Essays on Chaucerian Irony / Ed., with an essay on irony, by Beryl Rowland
- Author / Editor
- Birney, Earle.
Essays on Chaucerian Irony / Ed., with an essay on irony, by Beryl Rowland
- Published
- Toronto, Buffalo, and London: University of Toronto Press, 1985.
- Description
- Eight previously published essays (1937-61) by Birney, arranged as chapters in a study of Chaucer's experiments and development as an ironist. Treats Chaucer's use of "structural irony" in MilT, FrT, SumT, and ManT. Updates bibliographies for each chapter.
- Rowland's introductory essays, "Seven Types of Irony," categorizes Chaucer's uses: verbal, dramatic, narratorial, philosophic, irony of values, thematic, and structural.
- Contributor
- Rowland, Beryl, ed.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.