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Pages: 626
Authors: Marion Turner
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-09-22 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

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"More than any other canonical English writer, Geoffrey Chaucer lived and worked at the centre of political life -- yet his poems are anything but conventional.
The Cambridge Introduction to Chaucer
Language: en
Pages: 181
Authors: Alastair Minnis
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-10-16 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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A lively, accessible and wide-ranging introduction to the life and work of the fourteenth-century poet Geoffrey Chaucer.
Rethinking Chaucerian Beasts
Language: en
Pages: 440
Authors: Carolynn Van Dyke
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-11-12 - Publisher: Springer

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Building on recent work in critical animal studies and posthumanism, this book challenges past assumptions that animals were only explored as illustrative of hu
Chaucer and the Child
Language: en
Pages: 288
Authors: Eve Salisbury
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-01-09 - Publisher: Springer

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This book addresses portrayals of children in a wide array of Chaucerian works. Situated within a larger discourse on childhood, Ages of Man theories, and debat
Rival Wisdoms
Language: en
Pages: 155
Authors: Nancy Mason Bradbury
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-01-31 - Publisher: Penn State Press

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In this elegantly written study, Nancy Mason Bradbury situates Chaucer’s last and most ambitious work in the context of a zeal for proverbs that was still ris