The ten essays selected for this book illuminate the central themes of the most frequently taught Canterbury Tales. These texts are appropriate for undergraduates and general readers and were edited carefully to ensure that references and allusions are explained in footnotes. Theoretical excursus and critical jousting have been either simplified or omitted entirely. At the end of each essay is an annotated list of further readings. The volumes editor is one of the most distinguished active Chaucerian scholars in the world.
The ten essays selected for this book illuminate the central themes of the most frequently taught Canterbury Tales. These texts are appropria...
Chaucer's interest in individuality was strikingly modern. He was aware of the pressures on individuality exerted by the past and by society - by history. Chaucer investigated not just the idea of history but the historical world intimately related to his own political and literary career. This book has shaped the way that Chaucer is read.
Chaucer's interest in individuality was strikingly modern. He was aware of the pressures on individuality exerted by the past and by society - by hist...
Temporal Circumstances provides powerful and detailed interpretations of the most important and challenging of the Canterbury Tales. Well-informed and clearly written, this book will interest both those familiar with Chaucer's masterpiece and readers new to it.
Temporal Circumstances provides powerful and detailed interpretations of the most important and challenging of the Canterbury Tales. Well-informed and...
This volume brings together Lee Patterson's essays published in various venues over the past twenty-seven years. As he observes in his preface, "The one persistent recognition that emerged from writing these otherwise quite disparate essays is that whatever the text . . . and whoever the people . . ., the values at issue remain central to contemporary life."
Two dialectics are at work in this book: that between the past and the present and that between the individual and the social, and both have moral significance. The first two chapters are methodological; the first is on the...
This volume brings together Lee Patterson's essays published in various venues over the past twenty-seven years. As he observes in his preface, "Th...
In June 2011, the founding members of the Greater Portland Scribists published their first anthology, a collection of speculative fiction called Scribings, Vol 1. From the birth of a new world to a high-tech afterlife, these tales explore the emotional range of life. In June 2012, GPS published our second anthology, Scribings Vol 2: Lost Civilizations. Journey into lands long lost with stories that will take you on trips through Ancient Egypt, Viking lands, Atlantis, and even through the fabric of reality itself. Stories from both anthologies are contained within this book, published in...
In June 2011, the founding members of the Greater Portland Scribists published their first anthology, a collection of speculative fiction called Scrib...
