178 Pages
by
Routledge
178 Pages
by
Routledge
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Focusing on four aspects of Chaucer's poetics-use of narrative, speech, rhetoric, and figurative language-this is the first book-length study to identify Chaucer's distinctive poetic strategies by making specific comparisons with known textual sources. The author provides a combination of analysis of both poetic stylistics and sources, reading The Legend of Good Women and five of The Canterbury... Read more
Contents: Introduction; Narrative; Speech; Rhetoric; Figurative language; Conclusion; Appendix; Works cited; Index.
Biography
Amanda Holton is a Lecturer at the University of Reading, UK and a Visiting Fellow at the University of Southampton, UK.
'...a very good and very useful book... [Amanda Holton] also makes original critical observations that I found to be the most memorable aspects of the book.' The Medieval Review 'Holton achieves something substantive by using source-comparison in relation to a selection of texts to chart some recurrent and consistent patterns across the Knight’s, Man of Law’s, Physician’s, Monk’s, and Manciple’s Tales and the Legend of Good Women. [...]In sum, this book has something fresh to report, and of how many new books on Chaucer can that be said?' Notes and Queries
