New Readings of Chaucer's Poetry [Hardcover]

This collection of essays makes available a wide range of new scholarship on Chaucer's poetry. Opening essays address the issues of Chaucerian representation and Chaucerian poetics , arguing for the multiplicity and complexity of what Chaucer represents and for the importance of his dual Anglo-French background in enabling him to articulate that complexity. Chaucer's use of Ovidian and Ciceronian sources and ideas is examined, and his pursuit of simplicity and suspicion of delicacy ; the potent issues of sexuality and spirituality, and money and death (with Chaucer's own ending and his thoughts on last things) complete the collection. Contributors: DEREK BREWER, HELEN COOPER, PAUL DOWER, JOHN V. FLEMING, JOHN HILL, TRAUGOTT LAWLER, CELIA LEWIS, R. BARTON PALMER, WILLIAM PROVOST, JOHN PLUMMER, WILLIAM ROGERS.A wide range of new scholarship on Chaucer's poetry.Introduction - Derek S BrewerI: Chaucerian Representation. II: Chaucerian Poetics - Helen CooperThe Best Line in Ovid and the Worst - John V. FlemingDelicacy vs. Truth: Defining Moral Heroism in the Canterbury Tales - Traugott LawlerChaucer's Endings - William Provost'Beth fructuous and that in litel space' The Engendering of Harry Bailly - John PlummerThinking about Money in Chaucer's Shipman's Tale [with Paul Dower] - William E RogersThinking about Money in Chaucer's Shipman's Tale [with William E. Rogers] - Paul DowerFraming Fiction with Death: Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and the Plague - Celia M LewisAristocratic Friendship in Troilus and Criseyde: Pandarus, Courtly Love and Ciceronian Brotherhood in Troy - John M HillChaucer's Legend of Good Women: The Narrator's Tale - R Barton Palmer