canterbury Tales: personal drama or experiments in poetic variety? C. David Benson
- 9. The Canterbury Tales I: Romance J. A. Burrow
- 10. The Canterbury Tales II: Comedy Derek Pearsall
- 11. The Canterbury Tales III: Pathos Robert Worth Frank, Jr.
- 12. The Canterbury Tales IV: Exemplum and fable A. C. Spearing
- 13. Literary structures in Chaucer Barry A. Windeatt
- 14. Chaucer's style Christopher Cannon
- 15. Chaucer's presence and absence, 1400-1542 James Simpson
- 16. New approaches to Chaucer Carolyn Dinshaw
- 17. Further reading: a guide to Chaucer studies Joerg Fichte.
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