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Michael Hoy

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The purpose of this book is to provide the reader with access to many different strange and unusual weapons. Well over one hundred different weapons are listed, described, and illustrated, with the complete names and addresses of dealers given for ach weapons. Also included are sources for books, periodicals, plans, organizations, and other information on exotic weapons. Contents How to use this book Index of weapons listed General access section Specific access section Air guns Arrow slings Black powder guns Blowguns Body armor Bolas Bondage and restrainng devices Boomerangs Canes and walking sticks Capture net Crossbows Defendo ring Exploding and armour piercing ammo Flame guns Garrotes Knives, swords, and other edged and pointed weapons Knucks, saps and other impact weapons Laser amiming systems Light weapons Machine guns Medieval, ancient & old time weapons Night vision devices Nuclear weapons Oriental weapons Primitive and stone age weapons Repulse Robots shockers Silencers Slingshots Smoke bombs Sonic weapons Stun guns Switchblades and other 'One-hand' knives Talon Tasers Tear gas weapons Tomahawks Tranquilizer guns Underwater weapons Whips Improvised, miscellaneous, and things which aren't really 'weapons,' but... Directory of dealers… (más)
 
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uncleflannery | May 16, 2020 |
All right, what have you done with the Wife of Bath?

This is an interesting concept: Taking the more "important" of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and trying to look at them in depth. But the implementation is -- odd. The omission of The Wife of Bath's Tale is an obvious example.

Obvious in more ways than one. The authors seem rather obsessed with certain ideas, such as the idea of "Courtly Love" that was so popular in French romances -- French romances, note, not English; C. S. Lewis was convinced that Courtly Love was everywhere in Chaucer, but many others are not. Another of the important subjects of the book is the "marriage group" of tales -- another hypothetical idea, derived from G. L. Kittredge. But the Wife of Bath's Tale opens the "marriage group," and yet her tale is not studied even though it is the key to the whole idea.

Then, too, a problem with studying the individual tales rather than the Tales is that it loses the effects created by Chaucer's links. Sometimes these are studied, but sometimes they aren't. The Tales were never completed, but it was closer to complete than you would know from Hoy and Stevens.

This is not to be entirely critical. There are a lot of good insights in this book. What it says is usually good. It's just that, by putting most of its attention on a few tales, the book leaves out a great deal that seems to me very important.
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