The Cambridge Introduction to Chaucer /

The Cambridge Introduction to Chaucer /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Minnis, A. J. (Alastair J.) (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Series:Cambridge introductions to literature.
Subjects:
Chaucer, Geoffrey, > -1400 > Criticism and interpretation.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Table of 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 further reading
  • Index.