Engaging with Chaucer : : Practice, Authority, Reading / / ed. by C.W.R.D. Moseley.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2020
• MitwirkendeR: Cooper, Helen,; Costa, Alex da,; Fryer-Bovair, Simone,; Fyler, John M.,; Meecham-Jones, Simon,; Moseley, C.W.R.D.,; Putter, Ad,; Quinn, William A.,; Sobecki, Sebastian,; Tasioulas, Jacqueline,; Windeatt, Barry,
• HerausgeberIn: Moseley, C.W.R.D.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (226 p.)

Why do we still read and discuss Chaucer? The answer may be simple: he is fun, and he challenges our intelligence and questions our certainties. This collected volume represents an homage to a toweringly great poet, as well as an acknowledgement of the intellectual excitement, challenges, and pleasu...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction ‘The craft so long to lerne…’
• Chapter 1 ‘And gret wel Chaucer whan ye mete’ Chaucer’s Earliest Readers, Addressees and Audiences
• Chapter 2 Unhap, Misadventure, Infortune Chaucer’s Vocabulary of Mischance
• Chapter 3 Chaucer’s Tears
• Chapter 4 In Appreciation of Metrical Abnormality. Headless Lines and Initial Inversion in Chaucer
• Chapter 5 Blanche, Two Chaucers and the Stanley Family Rethinking the Reception of The Book of the Duchess
• Chapter 6 ‘Tu Numeris Elementa Ligas’ The Consolation of Nature’s Numbers in Parlement of Foulys
• Chapter 7 Troilus and Criseyde and the ‘Parfit Blisse of Love’
• Chapter 8 Hateful Contraries in ‘The Merchant’s Tale’
• Chapter 9 String Theory and ‘The Man of Law’s Tale’ Where Is Constancy?
• Chapter 10 The Pardoner’s Passing and How It Matters Gender, Relics and Speech Acts
• Chapter 11 ‘Double Sorrow’ The Complexity of Complaint in Chaucer’s Anelida and Arcite and Henryson’s Testament of Cresseid
• Index