The Cambridge Introduction to Chaucer / Alastair Minnis.
The Cambridge Introduction to Chaucer / Alastair Minnis.
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New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
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G 2015/829
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English
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Physical content
ix, 167 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Introduction: life and historical contexts -- 1. Love and lore: the shorter poems -- 2. Fictions of antiquity: Troilus and Criseyde and The Legend of Good Women -- 3. The Canterbury Tales, I: war, love, laughter -- 4. The Canterbury Tales, II: experience and authority -- Afterword -- Guide to furthe...
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New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
2014.
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"Geoffrey Chaucer is the best-known and most widely read of all medieval British writers, famous for his scurrilous humour and biting satire against the vices and absurdities of his age. Yet he was also a poet of passionate love, sensitive to issues of gender and sexual difference, fascinated by the ideological differences between the pagan past an...
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The Cambridge Introduction to Chaucer / Alastair Minnis.
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Cambridge introductions to literature
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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ebook version 9781316121542.
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G 2015/829
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74VKOQwrl0zy
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ISBN
1107699908 (paperback)
9781107064867 (hardback)
1107064864 (hardback)
9781107699908 (paperback)
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821/.1
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991022597019702626
