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Overview
Designed as both a contribution to original research and as a stimulating and accessible text, this volume is a helpful, reliable, responsive and adaptable resource for students of Chaucer at all levels.Synopsis
Designed as both a contribution to original research and as a stimulating and accessible text, this volume is a helpful, reliable, responsive and adaptable resource for students of Chaucer at all levels.
Library Journal
This work, the latest entry in Blackwell's "Companions to Literature and Culture" series (e.g. Companion to Shakespeare), provides an inclusive and scholarly orientation to current theories and interpretations of Chaucer's works. Brown, director of the Canterbury Centre for Medieval and Tudor studies at the University of Kent and author of several books about Chaucer, selected 29 noted Chaucer scholars to write essays focusing on topics he considers key themes or issues such as chivalry, women, genre, love, science, pagan survivals, personal identity, and style. Each essay provides a summary of existing Chaucer scholarship, discusses key issues, analyzes passages of text, places Chaucer's texts into cultural context by examining the medieval point of view, and includes notes, references, and suggestions for further readings. The text updates Beryl Rowland's Companion to Chaucer Studies (1979) and will serve well as a one-volume introduction for new students. It also provides access to original research and new ideas sought by graduate students and faculty. Recommended for larger public and academic libraries.--Shana C. Fair, Ohio Univ., Zanesville, OH Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.
Editorials
Library Journal
This work, the latest entry in Blackwell's "Companions to Literature and Culture" series (e.g. Companion to Shakespeare), provides an inclusive and scholarly orientation to current theories and interpretations of Chaucer's works. Brown, director of the Canterbury Centre for Medieval and Tudor studies at the University of Kent and author of several books about Chaucer, selected 29 noted Chaucer scholars to write essays focusing on topics he considers key themes or issues such as chivalry, women, genre, love, science, pagan survivals, personal identity, and style. Each essay provides a summary of existing Chaucer scholarship, discusses key issues, analyzes passages of text, places Chaucer's texts into cultural context by examining the medieval point of view, and includes notes, references, and suggestions for further readings. The text updates Beryl Rowland's Companion to Chaucer Studies (1979) and will serve well as a one-volume introduction for new students. It also provides access to original research and new ideas sought by graduate students and faculty. Recommended for larger public and academic libraries.--Shana C. Fair, Ohio Univ., Zanesville, OH Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.From the Publisher
‘This collection of accessible, informative essays provides students and teachers with a balance of textual analysis and cultural contexts designed to enhance the understanding of Chaucer's major and minor works . . . Both serious first-time readers of Chaucer and veterans looking for credible information on more recent avenues of inquiry will find this a valuable source of information and bibliography.' Choice"This work, the latest entry in Blackwell's "Companions to Literature and Culture" series. . . provides an inclusive and scholarly orientation to current theories and interpretation of Chaucer's works." "Each essay. . . places Chaucer's texts into cultural context by examining the medieval point of view, and includes notes, references, and suggestions for further readings." "The text. . . will serve well as a one-volume introduction for new students. It also provides access to original research and new ideas sought by graduate students and faculty." Library Journal
"Overall, this is useful book. providing an up-to-date survey of the state of Chaucer scholarship on a wide range of issues...it will provoke interesting and educational debates in and out of the classroom." Reference Reviews
"[This book] is both highly readable and rich in its diversity, a book which any Chaucerian, novice or seasoned, will often pick up simply for the pleasure of browsing[...] Every student of Chaucer, from undergraduate to emiritus professor, will want to have access to it." English Studies: A Journal of English Language and Literature