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

Mobility and Identity in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

Sarah Breckenridge Wright

• Hardcover | Engels | Chaucer Studies | nr. 46
• The movement of the pilgrims in the Tales explored both practically and metaphorically, showing it to be an expression of identity. The Canterbury Tal... 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

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

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

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

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

England and Bohemia in the Age of Chaucer

• Hardcover | Engels | Chaucer Studies | nr. 49
• New essays examining Bohemia as a key European context for understanding Chaucer's poetry. Chaucer never went to Bohemia but Bohemia came to him when,... Lees meer

Ethics and Exemplary Narrative in Chaucer and Gower

J Allan Mitchell

• Hardcover | Engels | Chaucer Studies | nr. 33
• A lively defence of the ethics of exemplary narrative, and a detailed account of its forms and functioning in the works of Geoffrey Chaucer and John G... Lees meer

Chaucer's Decameron and the Origin of the Canterbury Tales

Frederick M Biggs

• Hardcover | 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

Chaucer's Book of the Duchess

• Hardcover | Engels | Chaucer Studies | nr. 45
• First entire collection centred on Chaucer's Book of the Duchess, making a compelling case for its importance and value. The Book of the Duchess, Chau... 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 and the City

• Hardcover | Engels | Chaucer Studies | nr. 37
• Essays exploring Chaucer's identity as a London poet and the urban context for his writings. Literature of the city and the city in literature are top... Lees meer

Chaucer and Fame

• Hardcover | Engels | Chaucer Studies | nr. 43
• The questions of fame and reputation are central to Chaucer's writings; the essays here discuss their various treatments and manifestations. Fama, or ... 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

New Readings of Chaucer's Poetry

• Hardcover | Engels | Chaucer Studies | nr. 31
• A wide range of new scholarship on Chaucer's poetry. This collection of essays makes available a wide range of new scholarship on Chaucer's poetry. Op... Lees meer

Chaucer's Approach to Gender in the Canterbury Tales

Anne Laskaya

• Hardcover | Engels | Chaucer Studies | nr. 23
• An original feminist approach, through a study of Chaucer's treatment of masculinity, to the Canterbury Tales This volume presents a feminist approach... 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