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The Cambridge introduction to Chaucer /
"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 b...
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Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press,
2014.
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| Serie: | Cambridge introductions to literature.
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| Accesso online: | https://books.google.co.in/books?id=a9qTBAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=The+Cambridge+introduction+to+chaucer&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiqrtXKlO_VAhUE6WMKHYWsAHIQ6AEIKjAB#v=onepage&q=The%20Cambridge%20introduction%20to%20chaucer&f=false |
Sommario:
- Machine 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.