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Aspects of Love in John Gower's Confessio Amantis
Routledge 2004; US$ 139.00In her thorough examination of Gower's work, Ellen S. Bakalian shows how Gower emphasizes and illustrates a belief that reason much rule man inn all things, including his natural instincts to love. more...
Chaucer and Boccaccio
Palgrave Macmillan 2001; US$ 155.00In the late Middle Ages, Chaucer invents two imaginative domains crucial to his culture and to our understanding of the emergence of selfhood, subjectivity and social arrangements; antiquity and late-medieval modernity. Edwards demonstrates in this study how this was the result of Chaucer's reading and re-writing of the works of Boccaccio, which provide... more...
Comparing Texts
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 21.95Routledge A Level English Guides equip AS and A2 Level students with the skills they need to explore, evaluate, and enjoy English. Books in the series are built around the various skills specified in the assessment objectives (AOs) for all AS and A2 Level English courses. Focusing on the AOs most relevant to their topic, the books help students... more...
Philosophical Chaucer
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 32.00This innovative study argues that the Canterbury Tales represents Chaucer's most extended meditation on agency, autonomy, and practical reason. Mark Miller uncovers Chaucer's debt to Boethius, Augustine, and other philosophers and shows how Chaucer's literary experiments represent a distinctive philosophical achievement that remains relevant to today's... more...
Feminizing Chaucer
Boydell & Brewer 2002; US$ 34.95An investigation of Chaucer's thinking about women, assessed in the light of developments in feminist criticism. more...
Paradise, Death and Doomsday in Anglo-Saxon Literature
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 37.00How did the Anglo-Saxons conceptualise the interim between death and Doomsday? In Paradise, Death and Doomsday in Anglo-Saxon Literature, Dr Kabir presents the first investigation into the Anglo-Saxon belief in the 'interim paradise': paradise as a temporary abode for good souls following death and pending the final decisions of Doomsday. more...
Representations of the Natural World in Old English Poetry
Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 40.00The author argues that Old English poetic descriptions of the natural world were not a reflection of physical conditions but a literary device used to define important issues, such as the state of humanity, the power of individuals and the relationship between God and creation. more...
An Introduction to Literary Studies
Taylor and Francis 1999; US$ 24.95An Introduction to Literary Studies provides the beginner with an accessible and comprehensive survey of literature. Systematically taking in theory, genre and literary history, Klarer provides easy to understand descriptions of a variety of approaches to texts. This invaluable guide includes sections on: fiction poetry drama film ... more...
John Lydgate and the Making of Public Culture
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 36.00Inspired by the example of Chaucer and Gower, John Lydgate articulated the great political questions of his time in his poetry, prose and translations. Maura Nolan offers a major re-interpretation of Lydgate's work, his relationship to Chaucer, and his central role in the developing literary culture of the fifteenth century. more...
Geoffrey Chaucer
Taylor and Francis 2001; US$ 29.95This comprehensive, user-friendly introduction provides information on Chaucer's life, contexts and works, also outlining major critical views and interpretations from initial publication to the present. more...









