| Chaucer and the Making of English Poetry Volume II: The Art of Narrative Contributor(s): Kean, P. M. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0367357348 ISBN-13: 9780367357344 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $138.60 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Medieval - Literary Criticism | Reference |
| Series: Routledge Library Editions: Chaucer |
| Physical Information: 282 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Originally published in 1972. This important work of Chaucerian scholarship deals with two aspects of the poet and his work - his individual achievement and his place in history - and demonstrates that in both these senses Chaucer is a maker of English poetry. The author explores Chaucer's narrative art. The book includes an examination of the puzzling question of narrative structure in the Canterbury Tales and of the nature of Chaucerian comedy in these works. The author surveys the major themes of the poems: Fortune and free will, marriage, and the nobleness of man. In the final chapter she treats of the meaning of Chaucer's art for his successors. Throughout the work, Miss Kean deals extensively with the sources which Chaucer used for the writing of his poems, in a way which directs light on the more difficult aspects of his art. |
