Description
This Norton Critical Edition includes:
* The medieval masterpiece's most popular tales, including-new to the Third Edition-The Man of Law's Prologue and Tale and The Second Nun's Prologue and Tale.
* Extensive marginal glosses, explanatory footnotes, a preface and a guide to Chaucer's language by V. A. Kolve and Glending Olson.
* Sources and analogues arranged by tale.
* Fourteen critical essays, eight of them new to the Third Edition.
* A Chronology, a Short Glossary and a Selected Bibliography.
About the Author
V. A. Kolve is UCLA Foundation Professor of English, Emeritus. A Rhodes Scholar, he is the author of Chaucer and the Imagery of Narrative, winner of the James Russell Lowell Award and British Council Prize, The Play Called Corpus Christi, and the forthcoming Christ as Gardener and Pilgrim: A Study in Medieval Iconography. Glending Olson is Professor Emeritus of English, Cleveland State University. He is the author of Literature as Recreation in the Later Middle Ages.
Book Information
ISBN 9781324000563
Author Geoffrey Chaucer
Format Paperback
Page Count 720
Imprint WW Norton & Co
Publisher WW Norton & Co
Weight(grams) 536g
Dimensions(mm) 236mm * 142mm * 20mm
* The medieval masterpiece's most popular tales, including-new to the Third Edition-The Man of Law's Prologue and Tale and The Second Nun's Prologue and Tale.
* Extensive marginal glosses, explanatory footnotes, a preface and a guide to Chaucer's language by V. A. Kolve and Glending Olson.
* Sources and analogues arranged by tale.
* Fourteen critical essays, eight of them new to the Third Edition.
* A Chronology, a Short Glossary and a Selected Bibliography.
About the Author
V. A. Kolve is UCLA Foundation Professor of English, Emeritus. A Rhodes Scholar, he is the author of Chaucer and the Imagery of Narrative, winner of the James Russell Lowell Award and British Council Prize, The Play Called Corpus Christi, and the forthcoming Christ as Gardener and Pilgrim: A Study in Medieval Iconography. Glending Olson is Professor Emeritus of English, Cleveland State University. He is the author of Literature as Recreation in the Later Middle Ages.
Book Information
ISBN 9781324000563
Author Geoffrey Chaucer
Format Paperback
Page Count 720
Imprint WW Norton & Co
Publisher WW Norton & Co
Weight(grams) 536g
Dimensions(mm) 236mm * 142mm * 20mm
