Chapters on Chaucer / by Kemp Malone

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910524847903321
• Autore: Malone Kemp <1889-1971, >
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Johns Hopkins University Press
• ISBN: 0-8018-0419-1; 1-4214-3385-0
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (ix, 240 pages)
• Disciplina: 821.17
• Soggetti: Literature: history & criticism; Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Geoffrey Chaucer and the fourteenth century -- The Book of the duchess -- The House of fame -- The Parliament of fowls -- The Legend of good women -- Troilus and Criseyde -- Troilus and Criseyde (continued) -- The general prolog of the "Canterbury Tales" -- The Canterbury pilgrims -- The Canterbury pilgrims (continued) -- The Canterbury pilgrims (continued).
• Sommario/riassunto: Originally published in 1951. Kemp Malone provides a guide to reading Chaucer's work that is intended for readers who are familiar with Chaucer's work but who are not Chaucerians. The first chapter places Chaucer in the historical and literary context of the fourteenth century. The other essays focus on Chaucer's poetry by providing historicized interpretations of Chaucer's work and methods for each poem.