Geoffrey Chaucer
By: [edited by] Harold Bloom.
Contributors: Bloom, Harold.
Edition: Updated ed.
Series: Bloom's modern critical views
Publisher: Bloom's Literary Criticism
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9780791094389
Subjects: Chaucer, Geoffrey, -- d. 1400 -- Criticism and interpretation; Civilization, Medieval, in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The ending of "Troilus" / E. Talbot Donaldson; title: The prologue to The legend of good women / Robert Worth Frank, Jr; title: Epic theater : the comedy and the Canterbury tales (the knight and the miller) / Richard Neuse; title: The riddle of sovereignty / Manuel Aguirre; title: New armor for the Amazons : the wife of Bath and a genealogy of Ovidianism / Michael A. Calabrese; title: Chaucer's Second nun's tale and the apocalyptic imagination / Eileen Jankowski; title: Reframing the violence of the father : reverse Oedipal fantasies in Chaucer's Clerk's, Man of law's, and Prioress's tales / Barrie Ruth Straus; title: Chaucer's Shipman's tale, Boccaccio, and the "civilizing" of fabliau / John Finlayson; title: Time as rhetorical topos in Chaucer's poetry / Martin Camargo; title: Countervailing aesthetic of joy in Troilus and Criseyde / John M. Hill.