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Description for Chaucer
Hardback. Presents a comprehensive selection of the key views of Chaucer in the twentieth century. This volume addresses the growth of Chaucer criticism over the centuries. It reflects the three major divisions of Chaucer's writing: "The Dream Vision" poetry, "Troilus and Criseyde", and "The Canterbury Tales". Editor(s): Saunders, Corinne. Series: Blackwell Guides to Criticism. Num Pages: 368 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 161 x 32. Weight in Grams: 656.
This comprehensive collection of the major critical views of Chaucer's works over time engages students with the entire critical history.
- Introduces students to the critical discourse on Chaucer's works from a historical perspective.
- Encourages students to make links between past and present criticism.
- Foregrounds those modern approaches that are genuinely productive.
- Avoids a formulaic approach through lively editorial commentary and judicious selection of texts.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
Series
Blackwell Guides to Criticism
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United States
ISBN
9780631217114
SKU
V9780631217114
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99-50
About Saunders
Corinne Saunders is Lecturer at the University of Durham. Her previous publications include Forest of Medieval Romance (1993) and Rape and Ravishment in the Literature of Medieval England (2001).
Reviews for Chaucer
"The acuteness of Corinne Saunders's analyses makes this volume considerably more than a collection of critical extracts; it manages to be at once illuminating about Chaucer, Chaucerian criticism, and twentieth-century criticism in general, its range, its concerns, its disagreements, and its radical insights." Medium Aevum LXXI/2002 "Saunders's Chaucer is a thought-inspiring and highly recommended coursebook to use beside ... Read more