New Readings of Chaucer's Poetry
Derek Brewer editor Professor Robert G Benson editor Susan Ridyard editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Published:15th May '03
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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.
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 *
ISBN: 9780859917780
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 496g
210 pages