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Autore: | Ellis Steve |
Titolo: | Chaucer at Large [[electronic resource] ] : The Poet in the Modern Imagination |
Pubblicazione: | Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2000 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (220 p.) |
Disciplina: | 821.1 |
821/.1 | |
Soggetto topico: | Chaucer, Geoffrey |
Medievalism | |
Middle Ages in literature | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | Chaucer at Large |
ISBN: | 0-8166-5278-3 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910784103503321 |
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