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Birney Earle <1904-1995, > |
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Essays on Chaucerian irony / / Earle Birney ; edited, with an essay on irony by Beryl Rowland |
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Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1985 |
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©1985 |
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ISBN |
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1-4426-3368-9 |
1-4426-3200-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (193 p.) |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Irony in literature |
Anecdotes. |
Humor |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Seven Kinds of Irony / Beryl Rowland -- The Two Worlds of Geoffrey Chaucer -- English Irony Before Chaucer -- Is Chaucer's Irony a Modern Discovery? -- The Beginnings of Chaucer's Irony -- The Inhibited and Uninhibited: Ironic Structure in the Miller's Tale -- 'After his Ymage': The Central Ironies of the Friar's Tale -- Structural Irony within the Summoner's Tale -- Chaucer's 'Gentil' Manciple and his 'Gentil' Tale -- Bibliography of 'Seven Kinds of Irony' -- General Bibliography on Chaucer's Irony -- Bibliography on the Miller's Prologue and Tale -- Bibliography on the Friar's Prologue and Tale -- Bibliography on the Summoner's Prologue and Tale -- Bibliography on the Manciple's Prologue and Tale. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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These essays€have remained classics of their kind. They include important discussions on irony-its native traditions and its occurrence in early English literature, an account of critics' appreciation of Chaucerian irony prior to this century, and a detailed examination of four of the Canterbury Tales. |
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