| Chaucer Criticism, Volume 1: The Canterbury Tales Contributor(s): Schoeck, R. J. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0268000360 ISBN-13: 9780268000363 Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press OUR PRICE: $19.80 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 1974 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Medieval - History | Europe - Medieval - Literary Criticism | Medieval |
| Dewey: 821.1 |
| LCCN: 60010279 |
| Physical Information: 0.64" H x 4.33" W x 6.99" (0.49 lbs) 320 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Eighteen varied yet strikingly complementary approaches to The Canterbury Tales challenge the reader to fuller appreciation of Chaucer's art both in its formal aspects and in its larger human implications. Numerous artistic and historical problems are treated in these essays, including the narrative point of view established by Chaucer the pilgrim, the possible architectonic function of The Parson's Tale, the medieval controversy over the friars, the pronouncements of the medieval church on the Jews, and the socio-economic background of the fourteenth century. This anthology is distinct not only because of the excellence of individual selections but also in the fact that the selections, though diverse in origin and approach, together contribute to a unifying view of the Canterbury Tales and to a just evaluation of Chaucer's full stature among the giants of literature. |
Contributor Bio(s): Schoeck, R. J.: - Richard J. Schoeck, Jr., (1920-2008), taught at Cornell University, Notre Dame University, St. Michael's College, the University of Toronto, where he served as chairman of the department of English, the University of Colorado and University of Trier in Germany. He was a visiting lecturer or scholar at Yale, Princeton, the University of Dallas, College of St. Thomas and Corpus Christi College at Oxford University in England. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and was a member of the Royal Historical Society. He was the recipient of four Fulbright scholarships, a Guggenheim scholarship and a Ford scholarship, as well as several Canada Council Fellowships. He authored a two-volume biography, "Erasmus of Europe" and was the author of four volumes of poetry and hundreds of scholarly articles, papers, addresses and a number of edited volumes, including two volumes of literary criticism with Marshall McLuhan. |