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Engaging with Chaucer : practice, authority, reading /

Why do we still read and discuss Chaucer? The answer may be simple: he is fun, and he challenges our intelligence and questions our certainties. This collected volume represents an homage to a toweringly great poet, as well as an acknowledgement of the intellectual excitement, challenges, and pleasu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Moseley C. W. R. D. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, 2021.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Title Page
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1. 'And gret wel Chaucer whan ye mete'
  • 2. Unhap, Misadventure, Infortune
  • 3. Chaucer's Tears
  • 4. In Appreciation of Metrical Abnormality
  • 5. Blanche, Two Chaucers and the Stanley Family
  • 6. 'Tu Numeris Elementa Ligas'
  • 7. Troilus and Criseyde and the 'Parfit Blisse of Love'
  • 8. Hateful Contraries in 'The Merchant's Tale'
  • 9. String Theory and 'The Man of Law's Tale'
  • 10. The Pardoner's Passing and How It Matters
  • 11. 'Double Sorrow'
  • Index