Troilus and Criseyde

Informationen zum Autor Stephen Barney is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of Studies in ’Troilus’: Chaucer’s Text, Meter, and Diction , Allegories in History , Allegories of Love and Word Hoard: An Introduction to the Old English Vocabulary . He is the editor of Chaucer’s ’Troilus’: Essays in Criticism and Annotation and Its Texts . His edited text of Troilus and Criseyde appears in The Riverside Chaucer . Klappentext The editor's lucid introduction, marginal glosses, and explanatory annotations make Troilus and Criseyde easily accessible to students with no prior knowledge of Chaucer or Middle English. Also included is Robert Henryson's Testament of Cresseid, the poignant "sequel" to Troilus and Criseyde from fifteenth-century Scotland. "Criticism" includes ten essays by a diverse group of distinguished Chaucerians, among them C. S. Lewis, E. Talbot Donaldson, Karla Taylor, Lee Patterson, and Jill Mann, that illuminate the major scholarly issues raised by this complex and challenging poem. A Glossary and Selected Bibliography are also included Zusammenfassung This Norton Critical Edition of Chaucer’s masterpiece is based on Stephen Barney’s acclaimed text and is accompanied by a translation of its major source, Boccaccio’s Filostrato.

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Barney, Stephen A Barney, Geoffrey Chaucer
• Assisted by: Stephen Barney (Editor), Stephen A. Barney (Editor)
• Publisher: Norton W W Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.05.2006
• EAN: 9780393927559
• ISBN: 978-0-393-92755-9
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 235 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Norton Critical Editions; Norton Critical Editions
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Literaturwissenschaft, Englisch, Lyrik, Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, Einzelne Dichter, POETRY / General, Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Gedicht / Lyrik, England / Sprache, POETRY / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Poetry by individual poets, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets