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Author:   Alastair Minnis (Yale University, Connecticut)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.10cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 22.70cm
Weight:   0.300kg
ISBN:  

9781107699908

ISBN 10:   1107699908
Pages:   178
Publication Date:   13 October 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: life and historical contexts; 1. Love and lore: the shorter poems; 2. Fictions of antiquity: Troilus and Criseyde and The Legend of Good Women; 3. The Canterbury Tales, I: war, love, laughter; 4. The Canterbury Tales, II: experience and authority; Afterword; Guide to further reading.

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'... [this book] conveys a continuing enjoyment and delight in reading and interpreting Chaucer's writings. By mixing the experience of a lengthy teaching career with the authority of his widely admired scholarship, Minnis encourages us to pause, observe, take stock, and share the wonders and conundrums of Chaucer's achievement. We are in the hands of an expert guide who knows his own mind without being overbearing in the manner of Chaucer's overinformed, loquacious eagle in the House of Fame. Instead he is plain-speaking and confident even in acknowledging the limits of his own eagle-eyed interpretations.' Peter Brown, Speculum

Author Information

Alastair Minnis is the Douglas Tracy Smith Professor of English at Yale University, President of the New Chaucer Society (2012–14), and a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America. His most recent books are Fallible Authors: Chaucer's Pardoner and Wife of Bath (2007) and Translations of Authority in Medieval English Literature: Valuing the Vernacular (Cambridge University Press, 2009).

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