The Romaunt of the Rose

The Romaunt of the Rose

Author: Charles Dahlberg

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 9780806131474

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The Romaunt of the Rose translates in abridged form a long dream vision, part elegant romance, part rollicking satire, written in France during the thirteenth century. The French original, Le Roman de la Rose, had a profound influence on Chaucer, who says he translated the work. From the sixteenth century to the mid-nineteenth, scholars assumed that the Romaunt comprised large fragments of that translation. Subsequent debates have divided the Romaunt into two or three segments, and proffered arguments that Chaucer was responsible for one or more of them, or for none. The current consensus is that he almost certainly wrote the first 1,705 lines. Charles Dahlberg’s edition of the Romaunt provides a full summary of scholarship on the question of authorship as well as other important topics, including a useful survey of the influence of the French poem on Chaucer.


The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer

The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer

Author: Piero Boitani

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2004-01-12

Total Pages: 510

ISBN-13: 1107494648

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The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer is an extensively revised version of the first edition, which has become a classic in the field. This new volume responds to the success of the first edition and to recent debates in Chaucer Studies. Important material has been updated, and new contributions have been commissioned to take into account recent trends in literary theory as well as in studies of Chaucer's works. New chapters cover the literary inheritance traceable in his works to French and Italian sources, his style, as well as new approaches to his work. Other topics covered include the social and literary scene in England in Chaucer's time, and comedy, pathos and romance in the Canterbury Tales. The volume now offers a useful chronology, and the bibliography has been entirely updated to provide an indispensable guide for today's student of Chaucer.


The Summoner's Tale

The Summoner's Tale

Author: Geoffrey Chaucer

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 9780806127446

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Part Seven Once reviled as an example of Chaucer at his most tasteless and omitted from some editions of The Canterbury Tales, this scatological anecdote has over time been accorded genuine admiration, first grudging and finally unabashed. As in The Miller’s Tale, Chaucer has elaborated a simple fart joke into pungent satire against human foibles. Here too, through subtle references to religious lore, Chaucer transforms mere vulgarity into a truly clever jest and, in the opinion of some critics, a serious commentary on important issues. The particular target of the tale’s satire is a friar who is so blinded by greed, hypocrisy, and anger that he cannot see how others perceive him.


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Published: 1928

Total Pages: 634

ISBN-13:

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Provides image and full-text online access to back issues. Consult the online table of contents for specific holdings.


Chaucer's Pardoner's Prologue and Tale

Chaucer's Pardoner's Prologue and Tale

Author: Marilyn Sutton

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2000-01-01

Total Pages: 498

ISBN-13: 0802047440

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The Chaucer Bibliography series aims to provide annotated bibliographies for all of Chaucer's work. This book summarizes 20th-century commentaries on Chaucer's "Pardoner's Prologue" and "Tale."


Feminist Readings in Middle English Literature

Feminist Readings in Middle English Literature

Author: Dr Ruth Evans

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005-08-04

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 1134931816

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This volume, designed with the student reader in mind, is an indispensable blend of key essays in the field with specially commissioned new material by feminist scholars from the UK and the US. It includes a diversity of texts and feminist approaches, a substantial and very illuminating introduction by the editors, and an annotated list of Further Reading, offering preliminary guidance to the reader approaching the topic of gender and medieval literature for the first time. Works and writers covered include: * Chaucer * Margery Kempe * Christine de Pisan * The Katherine group of Saints' Lives * Langland's Piers Plowman * Medieval cycle drama Students of both medieval and feminist literature will find this an essential work for study and reference.


Routledge Library Editions: Chaucer

Routledge Library Editions: Chaucer

Author: Various

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-08-29

Total Pages: 4802

ISBN-13: 1000682536

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Reissuing works originally published between 1964 and 1994, this superb set of books is an array of scholarship on one of the most important authors of the medieval period. Some of these titles are introductory books on Chaucer and his works but others are specifically focused on his humour, or the sources he drew from, or his importance to the development of English poetry, and between them they address all of his works, not only the Canterbury Tales. A good coverage of critical study in the area of medieval poetry that contains interesting fodder for any literature student or academic.