Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-195) and index.
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Part I: Life and contexts -- Chaucer's biography -- Social, literary and historical contexts -- Part II: Work -- Short verse -- The dream poems -- Non-fiction prose -- Troilus and Criseyde -- Collection of Tales: The legend of good women -- Collection of tales: The Canterbury tales -- Part III: Criticism -- Biography -- Text, manuscripts, editing -- Chaucer's language -- Sources, literary background, rhetoric and poetics -- Narrators, irony and satire -- Historicism, old and new -- Politics and ideology -- Feminism and gender -- Imitation, modernisation, allusion.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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This volume is part of a series of comprehensive, user-friendly introductions which offer basic information in an author's life, contexts and works.
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Chaucer, Geoffrey,-1400
Chaucer, Geoffrey,-1400-- Criticism and interpretation.
Chaucer, Geoffrey,1340?-1400
Chaucer, Geoffrey,1340?-1400-- Criticism and interpretation.
Chaucer, Geoffrey, 1343-1400
Chaucer, Geoffrey,(1340?-1400)-- Critique et interprétation.