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. Ed(S): Fein, Susanna; Raybin, David B. - Chaucer: Contemporary Approaches - 9780271035680 - V9780271035680
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Chaucer: Contemporary Approaches

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Description for Chaucer: Contemporary Approaches paperback. Editor(s): Fein, Susanna; Raybin, David B. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 442.

Chaucer was an extraordinary writer who expressed the tenor of his times with ingenious verbal facility and a profound sympathy for the human condition. Like his original work, the ongoing study of his life, writings, and culture reflects the questions, conversations, and scholarly approaches of contemporary society. A renaissance of sorts in Chaucer studies has been flourishing in recent years, led by the scholars represented in this volume. They continue to chart a course for the next generation of work on Chaucer and medieval English literary studies.

Susanna Fein and David Raybin, editors of The Chaucer Review, have organized this volume to showcase those strands of inquiry and perspectives that are yielding exhilarating new slants on the poetic records of the Middle Ages. By combining twenty-first-century theoretical orientations and material perspectives, each of the twelve essays here adds contemporary relevance to our reading of Chaucer while remaining strongly grounded in his critical legacy. Using these methods to explore Chaucer's relationship to place, his contemporary sociolinguistic environment, and issues of humor, gender, and literary and political forces in his works, Chaucer: Contemporary Approaches not only presents experienced and budding scholars alike with an overview of modern approaches, but also provides a blueprint for Chaucer studies into the future.

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Penn State University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780271035680
SKU
V9780271035680
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About . Ed(S): Fein, Susanna; Raybin, David B.
Susanna Fein is Professor of English at Kent State University and co-editor of The Chaucer Review. David Raybin is Professor of English at Eastern Illinois University and co-editor of The Chaucer Review.

Reviews for Chaucer: Contemporary Approaches
“The book is neither intended nor suitable for beginners, and all but the most sophisticated undergraduates are likely to become lost amid many references to scholars and scholarship. But specialists with even limited familiarity with Chaucer will find this collection ideal.” —S. Downey Choice “What is engaging about the essays in this collection is their analytical, speculative, sometimes contestive turns, their proposed new directions for Chaucer studies. . . . This entire collection, as a collection that points forward, is entirely welcome.” —Leonard Koff Journal of English and Germanic Philology “This volume admirably achieves its goal to sketch out the scholarly successes in Chaucer studies. . . . [T]he chapters in this volume succeed in articulating the impressive contributions made by the current generations of Chaucer scholars and in offering a clear sense of the promising future that lies ahead.” —Deanne Williams Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies “Initiating collaborative projects, minding gaps in the scholarship of our field, fostering community: [Fein and Raybin’s] contribution extends well beyond co-editing Chaucer Review, the journal whose fiftieth anniversary this handsome book celebrates. Chaucer: Visual Approaches offers a wealth of images, fresh ways to think about them, and fruitful exploration of their many implications for reading Chaucer.” —Nancy Mason Bradbury Studies in the Age of Chaucer

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