商品簡介
In a 1984 volume, stalwart American Chaucer scholar Kolve (emeritus English, U. of California-Los Angles) explored how the narrative in the first five Canterbury Tales invoked imagery in the reader's mind. Here he expands his study to another four tales as well as to the poems Troilus and Criseyde and The Legend of Good Women. He continues as well a central argument, that in Chaucer's mature work, one or two images emerge as dominant in the course of single tales or in each constituent part of the longer poems. His topics include looking at the sun in Troilus and Criseyde, of calendars and cuckoldry in The Merchant's Tale, poetry versus magic in The Franklin's Tale, and the iconography of St. Cecilia in The Second Nun's Tale. Annotation c2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
V.A. Kolve is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English at UCLA. One of America's foremost Chaucer scholars, he is the co-editor of the Norton Critical Edition of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (1989; Second Edition, 2005). He has served as President
