Yale Companion to Chaucer

Name: Yale Companion to Chaucer
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ISBN: 9780300125979

ISBN-10: 0300125976

ISBN-13: 9780300125979

Edition: 2008

Authors: Seth Lerer

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This new collection of specially commissioned essays on Chaucer's poetry is a single-volume guide to the best and most inventive work in Chaucerian studies today. The first such book written with American undergraduate and graduate students in mind, "The Yale Companion to Chaucer" provides up-to-date information on the history and textual contexts of Chaucer's work, on the ranges of current critical interpretation, and on the poet's place in English and European literary history. With close readings of major texts, the book offers ample material for studying philology, history, and textual criticism as they bear on Chaucer's work in particular and medieval literature in general. Both…

Book details

List price: $48.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 12/28/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 0.61" wide x 0.92" long x 0.11" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English



Acknowledgments


A Note on Editions and Abbreviations


Introduction




Contexts and Cultures



The Lives of Geoffrey Chaucer




Chaucer as a European Writer




Chaucer as an English Writer




Chaucer and Rhetoric




Major Works, Major Issues



The Dream Visions




Lyrics and Short Poems




Troilus and Criseyde




The Canterbury Tales




Critical Approaches and Afterlives



Chaucer's Influence and Reception




Chaucer Criticism and Its Legacies




Appendixes



Chronology: Major Dates and Events in Chaucer's Life and Times



Guides to the Textual Study of Chaucer



The Canterbury Tales: Order and Pattern



Maps


Bibliography


List of Contributors


Index