A concise companion to Chaucer [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Corinne Saunders
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| Titolo: |
A concise companion to Chaucer [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Corinne Saunders
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| Pubblicazione: | Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2006 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (306 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 821.1 |
| 821/.1 | |
| Altri autori: |
SaundersCorinne J. <1963->
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| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | A concise companion to Chaucer |
| ISBN: | 1-4051-6498-0 |
| 1-78268-435-2 | |
| 1-281-30836-6 | |
| 9786611308360 | |
| 0-470-75762-0 | |
| 1-4051-5462-4 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910145589203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Blackwell concise companions to literature and culture.