Chaucer Contemporary Approaches

Name: Chaucer Contemporary Approaches
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ISBN: 9780271035680

ISBN-10: 0271035684

ISBN-13: 9780271035680

Edition: 2009

Authors: Susanna Fein, David Raybin

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Chaucer was an extraordinary writer who expressed the tenor of his times with ingenious verbal facility and a profound sympathy for the human condition. Like his original work, the ongoing study of his life, writings, and culture reflects the questions, conversations, and scholarly approaches of contemporary society. A renaissance of sorts in Chaucer studies has been flourishing in recent years, led by the scholars represented in this volume. They continue to chart a course for the next generation of work on Chaucer and medieval English literary studies.Susanna Fein and David Raybin, editors of The Chaucer Review, have organized this volume to showcase those strands of inquiry and…

Book details

List price: $47.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Publication date: 5/15/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.78" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

David Raybin is Professor of English at Eastern Illinois University and co-editor of The Chaucer Review.



List of Illustrations


Preface



Acknowledgments



Chaucer's Places



Italy




France




England




Chaucer's Audiences



Manuscripts and Scribes




Receptions: Medieval, Tudor, Modern




Chaucer and Language



Language in Use




Colonialism, Latinity, and Resistance




Reenvisioning Chaucer



Humor in Perspective




Dream Poems




Gender and Sexuality




Literary History



Bibliography


Editors and Contributors


Index