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E. Talbot Donaldson.
Speaking of Chaucer.
Publisher: University of London, the Athlone Press, 1977 reprint (previously issued 1973; hardback was 1970).
ISBN 0485120216.
Binding: paperback, stitch bound.
Size: 137×214×12mm.
Page count: xii,178pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition good: this copy shows evidence of long-term storage storage, the usual mild scuffs etc. on the covers, corners starting to curl a bit; otherwise unused.

This item £6.00
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Weight without packaging: 269g.

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Collects several previously published essays, along with a few new ones. Most deal with topics central to the understanding of Chaucer’s art; others are concerned, in a complementary sense, with aspects of the medieval literary background and with important principles of textual criticism.

Contents:
Chaucer the Pilgrim;
Idiom of popular poetry in the Miller’s Tale;
The effect of the Merchant’s Tale;
The masculine narrator & four women of style;
Criseide and her narrator;
The ending of Troilus;
The psychology of editors of ME texts;
Canterbury Tales, D117: a critical edition;
Miller’s Tale, A3483-6;
Patristic exegesis in the criticism of medieval literature — the opposition;
The myth of courtly love;
Medieval poetry & medieval sin.

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