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008			140902s2014 nyua b 001 0 eng
010			_a 2014034913
020			_a9781107064867 (hardback)
020			_a9781107699908 (paperback)
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050	0	0	_aPR1924 _b.M466 2014
082	0	0	_a821.1 MIN-A
100	1		_aMinnis, Alastair
245	1	4	_aThe Cambridge Introduction to Chaucer / _cAlastair Minnis
260			_aIndia _bCambridge University Press _c2014
300			_a167 p.
365			_aGBP _b13.00.
490	0		_aCambridge introductions to literature
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	8		_aMachine generated contents note: 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.
520			_a"Geoffrey Chaucer is the best-known and most widely read of all medieval British writers, famous for his scurrilous humour and biting satire against the vices and absurdities of his age. Yet he was also a poet of passionate love, sensitive to issues of gender and sexual difference, fascinated by the ideological differences between the pagan past and the Christian present, and a man of science, knowledgeable in astronomy, astrology and alchemy. This concise book is an ideal starting point for study of all his major poems, particularly The Canterbury Tales, to which two chapters are devoted. It offers close readings of individual texts, presenting various possibilities for interpretation, and includes discussion of Chaucer's life, career, historical context and literary influences. An account of the various ways in which he has been understood over the centuries leads into an up-to-date, annotated guide to further reading"--
600	1	0	_aChaucer, Geoffrey, _d-1400 _xCriticism and interpretation.
650		7	_aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. _2bisacsh
856	4	2	_3Cover image _uhttp://assets.cambridge.org/97811070/64867/cover/9781107064867.jpg
955			_bxk14 2014-09-02 _ixk14 2014-09-02 ONIX _axn11 2014-12-01 1 copy rec'd., to CIP ver.
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