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`Lively and interesting... Complaint and its interaction with its narrative context is explored across the range of Chaucer's oeuvre from the shorter poems to various Tales.' NOTES & QUERIESCounters the view of Chaucer's complaints as exercises in a worn-out French tradition by demonstrating how his effort to fuse lyric and narrative modes led him to experiment with complaint. `His analyses give new perspectives on several of Chaucer's works - an intelligent, original and profitable view.'STUDIES IN THE AGE OF CHAUCER

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`His analyses give new perspectives on several of Chaucer's works...an intelligent, original and profitable view.' * STUDIES IN THE AGE OF CHAUCER *

Chaucer Complaint and Narrative

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      Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 05/10/1988
      ISBN13: 9780859912778, 978-0859912778
      ISBN10: 0859912779
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      Book Synopsis
      `Lively and interesting... Complaint and its interaction with its narrative context is explored across the range of Chaucer's oeuvre from the shorter poems to various Tales.' NOTES & QUERIESCounters the view of Chaucer's complaints as exercises in a worn-out French tradition by demonstrating how his effort to fuse lyric and narrative modes led him to experiment with complaint. `His analyses give new perspectives on several of Chaucer's works - an intelligent, original and profitable view.'STUDIES IN THE AGE OF CHAUCER

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      `His analyses give new perspectives on several of Chaucer's works...an intelligent, original and profitable view.' * STUDIES IN THE AGE OF CHAUCER *

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