Oxford Guides to Chaucer: The Shorter Poems

ISBN-13: 9780198111931 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 592 str.

Alastair J. Minnis; A. J. Minnis; V. J. Scattergood

Opis

This third volume in the popular Oxford Guides to Chaucer series offers a much needed introduction to Chaucer's shorter poems. The introductory chapters on the social and cultural contexts of the shorter poems are supplemented by a guide to the genre they mostly exemplify--the love-vision form. The volume then provides in-depth, individual chapters on the Book of the Duchess, the House of Fame, the Parliament of Fowls, the Legend of Good Women, and the short poems, and includes an extensive appendix on Chaucer's language. Combining the best of old and new critical methods and research, this lively, provocative, and comprehensive book will make accessible a crucial portion of Chaucer's work for students and general readers.

Recenzje

An important volume that most libraries and many individual Chaucerians will want to purchase ... a delightful tribute to Alastair Minnis's long devotion to medieval studies.

O autorze

Publications include (with A. B. Scott) Medieval Literary Theory and Criticism c.1100-c.1375 (OUP, 1988 pb 1991). He is also under contract with OUP for a study of Chaucer's Preachers. Minnis is the General Editor of the Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, published by CUP.