List of contributors
Preface
Note on the text
1 The social and literary scene in England
PAUL STROHM
2 Chaucer's Continental in heritance: The early poems and Troilus and Criseyde
DAVID WALLACE
3 0ld books brought to life in dreams: The Book of the Duchess, the House of Fame, the Parliament of Fowls
PIERO BOITANI
4 Telling the story in Troilus and Criseyde
MARK LAMBERT
5 Chance and destiny in Troilus and Criseyde and the Knight's
Tale
JILL MANN
6 The Canterbury Tales: Personal drama or experiments in
poetic variety ?
C. DAVID BENSON
7 The Canterbury Tales : Romance
J. A. BURROW
8 The Canterbury Tales n: Comedy
DEREK PEARSALL
9 The Canterbury Tales m: Pathos
ROBERT WORTH F'RANK, JR
10 The Canterbury Tales iv: Exemplum and fable
A.C SPEARING
11 Chaucerian realism
MORTON W. BLOOMFIELD
12 Literary structuresin Chaucer
BARRY WINDEATTT
13 Chaucer's narrator: Troilus and Criseyde and the Canterbury
Tales
DIETER MEHL
14 Chaucer's poetic style
DEREK BREWER
15 Further reading: A guide to Chaucer studies
JOERG 0. FICHTE
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