A Concise Companion to Chaucer
This concise companion provides a succinct introduction toChaucer's major works, the contexts in which he wrote, and tomedieval thought more generally.* * Opens with a general introductory section discussing Londonlife and politics, books and authority, manuscripts andreaders.* Subsequent sections focus on Chaucer's major works- the dream visions, Troilus and Criseyde and TheCanterbury Tales.* Essays highlight the key religious, political and intellectualcontexts for each major work.* Also covers important general topics, including: medievalliterary genres; dream theory; the Church; gender and sexuality;and reading Chaucer aloud.* Designed so…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4051-5462-8
- EAN: 9781405154628
- Produktnummer: 13901891
- Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 304 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 1'717 KB
Über den Autor
Corinne Saunders is Reader in Medieval Literature at the University of Durham. Her previous publications include The Forest of Medieval Romance (1993), Rape and Ravishment in the Literature of Medieval England (2001), Chaucer (2001) in the Blackwell Guides to Criticism series, and A Companion to Romance: From Classical to Contemporary (Blackwell Publishing, 2004).
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