Festschriften and collection -- Bibliographies and reports -- Reference and dictionaries -- Chaucer's life -- Manuscript and textual studies -- Facsimiles and critical editions -- Editorial history and editorial practice -- Modernizations, translations, and translation history -- Sources, analogues, and literary relations -- Chaucer's influence and later allusion -- Chaucer in fiction -- Style, rhetoric, prosody, and versification -- Language and word studies -- Narrative technique and poetic self-consciousness -- Themes and motifs -- Gender, sexuality, and identity -- General criticism -- The Canterbury tales -- Troilus and Criseyde -- Dream poems -- Lyrics, lyrical technique, and minor poems -- Boece -- The equatorie of the planetis -- The romaunt of the rose -- Treatise on the astrolab -- Apocrypha and lost works -- Audio-visual aids and electronic media -- Pedagogy : study guides, school texts, and anthologies -- Pedagogy : lesson plans and pedagogical theory -- Items not printed in previous print bibliographies -- Appendix : Reviews of books published before 1997.
Summary:
"Beloved author of The Canterbury Tales and foundation of the English literary tradition, Geoffrey Chaucer has been popular with readers, writers, and scholars for over 600 years. More than 4,600 books, essays, poems, stories, recordings, and websites pertaining to Chaucer were published between 1997 and 2010, and this full biblography identifies each of them separately, providing full publication information and a descriptive summary of contents, thoroughly cross-listed and indexed. The bibliography also cites reviews for individual books, and offers several useful discovery aids to enable users to locate individual items of interest, whether a study of the Wife of Bath's love life, a video about Chaucer's language, advice on how to teach a particular poem by Chaucer, or a murder mystery that features Chaucer as detective. Designed for the international audience of Chaucer students and scholars, the bibliography identifies not only traditional academic studies but pedagogical and popular materials as well. It covers digital and print matter, including a comprehensive range of materials that pertain to Chaucer's life, works, and ongoing influence: books, essays, poems, stories, translations and modernizations, websites, recordings, and films. A unique feature, not found in previous Chaucer bibliographies, is the classification "Chaucer in fiction." The book extends into the twenty-first century the unbroken legacy of cumulative Chaucer bibliographies, and is a fundamental reference work for those interested in early English literature, the history of the English language, medieval studies, manuscript studies, and studies of gender, identity, and nation. Its taxonomy of classifications is highly refined and its author and subject indexes are comprehensive. It contains nearly 200 items published before 1997 missed in previous Chaucer bibliographies"--Back cover.
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