Oxford Guides to Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales

ISBN-13: 9780198711551 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 456 str.

Helen Cooper

Opis

Since its first publication in 1989, Helen Cooper's guide to The Canterbury Tales has established itself as the standard work on the poem. This second edition continues to offer the most comprehensive scrutiny of the Tales both as a whole and individually. In addition, Cooper incorporates the most significant recent scholarship and criticism, reflecting current research in the areas of Chaucer's historical and social context and developments in the interpretation of Chaucer's presentation of women.

Recenzje

'a sure-footed guide through very difficult scholarly terrain ... Dr Cooper's volume sets a dauntingly high standard for the execution of the aims of the series. Indeed, it is so good that I often feel that it should be kept out of the hands of my students since it makes otiose much of what I might say to them and says a great deal that it had never occurred to me to say. It is a well written and reliable guide through a mass of material that largely transcends the limitations of its form to offer critical analysis of lasting value.' A.S.G. Edwards, University of Victoria, Archiv für das Stadium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen, 229. Band 144. Hargang 1. Halbjahresband 1992

Spis treści

Abbreviations; Introduction; Bibliographical note; The Canterbury Tales : Date; Text; Genre; Sources and analogues; Structure; Themes; Style; Language; Rhetoric, and Prosody