A Companion to Chaucer

Herausgeber: Brown, Peter

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Designed as both a contribution to original research and as a stimulating and accessible text, this volume is a helpful, reliable, responsive and adaptable resource for students of Chaucer at all levels.

Produktdetails

• Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
• Verlag: Blackwell Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 544
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Oktober 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 935g
• ISBN-13: 9780631235903
• ISBN-10: 0631235906
• Artikelnr.: 13585682

Autorenporträt

Peter Brown is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Kent and Chair of its School of English. His publications include Reading Dreams: The Interpretation of Dreams from Chaucer to Shakespeare (editor and contributor), Chaucer at Work: The Making of the Canterbury Tales, and, with Andrew Butcher, The Age of Saturn: Literature and History in the Canterbury Tales.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations viii
The Contributors ix
Acknowledgements xv
Abbreviations of Chaucer's Works xvi
The Idea of a Chaucer Companion 1
Peter Brown
1 Afterlife 8
Carolyn Collette
2 Authority 23
Andrew Galloway
3 Bodies 40
Linda Ehrsam Voigts
4 Chivalry 58
Derek Brewer
5 Christian Ideologies 75
Nicholas Watson
6 Comedy 90
Laura Kendrick
7 Contemporary English Writers 114
James Simpson
8 Crisis and Dissent 133
Alcuin Blamires
9 France 149
Michael Hanly
10 Games 167
Malcolm Andrew
11 Genre 180
Caroline D. Eckhardt
12 Geography and Travel 195
Scott D. Westrem
13 Italy 218
David Wallace
14 Language 235
David Burnley
15 Life Histories 251
Janette Dillon
16 London 266
Michael Hanrahan
17 Love 281
Helen Phillips
18 Modes of Representation 296
Edward Wheatley
19 Narrative 312
Robert R. Edwards
20 Other Thought-worlds 332
Susanna Fein
21 Pagan Survivals 349
John M. Fyler
22 Personal Identity 360
Lynn Staley
23 Science 378
Irma Taavitsainen
24 Social Structures 397
Robert Swanson
25 Style 414
John F. Plummer
26 Texts 428
Tim William Machan
27 Translation 443
Roger Ellis
28 Visualizing 459
Sarah Stanbury
29 Women 480
Nicky Hallett
Index 495

Rezensionen

'This collection of accessible, informative essays providesstudents and teachers with a balance of textual analysis andcultural contexts designed to enhance the understanding ofChaucer's major and minor works . . . Both serious first-timereaders of Chaucer and veterans looking for credible information onmore recent avenues of inquiry will find this a valuable source ofinformation and bibliography.' Choice

"This work, the latest entry in Blackwell's "Companionsto Literature and Culture" series. . . provides an inclusive andscholarly orientation to current theories and interpretation ofChaucer's works." "Each essay. . . places Chaucer's texts intocultural context by examining the medieval point of view, andincludes notes, references, and suggestions for further readings.""The text. . . will serve well as a one-volume introduction for newstudents. It also provides access to original research and newideas sought by graduate students and faculty." LibraryJournal

"Overall, this is useful book. providing an up-to-date survey ofthe state of Chaucer scholarship on a wide range of issues...itwill provoke interesting and educational debates in and out of theclassroom." Reference Reviews

"[This book] is both highly readable and rich in its diversity,a book which any Chaucerian, novice or seasoned, will often pick upsimply for the pleasure of browsing[...] Every student of Chaucer,from undergraduate to emiritus professor, will want to have accessto it." English Studies: A Journal of English Language andLiterature