A Concise Companion to Chaucer (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Saunders, Corinne

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This concise companion provides a succinct introduction to Chaucer's major works, the contexts in which he wrote, and to medieval thought more generally.

• Opens with a general introductory section discussing London life and politics, books and authority, manuscripts and readers.
• Subsequent sections focus on Chaucer's major works - the dream visions, Troilus and Criseyde and The Canterbury Tales.
• Essays highlight the key religious, political and intellectual contexts for each major work.
• Also covers important general topics, including: medieval literary genres; dream theory; the Church; gender and sexuality; and reading Chaucer aloud.
• Designed so that each contextual essay can be read alongside one of Chaucer's major works.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781405154628
• Artikelnr.: 38282159