Middle English Literature : A Guide to Criticism
- Author / Editor
- Dalrymple, Roger, ed.
Middle English Literature : A Guide to Criticism
- Published
- London : Blackwell, 2004.
- Physical Description
- xviii, 264 pp.
- Series
- Blackwell Guides to Criticism
- Description
- An introduction to critical approaches to Middle English literature, featuring twenty-two reprinted examples of critical methods by various authors. Chapters include authorship; textual form; genre; language, style and rhetoric; allegory; historicism; gender; and identity. .
- Each chapter includes examples (mostly excerpts), a historical critical introduction, and suggestions for further reading. Discussion of Chaucer and his works (especially CT and TC) is important--often central--to nearly every chapter.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.
- Troilus and Criseyde.