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Birney Earle <1904-1995, >
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Titolo: |
Essays on Chaucerian irony / / Earle Birney ; edited, with an essay on irony by Beryl Rowland
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Pubblicazione: | Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1985 |
©1985 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (193 p.) |
Disciplina: | 821/.1 |
Soggetto topico: | Irony in literature |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Anecdotes. |
Humor | |
Electronic books. | |
Persona (resp. second.): | RowlandBeryl |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Essays on Chaucerian irony ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-4426-3368-9 |
1-4426-3200-3 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910797250103321 |
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