George Kane

Chaucer and Langland

Historical and Textual Approaches

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Produktbeschreibung

Professor Kane is widely regarded as the leading middle English textual and literary scholar of our time and this collection of his essays will be widely welcomed. They focus largely upon the texts of Chaucer and Langland and demonstrate in an exemplary way how critical issues can arise from meticulous textual study.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. November 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 643g
• ISBN-13: 9781472508430
• ISBN-10: 1472508432
• Artikelnr.: 39076814

Autorenporträt

George Kane was Emeritus Professor of English Language and Medieval Literature in the University of London, where he taught for thirty years. He was twice awarded the Sir Israel Gollancz Memorial Prize of the British Academy (in 1963 and 1999).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Preface
1 The Autobiographical Fallacy in Chaucer and Langland Studies (1965)
2 Chaucer and the Idea of a Poet (1976)
3 Chaucer, Love Poetry and Romantic Love (1978)
4 The Liberating Truth: the Concept of Integrity in Chaucer's Writings
(1979)
5 Philosophical Chaucer (1982)
6 Music Neither Unpleasant Nor Monotonous (1981)
7 Poetry and Lexicography in the Translation of Piers Plowman (1978)
8 The Perplexities of William Langland (1974)
9 Langland and Chaucer: an Obligatory Conjunction (1980)
10 Langland and Chaucer II (1980)
11 Conjectural Emendation (1966)
12 The Text of The Legend of Good Women in CUL MS Gg. 4.27 (1983)
13 John M. Manly (1865-1940) and Edith Rickert (1871-1938) (1984)
14 'Good' and 'Bad' Manuscripts: Texts and Critics (1986)
15 Criticism, Solecism: Does it Matter? (1967)
16 Outstanding Problems of Middle English Scholarship (1977)
Notes
Index