Chaucer and dissimilarity : literary comparisons in Chaucer and other late-medieval writing / John J. McGavin
| Author(s): | McGavin, John J., 1950- |
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| Subjects: | Troilus and Criseyde English language--Middle English, 1100-1500--Comparison Comparative literature--English and European Comparative literature--European and English Difference (Philosophy) in literature Philosophy, Medieval, in literature Persuasion (Rhetoric) Rhetoric, Medieval Chaucer, Geoffrey, Troilus and Criseyde Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400--Technique Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400. Troilus and Criseyde Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400--Philosophy |
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| Material Type: | Books |
| Language: | English |
| Audience: | Unspecified |
| Published: | Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; London : Associated University Presses, c2000 |
| LC Classification: | P, PR |
| Table of Contents: | Acknowledgments 9 Introduction: Comparison and Literary Language 11 1. Traditions of Comparison and Dissimilarity 31 2. Naming and the House of Fame 58 3. Similes 84 4. Patterns of Comparison in Troilus and Criseyde 119 5. Persuasive Comparisons in Troilus and Criseyde 145 6. The Poem as Exemplum 170 Conclusion 200 Notes 207 Bibliography 225 Index 235 |
| Notes: | LCCN: 99047453 ISBN: 0838638147 (alk. paper) Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-233) and index |
| Physical Description: | 240 p. ; 24 cm |
| OCLC Number: | 42413391 |
| ISBN/ISSN: | 0838638147 |