The shorter poems
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Author
Contributions
- Scattergood, V. J. - Contributor
- Smith, J. J. - Contributor
Publication
1995 - Clarendon Press, Oxford, England
Language
English
Word Count
144,500 words, Guess
Page Count
578 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL1100324M
- ISBN-100198111932
- OCLC Control Number31239303
- OCLC Control Numbershorterpoems0000minn
- Library of Congress Control Number94025135
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- Goodreads483667
- LibraryThing5369588
Classifications
- DDC821/.1
- LCCPR1924 .M47 1995
Description
This third volume in the highly successful Oxford Guides to Chaucer series offers a much-needed introduction to Chaucer's Shorter Poems. A general chapter on the social and cultural contexts of the Shorter Poems is followed by a guide to the main genre which they exemplify - the love-vision form. The volume then provides individual chapters on the Book of the Duchess, the House of Fame, the Parliament of Fowls, the Legend of Good Women, and the short poems; there is also an extensive appendix on Chaucer's language. The views of critics who wrote over fifty years ago are interwoven with recently published ones: scholarship on dates and sources is combined with contemporary theoretical approaches, literary history of a traditional kind with now-current historicist approaches, and medieval hermeneutics with modern. Introducing Chaucer, the volume maintains, must entail the presentation of diverse methods of reading Chaucer.
Subjects
Series Statement
- Oxford guides to Chaucer
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