Hirsh Chaucer and the Canterbury Tales

A Short Introduction
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-77693-3
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 192 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Introductions to Literature

This concise and lively survey introduces students with no priorknowledge to Chaucer, and particularly to The CanterburyTales. Provides essential facts about Chaucer, as well as aframework for thinking about his poetry. Encourages an engagedreading of The Canterbury Tales. Introduces students to thehistorical and religious background needed to understand thecontexts in which Chaucer wrote.
* * Provides essential facts about Chaucer, as well as a frameworkfor thinking about his poetry.
* Encourages an engaged reading of The Canterbury Tales.
* Introduces students to the historical and religious backgroundneeded to understand the contexts in which Chaucer wrote.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hirsh, John C.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Illustrations.
Preface.
Who Was Geoffrey Chaucer?.
Gender and Religion, Race and Class.
Others.
Love.
God.
Visions of Chaucer.
Death.
Conclusion.
Which Tale Was That? A Summary of theCanterbury Tales.
Notes.
Select Bibliography.
Index.
List of Authors, Compilers, Editors, and Translators Referred toin the Select Bibliography.

Über Autor(innen)

John C. Hirsh is Professor of English at Georgetown University in Washington D.C. His previous publications include The Boundaries of Faith: The Development and Transmission of Medieval Spirituality (1996), The Revelations of Margery Kempe: Paramystical Practices in Late Medieval England (1989) and Hope Emily Allen: Medieval Scholarship and Feminism (1988). He has also edited 'Barlam and Iosaphat' (1986) for the Early English Text Society.