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Zusatztext 'a sure-footed guide through very difficult scholarly terrain ... Dr Cooper's volume sets a dauntingly high standard for the execution of the aims of the series. Indeed, it is so good that I often feel that it should be kept out of the hands of my students since it makes otiose much of what I might say to them and says a great deal that it had never occurred to me to say. It is a well written and reliable guide through a mass of material that largely transcends the limitations of its form to offer critical analysis of lasting value.'A.S.G. Edwards, University of Victoria, Archiv für das Stadium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen, 229. Band 144. Hargang 1. Halbjahresband 1992 Informationen zum Autor Helen Cooper is Fellow in English at University College, Oxford. Klappentext This edition incorporates a broader representation of the most significant recent scholarship and criticism, reflecting current research into Chaucer's historical and social context and developments in the interpretation of Chaucer's presentation of women. The book is the most comprehensive single-volume guide to the Tales yet produced, bringing together a wide range of disparate material and providing a readable commentary on all aspects of the work. It combines the comprehensive coverage of a reference book with the coherence of a critical account and, since its first publication in 1989, has established itself as a standard work on the Tales. Zusammenfassung This handbook has been written with the purpose of both summarizing what is known about Chaucer's work, and offering interpretations based on recent advances in both historical knowledge and theoretical understanding. It includes a survey of literary responses to the "Tales" over the centuries. Inhaltsverzeichnis Abbreviations; Introduction; Bibliographical note; The Canterbury Tales : Date; Text; Genre; Sources and analogues; Structure; Themes; Style; Language; Rhetoric, and Prosody...
