Chaucer's Decameron and the Origin of the Canterbury Tales

Frederick M Biggs

• Paperback | Engels | Chaucer Studies | nr. 44
• A major and original contribution to the debate as to Chaucer's use and knowledge of Boccaccio, finding a new source for the "Shipman's Tale". A possi... Lees meer

Eighteenth-Century Modernizations from the Canterbury Tales

• Hardcover | Engels | Chaucer Studies | nr. 16
• This collection of 32 modernised versions of The Canterbury Tales which appeared in the 18th century offers basic material for studying the history of... Lees meer

Chaucer and Costume

Laura F Hodges

• Hardcover | Engels | Chaucer Studies | nr. 26
• Literary analysis of the meanings inherent in the costumes of Chaucer's secular pilgrims, and his methods of characterisation through costume. Clothin... Lees meer

Chaucer's Dream Poetry: Sources and Analogues

• Hardcover | Engels | Chaucer Studies | nr. 7
• This volume makes available in translation the texts that lie behind Chaucer's dream poems - The Book of the Duchess, The Parliament of Fowls, The Hou... Lees meer

Images of Kingship in Chaucer and His Ricardian Contemporaries

Samantha J Rayner

• Hardcover | Engels | Chaucer Studies | nr. 39
• The concept of kingship was a major preoccupation for the Ricardian poets, as this full treatment shows. The idea of kingship forms a recurrent theme ... Lees meer

Introduction to Chaucerian English

Arthur O Sandved

• Hardcover | Engels | Chaucer Studies | nr. 11
• There is fairly general agreement that the modern reader's appreciation of Chaucer's writings can be enhanced by providing the reader with guides to `... Lees meer

Chaucerian Tragedy

Henry Ansgar Kelly

• Paperback | Engels | Chaucer Studies | nr. 24
• A study of Chaucer's definition of tragedy - with special reference to Troilus -and its lasting influence on English dramatists. This book is concerne... Lees meer

Conquering the Reign of Femeny

Angela Jane Weisl

• Hardcover | Engels | Chaucer Studies | nr. 22
• Close study of Chaucer's most important works shows how he used gender issues to extend the range of romance. The paradox of romance as a genre is tha... Lees meer

Ethics and Exemplary Narrative in Chaucer and Gower

J Allan Mitchell

• Hardcover | Engels | Chaucer Studies | nr. 33
• Why do medieval writers routinely make use of exemplary rhetoric? How does it work, and what are its ethical and poetical values? And if Chaucer and G... Lees meer

Chaucer: Complaint and Narrative

W a Davenport

• Hardcover | Engels | Chaucer Studies | nr. 14
• `Lively and interesting... Complaint and its interaction with its narrative context is explored across the range of Chaucer's oeuvre from the shorter ... Lees meer

Chaucer's Prayers

Megan E Murton

• Hardcover | Engels | Chaucer Studies | nr. 47
• A close examination of the prayers in Chaucer's poetry sheds significant new light on his poetic practice. In a culture as steeped in communal, script... Lees meer

Chaucer's Decameron and the Origin of the Canterbury Tales

Frederick M Biggs

• Hardcover | Engels | Chaucer Studies | nr. 44
• A possible direct link between the two greatest literary collections of the fourteenth century, Boccaccio's Decameron and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, ... Lees meer

Essays on Troilus and Criseyde

• Hardcover | Engels | Chaucer Studies | nr. 3
• `Each essay opens up new directions without ignoring past critical trends...an important guide for new approaches to the text and meaning of Troilus a... Lees meer

Chaucer on Love, Knowledge and Sight

Norman Klassen

• Hardcover | Engels | Chaucer Studies | nr. 21
• Medieval natural philosophy illuminates Chaucer's use of the motif of sight and the relationship between love and knowledge. In this study, Norman Kla... Lees meer

Chaucer & Pagan Antiquity

Alastair J Alastair J Minnis

• Hardcover | Engels | Chaucer Studies | nr. 8
• Professor Minnis argues that the paganism in Troilus and Criseyde and The Knight's Taleis not simply a backdrop but must be central to our understandi... Lees meer

Chaucer and Clothing

Laura F Hodges

• Hardcover | Engels | Chaucer Studies | nr. 34
• A detailed discussion of the meaning and significance of the terms used to describe the clothing of Chaucer's religious and academic pilgrims. Religio... Lees meer

Masculinities in Chaucer

• Hardcover | Engels | Chaucer Studies | nr. 25
• Representations of masculinity in Chaucer's works examined through modern critical theory. How does Chaucer portray the various male pilgrims in the C... Lees meer

Chaucer's Language and the Philosophers Tradition

J a Burnley

• Hardcover | Engels | Chaucer Studies | nr. 2
• This book is designed to explore the various kinds of association found in Chaucer's lexical usage, and so to alert the reader to the wider implicatio... Lees meer

Chaucer's Approach to Gender in the Canterbury Tales

Anne Laskaya

• Hardcover | Engels | Chaucer Studies | nr. 23
• This volume presents a feminist approach to the 'Canterbury Tales', investigating the ways in which the tensions and contradictions found within the b... Lees meer

Chaucer and the Early Writings of Boccaccio

David Wallace

• Hardcover | Engels | Chaucer Studies | nr. 12
• David Wallace's examination of the aims and literary affiliations of Boccaccio's early writings provides an indispensable preface to and context for a... Lees meer

The Manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales

Charles A Owen Jr

• Hardcover | Engels | Chaucer Studies | nr. 17
• Owen investigates what the manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales reveal about the way they came into being. [see revs] This study of the manuscripts of ... Lees meer

Sources and Analogues of the Canterbury Tales: Vol. II [Pb]

• Paperback | Engels | Chaucer Studies | nr. 35
• Long-awaited companion to the highly acclaimed first volume. The publication of this volume completes the new edition of the sources and major analogu... Lees meer

Chaucer's Philosophical Visions

Kathryn L Lynch

• Hardcover | Engels | Chaucer Studies | nr. 27
• 'Chaucer's Philosophical Visions' dramatically extends our sense of the fourteenth-century poet's philosophical interests and learning. Arguing that C... Lees meer

Chaucer and the Imaginary World of Fame

Piero Boitani

• Hardcover | Engels | Chaucer Studies | nr. 10
• is one of Chaucer's most intellectually challenging poems, drawing on diverse traditions such as dream poetry and mythology, but unified by the centra... Lees meer