This is a comprehensive critical guide to Chaucer's Troilus and
Criseyde. This new edition has been comprehensively revised in
light of the latest scholarly and critical research and with a
fully updated bibliography. It includes a full account of Chaucer's
imaginative deployment of his sources, and an extended survey of
this narrative poem's innovative combination of a range of generic
identities. The chapters explain how Chaucer builds thematic
significance into his poem's symmetrical structure, and the poem's
distinctive variety in style and language, as well as a full
commentary on the poem's concerns with love in the contexts of time
and mutability and human free will. The Guide explores the poem as
an extended debate about the nature and value of love, and how love
was conceptualized and experienced as a form of service in quest of
compassionate reward, a quasi-religious devotion, and a potentially
fatal illness always in hope of cure. The subjectivities of the
chief protagonists are fully analysed, as is the poem's problematic
ending. Alongside discussions of theme and structure, there is also
an account of what the extant manuscripts of Troilus and Criseyde
may reveal about the poem's early genesis, and a unique survey of
responses to Troilus from its own times to the present day. Barry
Windeatt's contribution to the series is a comprehensive
single-volume guide to Troilus and Criseyde, bringing together a
wide range of material and providing a readable commentary on all
aspects of the work. Combining the informative substance of a
reference book with the coherence of a critical reading, the Guide
has taken its place as the standard introduction to Troilus and
Criseyde since its first publication in 1992.
General
| Imprint: |
Oxford UniversityPress
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Series: |
Oxford Guides to Chaucer |
| Release date: |
August 2023 |
| Authors: |
Barry Windeatt
(Fellow of Emmanuel College)
|
| Dimensions: |
234 x 156mm (L x W) |
| Pages: |
480 |
| Edition: |
2nd Revised edition |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-19-887881-0 |
| Categories: |
Books
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| LSN: |
0-19-887881-8 |
| Barcode: |
9780198878810 |
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