Essays on Chaucerian irony / / Earle Birney ; edited, with an essay on irony by Beryl Rowland

• Autore: Birney Earle <1904-1995, >
• 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.: 9910828586103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II