Screen LibraryThe Cambridge companion to 'The Canterbury tales' /
"What do we mean when we talk about literary form? The word 'form' was as multivalent in the later medieval era as it is in our own. Chaucer's great Italian predecessor, Dante, wrote explicitly about form, dividing it into two principal areas, the forma tractatus and the forma tr...
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Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, United Kingdom : |
| Publication Dates: | 2020. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge companions to literature
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"What do we mean when we talk about literary form? The word 'form' was as multivalent in the later medieval era as it is in our own. Chaucer's great Italian predecessor, Dante, wrote explicitly about form, dividing it into two principal areas, the forma tractatus and the forma tractandi (the form of the treatise and the form of the treatment or, broadly speaking, genre/verse form and style/tone)"-- |
| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Carrier Form: | xvii, 270 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 24 cm. |
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9781107181007 1107181003 9781316632437 1316632431 |
| Index Number: | PR1874 |
| CLC: | I561.072 |
| Call Number: | I561.072/C178-8 |
| Contents: |
The form of the Canterbury Tales / Manuscripts, scribes, circulation / The General Prologue / The Knight's Tale and the estrangements of form / The Miller's Tale and the art of solaas / The Man of Law's Tale / The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale / The Friar's Tale and The Summoner's Tale in word and deed / Griselda and the problem of the human in The Clerk's Tale / The Franklin's symptomatic sursanure / The pardoner and his tale / The Prioress's Tale / The Nun's Priest's Tale / Moral Chaucer / Chaucer's sense of an ending / Reading Chaucer : easier than you think? / Scholarship or distraction? New forums for talking about Chaucer / Talking about Chaucer with school teachers / Who will pay? / |