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Oxford Guides to Chaucer: Troilus and Criseyde
Oxford Guides to Chaucer: Troilus and Criseyde
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ExcellentThis new edition of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde provides a comprehensive critical guide to the poem, revised in light of recent research and with an updated bibliography. It explores Chaucer's use of sources, the poem's symmetrical structure, style, language, and themes of love, time, mutability, and human free will. The Guide also discusses the poem's problematic ending and offers insights into its early genesis and responses to it from its own times to the present day. Barry Windeatt's contribution is a valuable resource for scholars and students of Chaucer and medieval literature.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 480 pages
Publication date: 31 October 2023
Publisher: Oxford University Press
This new edition of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde has undergone a comprehensive revision, taking into account the latest scholarly and critical research, as well as a fully updated bibliography. It provides a comprehensive account of Chaucer's imaginative deployment of his sources and an extensive exploration of the innovative combination of various generic identities in this narrative poem. The chapters delve into how Chaucer strategically incorporates thematic significance into the poem's symmetrical structure, as well as the diverse range of styles and languages employed, while offering a detailed commentary on the poem's exploration of love within the contexts of time, mutability, and human free will. The Guide also examines the poem as an extended debate about the nature and value of love, exploring how it was conceptualized and experienced as a form of service in pursuit of compassionate reward, quasi-religious devotion, and a potentially fatal illness always holding out hope for a cure. The subjective experiences of the primary protagonists are thoroughly analyzed, as is the poem's problematic ending. In addition to discussions of theme and structure, the Guide offers an account of what the extant manuscripts of Troilus and Criseyde can reveal about the poem's early genesis and provides 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, encompassing a wide range of material and offering a readable commentary on all aspects of the work. By combining the informative substance of a reference book with the coherence of a critical reading, the Guide has established itself
its position as the standard introduction to Troilus and Criseyde since its initial publication in 1992.
Weight: 740g
Dimension: 155 x 234 x 29 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780198823407
Edition number: 2 Revised edition
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