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Chaucer from Prentice to Poet: The Metaphor of Love in Dream Visions and Troilus
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Chaucer from Prentice to Poet: The Metaphor of Love in Dream Visions and Troilus and Criseyde Hardback - 2008

by Edward I. Condren

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A comprehensive reevaluation of Chaucer's early poetry, from the "dream visions" to Troilus and Criseyde

While covering all the major work produced by Geoffrey Chaucer in his pre-Canterbury Tales career, Chaucer from Prentice to Poet seeks to correct the traditional interpretations of these poems. Edward Condren provides new and provocative interpretations of the three "dream visions"--Book of the Duchess, Parliament of Fowls, and House of Fame--as well as Chaucer's early masterwork Troilus and Criseyde.

Condren draws an arresting series of portraits of Chaucer as glimpsed in his work: the fledgling poet seeking to master the artificial style of French love poetry; the passionate author attempting to rebut critics of his work; and, finally, the master of a naturalistic style entirely his own.

This book is one of the few works written in the past century that reevaluates Chaucer's early poetry and the only one that examines the Dream Visions in conjunction with the Troilus.It should frame the discourse of Chaucer scholarship for many generations to come.

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  • Title Chaucer from Prentice to Poet: The Metaphor of Love in Dream Visions and Troilus and Criseyde
  • Author Edward I. Condren
  • Binding Hardback
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University Press of Florida, Gainesville
  • Publication date 2008-06
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780813032412 / 0813032415
  • Weight 1.05 lbs (0.48 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.9 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 2.29 cm)
  • Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • Library of Congress subjects Love in literature, Metaphor
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2008014468
  • Dewey Decimal Code 821.1

About the author

Edward I. Condren, professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles, is the author of Chaucer and the Energy of Creation: The Design and Organization of the Canterbury Tales and The Numerical Universe of the Gawain-Pearl Poet: Beyond Phi.
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