Signs and Symbols in Chaucer's Poetry

Presents the work of nine distinguished Chaucer scholars inspired by the work of D.W. Robertson Jr., whose seminal 1969 study Preface to Chaucer has exerted wide influence in medieval studies and sparked new interest in the literary iconography of Middle English.

About the author

John P. Hermann is a professor emeritus of English at the University of Alabama and the author of Allegories of War: Language and Violence in Old English Poetry. John J. Burke Jr. is a professor of English at the University of Alabama and coeditor of The Unknown Samuel Johnson.

Summary

Presents the work of nine distinguished Chaucer scholars inspired by the work of D.W. Robertson Jr., whose seminal 1969 study Preface to Chaucer has exerted wide influence in medieval studies and sparked new interest in the literary iconography of Middle English.

Product details

• Authors: Alabama Symposium on English and America, John J. Burke, John P. Hermann
• Assisted by: John J. Burke (Editor), John J. Burke Jr (Editor), John P. Hermann (Editor), John Patrick Hermann (Editor), John J. Burke Jr. (Editor)
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Behalf of Univ of Alabama
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.11.2015
• EAN: 9780817300425
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-0042-5
• No. of pages: 268
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 231 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 454 g
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies