{"product_id":"engaging-with-chaucer-practice-authority-reading-9781789209716","title":"Engaging with Chaucer: Practice, Authority,","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tWhy do we still read and discuss Chaucer? The answer may be simple: he is fun, and he challenges our intelligence and questions our certainties. This collected volume represents an homage to a toweringly great poet, as well as an acknowledgement of the intellectual excitement, challenges, and pleasure that readers owe to him as even today, his poems have the capacity to change the way we engage with fundamental questions of knowledge, understanding, and beauty.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction:\u003c\/strong\u003e ‘The craft so long to lerne…’\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eC.W.R.D. Moseley\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/strong\u003e ‘And gret wel Chaucer whan ye mete’: Chaucer’s Earliest Readers, Addresses and Audiences\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eSebastian Sobecki\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/strong\u003e Unhap, Misadventures, Infortune: Chaucer’s \u003cem\u003eVocabulary of Mischance\u003cbr\u003e \tHelen Cooper\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/strong\u003e Chaucer’s Tears\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eBarry Windeatt\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/strong\u003e In Appreciation of Metrical Abnormality: Headless Lines and Initial Inversion in Chaucer\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eAd Putter\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/strong\u003e Blanche, Two Chaucers and the Stanley Family: Rethinking the Reception of \u003cem\u003eThe Book of the Duchess\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eSimon Meecham-Jones\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/strong\u003e ‘Tu Numeris Elementa Ligas’: The Consolation of Nature’s Numbers in \u003cem\u003eParlement of Foulys\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eC.W.R.D. Moseley\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eTroilus and Criseyd\u003c\/em\u003ee and the ‘Parfit Blisse of Love’\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eSimone Fryer-Bovair\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/strong\u003e Hateful Contraries in ‘\u003cem\u003eThe Merchant’s Tale\u003c\/em\u003e’\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eJohn M. Fyler\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 9.\u003c\/strong\u003e String Theory and ‘The Man of Law’s Tale’: Where is Constancy?\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eWilliam A. Quinn\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 10.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Pardoner’s Passing and How It Matters: Gender, Relics and Speech Acts\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eAlex da Costa\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 11.\u003c\/strong\u003e ‘Double Sorrow’: The Complexity of Compaint in Chaucer’s \u003cem\u003eAnelida and Arcite\u003c\/em\u003e and Henryson’s \u003cem\u003eTestament of Cresseid\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eJackie Tasioulas\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042568667479,"sku":"9781789209716","price":23.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781789209716.jpg?v=1750954677","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/engaging-with-chaucer-practice-authority-reading-9781789209716","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}