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OverviewThis volume contains ten essays, principally on Chaucer, but also on other English writers of the period such as John Gower, Ranulph Higden and Thomas Hoccleve. The Chaucerian focus includes the dream visions and Troilus and Criseyde as well as the Canterbury Tales. Reading Chaucer is divided into three sections, on Borderlands, Interiors and After-Images. The essays are representative of methods and approaches to Chaucer that are central to current scholarship: textual criticism, interdisciplinarity, manuscript study, cultural context, iconography, close reading and historicism. The book provides a coherent and authoritative introduction to some of the key frameworks – literary, political, social, scientific, aesthetic and religious – within which Chaucer’s works are now read, while covering the full range of his writings and the defining genres of his creative moment, including the chronicle, romance, fabliau and petition. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Peter BrownPublisher: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Imprint: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Edition: New edition Weight: 0.390kg ISBN: 9783034309332ISBN 10: 3034309333 Pages: 260 Publication Date: 25 October 2013 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationPeter Brown is Professor of Medieval English Literature at the University of Kent in Canterbury. He has been reading Chaucer and contextual materials throughout his professional life and has authored or edited a number of books on Chaucer and medieval literature, including The Age of Saturn (1991; with the medieval historian Andrew Butcher), Chaucer at Work (1994), Reading Dreams (1999), Companion to Chaucer (2000), Companion to Medieval Literature and Culture (2007), Chaucer and the Making of Optical Space (2007) and Geoffrey Chaucer (2011). He has also taught at the University of Exeter, the University of Connecticut and the University of California, Los Angeles. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |