| Chaucer's Miller's, Reeve's, and Cook's Tales: An Annotated Bibliography 1900-1992 Contributor(s): Burton, T. L. (Author), Greentree, Rosemary (Author) |
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ISBN: 0802008747 ISBN-13: 9780802008749 Publisher: University of Toronto Press OUR PRICE: $116.85 Product Type: Hardcover Published: April 1997 Annotation: This Volume, the Work of a Group of Chaucerians from the University of Adelaide, is the latest in the University of Toronto Press's Chaucer Bibliography series, a series which aims to provide annotated bibliographies for all of Chaucer's works. It summarizes twentieth-century commentary on the three fabliaux of Fragment 1 of The Canterbury Tales: the Miller's, the Reeve's, and the Cook's tales. There are separate sections for editions, translations and modernizations, sources and analogues, lexicographical and linguistic studies, for the tales considered as a group and for each tale considered separately. Annotations are arranged chronologically within each section, facilitating a quick grasp of the changing critical attitudes towards these tales, and showing how earlier neglect (resulting from embarrassment at the naughtiness of their subject matter) has given way, in the second half of the twentieth century, to universal admiration for their astonishing artistry. The general introduction and the separate section introductions comment on and evaluate the varying critical approaches. The detailed index facilitates research on particular characters, themes, or approaches, as well as on the work of individual commentators. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Medieval - Reference | Bibliographies & Indexes |
| Dewey: 016.821 |
| LCCN: 97180935 |
| Series: Chaucer Bibliographies |
| Physical Information: 290 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This volume, the work of a group of Chaucerians from the University of Adelaide, is the latest in the University of Toronto Press's Chaucer Bibliography series, a series which aims to provide annotated bibliographies for all of Chaucer's works. It summarizes twentieth-century commentary on the three fabliaux of Fragment 1 of The Canterbury Tales: the Miller's, the Reeve's, and the Cook's tales. There are separate sections for editions, translations and modernizations, sources and analogues, lexicographical and linguistic studies, for the tales considered as a group and for each tale considered separately. Annotations are arranged chronologically within each section, facilitating a quick grasp of the changing critical attitudes towards these tales, and showing how earlier neglect (resulting from embarrassment at the naughtiness of their subject matter) has given way, in the second half of the twentieth century, to universal admiration for their astonishing artistry. The general introduction and the separate section introductions comment on and evaluate the varying critical approaches. The detailed index facilitates research on particular characters, themes, or approaches, as well as on the work of individual commentators. |
Contributor Bio(s): Burton, T. L.: - T.L. (Tom) Burton is a Reader in English Language and Literature at the University of Adelaide, where he has taught since 1974. He is the founder of the Chaucer Studio, a non-profit organization recording the works of Chaucer and other medieval writers using reconstructed pronunciation for use as teaching aids. He is also the author of Words, Words, Words, a book based on a series of short talks, broadcast on Adelaide's university radio, discussing the evolution of word meanings and usage.Greentree, Rosemary: - Rosemary Greentree is based at the University of Adelaide and is completing an annotated bibliography of Middle English songs and lyrics. She has also recorded for the Chaucer Studio. |