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Cargando... Chaucer: modern essays in criticism (1959)por Edward Wagenknecht
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A collection of critical and analytical essays which examine the enduring works of the English classical poet. Major emphasis is on the Canterbury tales, although considerable attention has been given to the Troilus and to such important characterizations of the Pardoner and the Wife of Bath. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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This is a fairly thin volume, but it includes many extremely important essays in Chaucer criticism. There is a bit of a checklist feeling to the result ("We need one essay on the Pardoner's Tale, one on the Wife's Tale, one on the Knight's Tale..."), which may be a little unbalanced -- but there is obviously a lot to be said for a single book which gives access to the single most influential writing on each of Chaucer's major works.
The material is from the mid-twentieth century and earlier, so some of it is perhaps a little out of date. But there is value in almost all of it, as long as you're willing to accept it as provisional. There are books with newer insights. There are very few with more insights. (