Chaucer: Complaint and Narrative

ISBN-13: 9780859912778 / Angielski / Twarda / 1988 / 240 str.

W. A. Davenport

Opis

Counters the view of Chaucer's complaints as exercises in a worn-out French tradition by demonstrating how his effort to fuse lyric and narrative modes led him to experiment with complaint. His analyses give new perspectives on several of Chaucer's works -- an intelligent, original and profitable view.'STUDIES IN THE AGE OF CHAUCER