附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-243) and index.
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.
摘要:"Medieval Literature, Style, and Culture brings together in one volume fourteen essays by the noted medievalist Charles Muscatine, author of Chaucer and the French Tradition and The Old French Fabliaux. In this collection Muscatine focuses on style, meaning, and culture in Chaucer, his English contemporaries, and French fabliaux and romance."--Jacket.