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Oxford Guides to Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales
Author | : |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 501 |
Release | : 2023-08-31 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 0198821425 |
Recognised on its first appearance as the most comprehensive single-volume guide to The Canterbury Tales yet produced, this third edition brings the Tales up to date in relation both to recent criticism and to the changing expectations of modern readers. The Guide provide tale-by-tale information on textual variations and sources, together with a readable commentary on thematic issues, structure, style, generic affiliations, and the contribution of each tale to the work as a whole. It concludes with a survey of the many imitations of the tales down to the early seventeenth century. This new edition also takes account of the latest scholarship, theory, and criticism and new interpretations of the tales, including such matters as gender identity, consent, and racial and religious difference. The book is the most comprehensive single-volume guide to the Tales yet produced, bringing together a wide range of disparate material and providing a readable commentary on all aspects of the work. It combines the comprehensive coverage of a reference book with the clarity and coherence of a critical account. Since its first publication in 1989, the Guide has established itself as an indispensable aid for any reader looking to develop their understanding of The Canterbury Tales.
The Canterbury Tales
Author | : Helen Cooper |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780198111900 |
Since its first publication in 1989, Helen Cooper's guide to The Canterbury Tales has established itself as the standard work on the poem. This second edition continues to offer the most comprehensive scrutiny of the Tales both as a whole and individually. In addition, Cooper incorporates themost significant recent scholarship and criticism, reflecting current research in the areas of Chaucer's historical and social context and developments in the interpretation of Chaucer's presentation of women.
Oxford Guides to Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales
Author | : Helen Cooper |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 691 |
Release | : 2023-07-13 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0198878796 |
Recognised on its first appearance as the most comprehensive single-volume guide to The Canterbury Tales yet produced, this third edition brings the Tales up to date in relation both to recent criticism and to the changing expectations of modern readers. The Guide provide tale-by-tale information on textual variations and sources, together with a readable commentary on thematic issues, structure, style, generic affiliations, and the contribution of each tale to the work as a whole. It concludes with a survey of the many imitations of the tales down to the early seventeenth century. This new edition also takes account of the latest scholarship, theory, and criticism and new interpretations of the tales, including such matters as gender identity, consent, and racial and religious difference. The book is the most comprehensive single-volume guide to the Tales yet produced, bringing together a wide range of disparate material and providing a readable commentary on all aspects of the work. It combines the comprehensive coverage of a reference book with the clarity and coherence of a critical account. Since its first publication in 1989, the Guide has established itself as an indispensable aid for any reader looking to develop their understanding of The Canterbury Tales.
Chaucer
Author | : Steve Ellis |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press on Demand |
Total Pages | : 644 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780199259120 |
"This text combines general essays and contextual information with detailed readings of specific Chaucerian texts. The volume is divided into five parts - 'Historical Contexts', 'Literary Contexts', 'Readings', 'Afterlife' and 'Study Resources'. Each chaper includes a Guide to Further Reading and there is a Chronology at the end of the volume" --Provided by publisher.
Oxford Guides to Chaucer: Troilus and Criseyde
Author | : Barry Windeatt |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 477 |
Release | : 2023-10-31 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 0198878818 |
This is a comprehensive critical guide to Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde. This new edition has been comprehensively revised in light of the latest scholarly and critical research and with a fully updated bibliography. It includes a full account of Chaucer's imaginative deployment of his sources, and an extended survey of this narrative poem's innovative combination of a range of generic identities. The chapters explain how Chaucer builds thematic significance into his poem's symmetrical structure, and the poem's distinctive variety in style and language, as well as a full commentary on the poem's concerns with love in the contexts of time and mutability and human free will. The Guide explores the poem as an extended debate about the nature and value of love, and how love was conceptualized and experienced as a form of service in quest of compassionate reward, a quasi-religious devotion, and a potentially fatal illness always in hope of cure. The subjectivities of the chief protagonists are fully analysed, as is the poem's problematic ending. Alongside discussions of theme and structure, there is also an account of what the extant manuscripts of Troilus and Criseyde may reveal about the poem's early genesis, and a unique survey of responses to Troilus from its own times to the present day. Barry Windeatt's contribution to the series is a comprehensive single-volume guide to Troilus and Criseyde, bringing together a wide range of material and providing a readable commentary on all aspects of the work. Combining the informative substance of a reference book with the coherence of a critical reading, the Guide has taken its place as the standard introduction to Troilus and Criseyde since its first publication in 1992.
The Shorter Poems
Author | : Alastair J. Minnis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781383003635 |
This book highlights the cultural significance of Chaucer's Shorter Poems, both in the poet's day and our own. These important but often neglected texts by Chaucer - 'The Book of the Duchess', 'House of Fame', the 'Parliament of Fowls', and 'Legend of Good Women' - are at last made accessible to students and readers.
The Canterbury Tales
Author | : Harold Bloom |
Publisher | : Infobase Publishing |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Chaucer, Geoffrey |
ISBN | : 1438113714 |
Presents a collection of critical essays on the Canterbury tales by Geoffrey Chaucer.
Bloom's how to Write about Geoffrey Chaucer
Author | : Michelle M. Sauer |
Publisher | : Infobase Publishing |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Criticism |
ISBN | : 1604133309 |
Fourteenth-century author, poet, and civil servant Geoffrey Chaucer has delighted readers through the ages with his colorful tales filled with humanity, grace, and strength. He is best known for ""The Canterbury Tales"", a vibrant account of life in England during his own day. That canonical work, along with some of Chaucer's lesser-known works, is thoughtfully presented in this invaluable reference resource. This new volume in the ""Bloom's How to Write about Literature"" series assists students in developing paper topics about this frequently studied Englishman.