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UNINA9910451708403321 |
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Ellis Steve |
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Titolo |
Chaucer at Large [[electronic resource] ] : The Poet in the Modern Imagination |
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Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2000 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (220 p.) |
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Chaucer, Geoffrey |
Medievalism |
Middle Ages in literature |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Kelmscott Chaucer; 2. Popular Chaucer; 3. Spoken Chaucer; 4. Children's Chaucer; 5. English Chaucer; 6. Writers' Chaucer; 7. Translated Chaucer; 8. Performance Chaucer; 9. Novel Chaucer; 10. Concluding Chaucer; Notes; Index |
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In this learned, lively, and wide-ranging book, Steve Ellis conducts us on a tour of the appearances that the greatest writer of Middle English has made throughout English-speaking culture in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Surveying the uses to which Chaucer has been put in modern times, Ellis presents a compelling picture that goes beyond the figure and work of this eminent writer to show us the reach of his imaginative power."An attractively lucid book, highly intelligent, perceptive, wide-ranging, but also modestly written. The story Ellis has to tell is often quite extraordin |
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UNINA9910781798403321 |
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Bivins Roberta E. <1970-> |
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Alternative medicine? [[electronic resource] ] : a history / / Roberta Bivins |
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Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007 |
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1-283-22265-5 |
9786613222657 |
0-19-161382-7 |
0-19-156881-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (369 p.) |
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Alternative medicine - History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; dedication; Contents; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; Introduction: 'Rival Systems of Medicine'?; 1. 'What is this Burning?'; 2. Health and The New Science'; 3. 'The Chinese Have a Great Deal of Wit'; 4. With our Western Brethren, the Case Seems to be Quite Different'; Conclusion: Pragmatism, Pluralism, and the (Im)Patient-Consumer; FURTHER READING; NOTES; INDEX |
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Walk into the local health food shop or pick up today's paper and the chances are that you'll see adverts for acupuncture and herbal medicine, hypnotists and homeopaths. Some doctors and scientists mourn the lost lustre of mainstream medicine and complain about a new breed of 'irrational' consumer. But what exactly is 'alternative' medicine? Is the astonishing popularity of alternative and multicultural medicine really such a recent development? And, given the success story of modern biomedical science, why are alternative and traditional treatments now so fashionable? Has the impersonal chill |
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