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Record Nr.

UNISA996203963403316

Titolo

A concise companion to Chaucer [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Corinne Saunders

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2006

ISBN

1-4051-6498-0

1-78268-435-2

1-281-30836-6

9786611308360

0-470-75762-0

1-4051-5462-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (306 p.)

Collana

Blackwell concise companions to literature and culture

Altri autori (Persone)

SaundersCorinne J. <1963->

Disciplina

821.1

821/.1

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Politics and London life / Marion Turner -- Manuscripts and audience / Julia Boffey and Tony Edwards -- Books and authority / Robert F. Yeager -- Courtly writing / Barry Windeatt -- Dreaming / Steven Kruger -- Love in wartime: Troilus and Criseyde as Trojan history / Andrew Lynch -- Love and the making of the self: Troilus and Criseyde / Corinne Saunders -- Tragedy and romance in Chaucer's 'litel bok' of Troilus and Criseyde / Norman Klassen -- The genre of The Canterbury tales / Genre in the Canterbury Tales / Judith Ferster -- Richard Firth Green (to come) -- Sexuality, marriage and the family / Neil Cartlidge -- Christianity and the church / John Hirsh -- Reading Chaucer aloud - David Fuller.

Sommario/riassunto

This concise companion provides a succinct introduction to Chaucer's major works, the contexts in which he wrote, and to medieval thought more generally.:.; Opens with a general introductory section discussing London life and politics, books and authority, manuscripts and readers.; Subsequent sections focus on Chaucer's major works – the dream visions, Troilus and Criseyde and The Canterbury Tales .; Essays



highlight the key religious, political and intellectual contexts for each major work.; Also covers important general topics, including: medieval literary genres; dream theory; the Church; g