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Title The Oxford handbook of Chaucer / edited by Suzanne Conklin Akbari and James Simpson
Edition First edition
Published Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020
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Series Oxford handbooks
Oxford handbooks.
Contents Introduction: "Placing the Past" / Suzanne Conklin Akbari -- Boccaccio's Early Romances / Warren Ginsberg -- Chaucer's Petrarch: 'enlumnyed ben they' / Ronald L. Martinez -- Dante and the Medieval City: How the Dead Live / David L. Pike -- The Romance of the Rose : Allegory and Lyric Voice / David F. Hult -- Challenging the Patronage Paradigm: Late-Medieval Francophone Writers and the Poet-Prince Relationship / Deborah McGrady -- Ovid: Artistic Identity and Intertextuality / Jamie C. Fumo -- Chaucer and the Textualities of Troy / Marilynn Desmond -- Historiography: Nicholas Trevet's Transnational History / Suzanne Conklin Akbari -- Grammar and Rhetoric, c. 1100-c. 1400 / Rita Copeland -- Philosophy, Logic and Nominalism / Fabienne Michelet, Martin Pickavé -- 'Gaufred, deere maister soverain': Chaucer and Rhetoric / James Simpson -- The Poetics of Trespass and Duress: Chaucer and the Fifth Inn of Court / Eleanor Johnson -- Medicine and Science in Chaucer's Day / E. Ruth Harvey -- Logic and Mathematics: The Oxford Calculators / Edith Dudley Sylla -- Wycliffism and its After-Effects / Stephen E. Lahey -- "Anticlericalism," Inter-clerical Polemic and Theological Vernaculars / Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, Melissa Mayus, Katie Ann-Marie Bugyis -- Chaucer as Image-Maker / Denise Despres -- Chaucer's Travels for the Court / Peter Brown -- 'O Hebraic People!' English Jews and the Twelfth-Century Literary Scene / Ruth Nisse -- Anti-Judaism / Anti-Semitism and the Structures of Chaucerian Thought / Steven F. Kruger -- The Hazards of Narration: Frame-Tale Technologies and the 'Oriental Tale' / Karla Mallette -- Fictions of Espionage: Performing Pilgrim and Crusader Identities in the Age of Chaucer / Suzanne M. Yeager -- Geographesis, or the Afterlife of Britain in Chaucer / Jeffrey Jerome Cohen -- Vernacular Authorship and Public Poetry: John Gower / T. Matthew N. McCabe -- Lydgate's Chaucer / Anthony Bale -- Chaucer and Contemporary Courts of Law and Politics: House, Law, Game / Matthew Giancarlo -- Dialogism in Hoccleve / Jonathan M. Newman -- Old Books and New Beginnings North of Chaucer: Revisionary Reframings in the Kingis Quair and the Testament of Cresseid / Iain Macleod Higgins -- At Home in the 'Countour-Hous': Inhabiting Space on Chaucer's Polyglot Dwellings / Jonathan Hsy -- Labour and Time / Kellie Robertson -- Books and Booklessness in Chaucer's England / Alexandra Gillespie -- The Role of the Scribe: Genius of the Book / Martha Rust -- Dante and the Author of the Decameron : Love, Literature, and Authority in Boccaccio / Martin Eisner
Summary This handbook addresses Chaucer's poetry in the context of several disciplines, including late medieval philosophy and science, Mediterranean culture, comparative European literature, vernacular theology and popular devotion
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital cover (viewed on September 16, 2020)
Subject Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 -- Criticism and interpretation
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400.
SUBJECT Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 fast
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Akbari, Suzanne Conklin, editor.
Simpson, James, 1954- editor.
ISBN 9780191649387
0191649384
9780191750045
0191750042
Other Titles Chaucer