The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer (Cambridge Companions to Literature) 2nd Edition by Piero Boitani (PDF)

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The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer is an extensively revised version of the first edition, which has become a classic in the field. This new volume responds to the success of the first edition and to recent debates in Chaucer Studies. Important material has been updated, and new contributions have been commissioned to take into account recent trends in literary theory as well as in studies of Chaucer’s works. New chapters cover the literary inheritance traceable in his works to French and Italian sources, his style, as well as new approaches to his work. Other topics covered include the social and literary scene in England in Chaucer’s time, and comedy, pathos and romance in the Canterbury Tales. The volume now offers a useful chronology, and the bibliography has been entirely updated to provide an indispensable guide for today’s student of Chaucer.

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⭐Great book that I am using now. It is very beneficial to literature classes.

⭐First of all, some of the companions have contained rather insightful and interesting essays–the companion to Plato’s Republic was quite good. I was disappointed in the Chaucer companion (as I am with the Spenser) in that it attempts too wide a breadth in approaching the literature–some of the essays felt like summaries, while others seem to draw counter-intuitive or otherwise irritating conclusions concerning “meaning” of the texts. A good deal of attention is paid to historicist criticism which, unfortunately, is the current academic trend. Perhaps if Cambridge and the editors (Boitani’s essay on the Parliament of Fowls was particularly uninspired) did not object to the morally questionable act of publishing a book full of summaries and historical essays (and doing this for the majority of canonical authors) they would spend time producing solid works of criticism and collating these into respectable collections. If you want information on Chaucer, seek out the Chaucer Bibliography Online and locate the books through your school library. If the Cambridge Companion is your only feasible option for secondary criticism, take it with a grain of salt. These books should not be assigned to anyone doing graduate or post-graduate study.

⭐I’ll be blunt: I like the Cambridge Companion series. They present a broad spectrum of approaches to their topic, which are all by well respected scholars in the field. This edition continues that pattern admirably: there is a very useful biographical essay, and you’d be hard pushed to find anything in the Riverside Chaucer that doesn’t get some thoughtful consideration somewhere in here. I wouldn’t recommend it for A-level students, as its scope is too broad for someone studying just one of the Canterbury Tales, for example, but for university study, or for teachers of Chaucer, it’s a really useful book to have to hand.

⭐Very interesting but leaves one wanting more information and hence more expense.

⭐Book in excellent condition

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