The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer

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Piero Boitani, Jill Mann
Cambridge University Press, 12.01.2004 - 336 Seiten
The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer is an extensively revised version of the first edition, which has become a classic in the field. This new volume responds to the success of the first edition and to recent debates in Chaucer Studies. Important material has been updated, and new contributions have been commissioned to take into account recent trends in literary theory as well as in studies of Chaucer's works. New chapters cover the literary inheritance traceable in his works to French and Italian sources, his style, as well as new approaches to his work. Other topics covered include the social and literary scene in England in Chaucer's time, and comedy, pathos and romance in the Canterbury Tales. The volume now offers a useful chronology, and the bibliography has been entirely updated to provide an indispensable guide for today's student of Chaucer.
 

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List of contributors
Chaucers French ARDIS BUTTERFIELD inheritance
Telling thestoryin Troilus and Criseyde
Chance and destiny in Troilus and Criseyde and the Knights
The Legend ofGood Women
personal drama or experimentsin
comedy
pathos ROBERT WORTH FRANKJR
Literary structures in Chaucer
Chaucers style
Chaucers presence and absence 14001550
New approachesto Chaucer
a guide to Chaucer studies
Urheberrecht

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Autoren-Profil (2004)

Piero Boitani is Professor of Comparative Literature in the Department of English at the University of Rome 'La Sapienza'. He is the author of many volumes including The Tragic and the Sublime in Medieval Literature (Cambridge University Press, 1989), The Shadow of Ulysses. Figures of a Myth (1994) and The Bible and its Rewritings (1999).

Jill Mann is Notre Dame Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame and Life Fellow of Girton College, Cambridge. She has written extensively on Geoffrey Chaucer and medieval authors including Langland, Malory and the Gawain-poet. Her most recent book is Feminizing Chaucer (2002).

Bibliografische Informationen

TitelThe Cambridge Companion to Chaucer
Cambridge Companions to Literature
HerausgeberPiero Boitani, Jill Mann
Ausgabe2, überarbeitet
VerlagCambridge University Press, 2004
ISBN1107494648, 9781107494640
Länge336 Seiten
  
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