Controversy in Literature: Fiction, Drama, and Poetry, with Related Criticism.

Author / Editor
Freedman, Morris, ed.
Davis, Paul B. ed.

Title
Controversy in Literature: Fiction, Drama, and Poetry, with Related Criticism.

Published
New York: Scribner, 1968.

Physical Description
xviii, 750 pp.

Description
An introduction to the study of literature for classroom use, arranged by literary mode and focused thematically on social, religious, and literary controversies. Includes a section titled "Medieval and Modern Chaucer" (pp. 457-81) that raises questions about reading Chaucer in Middle English or in modern translation, reprints a selection from Nevill Coghill's 1958 comments about translating Chaucer, and presents facing-page versions of WBT: F. N. Robinson's 1957 edition and Coghill's modern verse translation.

Contributor
Coghill, Nevill, trans.

Chaucer Subjects
Wife of Bath and Her Tale
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