The Sources of Chaucer's Poetics

Name: The Sources of Chaucer's Poetics
Brand: Taylor & Francis
SKU: 9780754663942
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By Amanda Holton

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The Sources of Chaucer's Poetics explores Chaucer's distinctive poetic techniques by examining his use of narrative, speech, rhetoric, and figurative language. Amanda Holton analyses key works including The Legend of Good Women and five of The Canterbury Tales, comparing them with their textual sources such as Ovid's Metamorphoses and Heroides, Boccaccio's Teseida, Virgil's Aeneid, and more. This study reveals how Chaucer consistently asserted his poetic voice while masterfully managing his sources and language.
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This book is ideal for scholars and students of medieval literature, particularly those interested in Chaucer's poetic style and intertextual sources. It suits readers seeking a rigorous and original analysis of Chaucer's narrative techniques within an academic context.

Focusing on four aspects of Chaucer's poetics - use of narrative, speech, rhetoric, and figurative language, this study identifies Chaucer's distinctive poetic strategies by making specific comparisons with known textual sources. It provides a combination of analysis of both poetic stylistics and sources.

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Focusing on four aspects of Chaucer's poetics—use of narrative, speech, rhetoric, and figurative language—this is the first book-length study to identify Chaucer's distinctive poetic strategies by making specific comparisons with known textual sources.

The author provides a combination of analysis of both poetic stylistics and sources, reading The Legend of Good Women and five of The Canterbury Tales (The Knight's Tale, The Man of Law's Tale, The Physician's Tale, The Monk's Tale, and The Manciple's Tale) against their textual sources, including Ovid's Metamorphoses and Heroides, Boccaccio's Teseida, Virgil's Aeneid, Le Roman de la Rose, and histories by Nicholas Trevet and Guido delle Colonne.

Holton provides a picture of Chaucer's habits as a writer, showing that he was consistent in asserting his own techniques against the pressure of his sources and in keeping control over words and their meaning.

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Praised as a very good and useful book by The Medieval Review, Holton's work offers original and memorable critical observations. Reviews note the book's fresh insights through detailed source-comparison, highlighting consistent patterns across multiple tales. Notes and Queries regard it as a substantive and innovative contribution to Chaucer studies.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780754663942

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 18 August 2008

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 453g

Pages: 178

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Amanda Holton Arts & Culture Non-Fiction

About the Author

Amanda Holton is a Lecturer at the University of Reading, UK and a Visiting Fellow at the University of Southampton, UK.