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New Readings of Chaucer's Poetry - Hardcover

 
9780859917780: New Readings of Chaucer's Poetry
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0859917789 ISBN 13: 9780859917780
Publisher: D.S.Brewer, 2003

Synopsis

A wide range of new scholarship on Chaucer's poetry. This collection of essays makes available a wide range of new scholarship on Chaucer's poetry. Opening essays address the issues of "Chaucerian representation" and "Chaucerian poetics", arguing for the multiplicity and complexityof what Chaucer "represents" and for the importance of his dual Anglo-French background in enabling him to articulate that complexity. Chaucer's use of Ovidian and Ciceronian sources and ideas is examined, and his pursuit of simplicity and suspicion of "delicacy"; the potent issues of sexuality and spirituality, and money and death (with Chaucer's own ending and his thoughts on last things) complete the collection. Contributors: DEREK BREWER, HELEN COOPER, PAUL DOWER, JOHN V. FLEMING, JOHN HILL, TRAUGOTT LAWLER, CELIA LEWIS, R. BARTON PALMER, WILLIAM PROVOST, JOHN PLUMMER, WILLIAM ROGERS.

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Review

A fascinating snapshot of contemporary scholarship. MEDIUM AEVUM
The collection is worth reading and offers some papers that constitute an advancement in Chaucer studies. ANGLIA

MEDIUM AEVUM, 2006

A fascinating snapshot of contemporary scholarship.

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Publisher
D.S.Brewer
Publication date
2003
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0859917789
ISBN 13 
9780859917780
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
210
Editor
Benson Professor Robert G., Ridyard Susan, Brewer Derek S