English medieval narrative in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries / Piero Boitani ; translated by Joan Krakover Hall.

Call Number	821.0309
Author	Boitani, Piero, author.
Title	English medieval narrative in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries / Piero Boitani ; translated by Joan Krakover Hall. English Medieval Narrative in the Thirteenth & Fourteenth Centuries
Physical Description	1 online resource (ix, 309 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Notes	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Contents	The Religious Tradition -- The Comic Tradition -- The World of Romance -- Dream and Vision -- The Narrative Collections and Gower -- Chaucer -- The dream poem -- The romance -- The narrative collection.
Summary	This is a wide-ranging and detailed study of English narrative verse in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Piero Boitani describes and analyses the undisputed masterpieces of narrative (such as the works of the Gawain poet, Langland, Gower and Chaucer), as well as the anonymous romances and specimens of religious and comic narrative which form the background to the better-known poems. The book is divided by literary genres or structural systems: chapters on the religious, comic and romance traditions are followed by a discussion of dream and visionary narratives and a chapter on story collections including those of Gower. The rest of the book is devoted to Chaucer, who mastered all these types.
Added Author	Hall, Joan Krakover, translator.
Subject	Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 Criticism and interpretation. English poetry Middle English, 1100-1500 History and criticism. Narrative poetry, English History and criticism. Narration (Rhetoric) History To 1500. Tales, Medieval History and criticism.
Multimedia	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511552915

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Summary	This is a wide-ranging and detailed study of English narrative verse in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Piero Boitani describes and analyses the undisputed masterpieces of narrative (such as the works of the Gawain poet, Langland, Gower and Chaucer), as well as the anonymous romances and specimens of religious and comic narrative which form the background to the better-known poems. The book is divided by literary genres or structural systems: chapters on the religious, comic and romance traditions are followed by a discussion of dream and visionary narratives and a chapter on story collections including those of Gower. The rest of the book is devoted to Chaucer, who mastered all these types.
Notes	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Contents	The Religious Tradition -- The Comic Tradition -- The World of Romance -- Dream and Vision -- The Narrative Collections and Gower -- Chaucer -- The dream poem -- The romance -- The narrative collection.
Subject	Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 Criticism and interpretation. English poetry Middle English, 1100-1500 History and criticism. Narrative poetry, English History and criticism. Narration (Rhetoric) History To 1500. Tales, Medieval History and criticism.
Multimedia	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511552915