Alastair Minnis

The Cambridge Introduction to Chaucer

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A lively, accessible and wide-ranging introduction to the life and work of the fourteenth-century poet Geoffrey Chaucer.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 177
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 403g
• ISBN-13: 9781107064867
• ISBN-10: 1107064864
• Artikelnr.: 41610618

Autorenporträt

Alastair Minnis is the Douglas Tracy Smith Professor of English at Yale University, President of the New Chaucer Society (2012¿14), and a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America. His most recent books are Fallible Authors: Chaucer's Pardoner and Wife of Bath (2007) and Translations of Authority in Medieval English Literature: Valuing the Vernacular (Cambridge University Press, 2009).

Inhaltsangabe

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.