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Aeneid IV
Author_Amanda Holton
Barry Windeatt
Book III
canterbury
Canterbury Tales
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Chaucer's Clerkes Tale
Chaucer's Knight's Tale
Chaucer's Legend
Chaucer's Poetics
Chaucer's Practice
chaucerian
Chaucerian Texts
Chaucer’s Clerkes Tale
Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale
Chaucer’s Legend
Chaucer’s Poetics
Chaucer’s Practice
classical sources adaptation
Clerk's Tale
Clerk’s Tale
comparative study of Chaucer's influences
Emotional Rhetoric
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Essential Events
Fasti Ii
Guido Delle Colonne's Historia
Guido Delle Colonne’s Historia
Inessential Events
intertextual analysis
Knight's Tale
knights
Knight’s Tale
Law's Tale
laws
Law’s Tale
Manciple's Tale
manciples
Manciple’s Tale
medieval English literature
Monk's Tale
Monk’s Tale
narrative technique
Narrative Unit
Ovidian Source
Physician's Tale
Physician’s Tale
Piero Boitani
poetic stylistics
rhetorical strategies
roman
rose
tale
tales
texts
Virgil's Dido
Virgil’s Dido
Product details
- ISBN 9780754663942
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 18 Aug 2008
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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 Tales (The Knight's Tale, The Man of Law's Tale, The Physician's Tale, The Monk's Tale, and The Manciple's Tale) against their textual sources, including Ovid's Metamorphoses and Heroides, Boccaccio's Teseida, Virgil's Aeneid, Le Roman de la Rose, and histories by Nicholas Trevet and Guido delle Colonne. Holton provides a picture of Chaucer's habits as a writer, showing that he was consistent in asserting his own techniques against the pressure of his sources and in keeping control over words and their meaning.
Amanda Holton is a Lecturer at the University of Reading, UK and a Visiting Fellow at the University of Southampton, UK.
