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The three Oxford Guides to Chaucer are written by scholars of international repute, with the purpose of summarizing what is known about his works and offering interpretations based on recent advances in both historical knowledge and theoretical understanding. They will provide readers at every level with new interpretations and ideas, with essential and up-to-date information on such matters as dating and sources and with analyses of thematic issues, structure, style rhetoric and generic relations brought right up-to-date for this second paperback edition. Helen Cooper's volume on The Canterbury Tales tackles these matters both for the whole work and for each individual Tale. It also includes a survey of literary responses to the Tales over the two centuries following Chaucer's death. The book is perhaps the most comprehensive single-volume guide to the Tales yet produced, bringing together a wide range of disparate material and providing a readable commentry on all aspects of the work. It combines the comprehensive coverage of a reference book with the coherence of a critical account and since its first publication in 1989, has established itself as a standard work on the Tales.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Oxford Guides to Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales
• Author: Helen Cooper
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 454
• EAN: 9780198711551
• ISBN: 0198711557
• ID: 04477321
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Weight: 672 g
• Dimensions: 232 × 157 × 25 mm
• Date of publishing: 29. February 1996

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