Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-243) and index.
Contents:
The Canterbury tales: style of the man and style of the work -- Chaucer's religion and the Chaucer religion -- Chaucer in an age of criticism -- "What amounteth al this wit?": Chaucer and scholarship -- Locus of action in medieval narrative -- Poetry and crisis in the age of Chaucer -- The Fabliaux -- The Wife of Bath and Gautier's La veuve -- The Fabliaux, courtly culture, and the (re)invention of vulgarity -- The emergence of psychological allegory in old French romance -- Erich Auerbach, Mimesis.
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