The Routledge Companion to Global Chaucer (Routledge Literature Companions)

by: Craig E. Bertolet (Editor),Susan Nakley (Editor)

Publisher: Routledge

Edition: 1st

Publication Date: 2024/10/2

Language: English

Print Length: 500 pages

ISBN-10: 1032146850

ISBN-13: 9781032146850

Book Description

The Routledge Companion to Global Chaucer offers 40 chapters by leading scholars working with contemporary, theoretical, and textual approaches to the poetry and prose of Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340–1400) in a global context. This volume is an ideal starting point for beginners, offering contemporary perspectives on Chaucer both geographically and intellectually, including:• Exploration of major and lesser-known works, translations, and lyrics, such as The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde• Consideration of geographic and imagined spaces in various forms of communication• Discussion of identities, cognitions, and pattes of thought, including gender, race, disability, science, and natureThe Routledge Companion to Global Chaucer provides post-pandemic, twenty-first century readers a way to teach, lea, and write about Chaucer’s works complete with awareness of their reach, their limitations, and occlusions on a global field of culture.

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The Routledge Companion to Global Chaucer offers 40 chapters by leading scholars working with contemporary, theoretical, and textual approaches to the poetry and prose of Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340–1400) in a global context. This volume is an ideal starting point for beginners, offering contemporary perspectives on Chaucer both geographically and intellectually, including:• Exploration of major and lesser-known works, translations, and lyrics, such as The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde• Consideration of geographic and imagined spaces in various forms of communication• Discussion of identities, cognitions, and pattes of thought, including gender, race, disability, science, and natureThe Routledge Companion to Global Chaucer provides post-pandemic, twenty-first century readers a way to teach, lea, and write about Chaucer’s works complete with awareness of their reach, their limitations, and occlusions on a global field of culture.