| Description |
1 online resource (265 pages) |
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Longman Literature In English Series |
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Longman literature in English series.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Editors' Preface; Longman Literature in English Series; Author's Preface; List of Abbreviations; 1 Introduction: The Age of Chaucer; 2 Geoffrey Chaucer; Reading and translating; The Book of the Duchess; The Parliament of Fowls; The House of Fame; Troilus and Criseyde; The Legend of Good Women; The Canterbury Tales; 3 John Gower; The Gower canon; Confessio Amantis: transmission and genesis; The frame and the tales; The lover's shrift and the closing of the frame; 4 William Langland; Text, texts and poem |
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Piers Plowman in its timeStructure and narrative discourse; Allegorical method, homiletic criticism and theological argument; 5 The Gawain-Poet; Patience; Cleanness; Pearl; Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; 6 John Lydgate and Thomas Hoccleve; Courtly love poems; Major translations and adaptations; A monastic hack-writer?; Thomas Hoccleve; 7 The Middle English Lyric; Love, fun and day-to-day trouble in the secular lyric; Carols and religious lyrics; Historical and political poems; 8 Middle Scots Poetry; James I of Scotland: The Kingis Quair; Richard Holland: The Book of the Houlat |
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Robert HenrysonWilliam Dunbar; Gavin Douglas; 9 Middle English Prose; Mandeville's Travels; Prose writing of the English mystics; The Book of Margery Kempe; Prose narrative: Thomas Malory and Morte Darthur; Conclusion; Chronology; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Written in an engaging and accessible manner, English Literature in the Age of Chaucer serves as both a lucid introduction to Middle English literature for those coming fresh to the study of earlier English writing, and as a stimulating examination of the themes, traditions and the literary achievement of a number of particulary original and interesting authors. In addition to detailed and sensitive treatment of Chaucer's major works, the book includes chapters on his chief contemporaries, such as John Gower, William Langland and the Gawain-poet. It also examines the often underrated c |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 -- Criticism and interpretation -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 -- Contemporaries -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
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| SUBJECT |
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 fast |
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POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Contemporaries
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Handbooks and manuals
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317871552 |
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1317871553 |
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1306869587 |
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9781306869584 |
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