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Book SynopsisA wide range of new scholarship on Chaucer's poetry.This collection of essays makes available a wide range of new scholarship on Chaucer's poetry. Opening essays address the issues of "Chaucerian representation" and "Chaucerian poetics", arguing for the multiplicity and complexityof what Chaucer "represents" and for the importance of his dual Anglo-French background in enabling him to articulate that complexity. Chaucer's use of Ovidian and Ciceronian sources and ideas is examined, and his pursuit of simplicity and suspicion of "delicacy"; the potent issues of sexuality and spirituality, and money and death (with Chaucer's own ending and his thoughts on last things) complete the collection. Contributors: DEREK BREWER, HELEN COOPER, PAUL DOWER, JOHN V. FLEMING, JOHN HILL, TRAUGOTT LAWLER, CELIA LEWIS, R. BARTON PALMER, WILLIAM PROVOST, JOHN PLUMMER, WILLIAM ROGERS.
Trade ReviewA fascinating snapshot of contemporary scholarship. * MEDIUM AEVUM *
The collection is worth reading and offers some papers that constitute an advancement in Chaucer studies. * ANGLIA *
Table of ContentsIntroduction - Derek S Brewer I: Chaucerian Representation. II: Chaucerian Poetics - Helen Cooper The Best Line in Ovid and the Worst - John V. Fleming Delicacy vs. Truth: Defining Moral Heroism in the Canterbury Tales - Traugott Lawler Chaucer's Endings - William Provost 'Beth fructuous and that in litel space' The Engendering of Harry Bailly - John Plummer Thinking about Money in Chaucer's Shipman's Tale [with Paul Dower] - William E Rogers Thinking about Money in Chaucer's Shipman's Tale [with William E. Rogers] - Paul Dower Framing Fiction with Death: Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and the Plague - Celia M Lewis Aristocratic Friendship in Troilus and Criseyde: Pandarus, Courtly Love and Ciceronian Brotherhood in Troy - John M Hill Chaucer's Legend of Good Women: The Narrator's Tale - R Barton Palmer
