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The Canterbury Tales in Modern Verseby Geoffrey Chaucer; Joseph Glaser
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2005; US$ 8.95Readers of this witty and fluent new translation of The Canterbury Tales should find themselves turning page after page: by recasting Chaucer's ten-syllable couplets into eight-syllable lines, Joseph Glaser achieves a lighter, more rapid cadence than other translators, a four-beat rhythm well-established in the English poetic tradition up to Chaucer's time. Glaser's shortened lines make compelling reading and mirror the elegance and variety of Chaucer's verse to a degree rarely met by translations that copy Chaucer beat for beat. Moreover, this translation's full, Chaucerian range of diction?from earthy to Latinate?conveys the great scope of Chaucer's interests and effects. more...
Interdisciplinarityby Joe Moran
Routledge 2001; US$ 22.95This volume examines the way in which we organize knowledge into disciplines, then reorganize it into new configurations when the existing disciplines have come to seem irrelevant or exclusory. more...
Sidneyby Martin Garrett
Routledge 1996; US$ 225.00The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read these sources direct. more...
John Donneby A.J. Smith
Routledge 1995; US$ 440.00The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses on a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the material themselves. more...
Chaucer's The Canterbury Talesby James L. Roberts
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2000; US$ 5.99The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also features glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format. Join Chaucer's band of pilgrims on their journey in CliffsNotes on The Canterbury Tales. Chaucer's narrators represent a wide spectrum of society with various ranks and occupations. From the distinguished and noble Knight, to the pious abbess, the honorable Clerk, the rich landowner, the worldly and crude Wife, and on down the scale to the low, vulgar Miller and Carpenter, and the corrupt Pardoner. Let this study guide reveal Chaucer's genius at understanding basic... more...
Malory's Le Morte D'Arthur (The Death of Arthur)by John N. Gardner
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1967; US$ 5.99Written in the 15th century, this version of the legend of King Arthur is perhaps the most famous. Filled with stories of adventure and chivalry among the knights of the Round Table in Camelot, love, and magic, it sets the imagination in motion. more...
Donne, Castiglione and the Poetry of Courtlinessby Peter DeSa Wiggins
Indiana University Press 2001; US$ 27.95Donne, Castiglione, and the Poetry of CourtlinessPeter DeSa Wiggins The influence of The Book of the Courtier on the work of John Donne. John Donne has been described as a "poet of ambition," who used his poems as agents in his quest for preferment among the elites of Elizabethan and early Stuart London. Until now the extent of the influence on Donne's work of that era's most influential court text -- Castiglione's The Book of the Courtier -- has never been fully explored. Courtier was Elizabethan England's approved repository of the complex social codes that governed the behavior of those desiring advancement at... more...
Tales of The Clerk and The Wife of Bathby Geoffrey Chaucer; Marion Wynne-Davies
Routledge 1992; US$ 33.95Wynne-Davies addresses the social and cultural context of the poem's production in the first feminist edition of these two tales. Also includes a line-by-line gloss and historical introduction. more...
Foucault and Literatureby Simon During
Routledge 1992; US$ 47.95Offering a critique of Foucault and the literary studies that have been influenced by him, Simon During takes in Foucault's studies of `transgressive' writing from Sade and Artaud to the French `new novelists' of the 1960s. more...
Spenser Encyclopediaby A.C. Hamilton
Routledge 1991; US$ 530.00Edmund Spenser remains one of Britain's most famous poets. With nearly 700 entries this Encyclopedia provides a comprehensive one-stop reference tool. more...