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Chaucerian Fiction
By (Author) Robert B. Burlin
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
821.1
Hardback
304
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
595g
By analyzing Chaucer's major poetic works, Robert Burlin succeeds in isolating thematic undercurrents with a bearing on the poet's process of composition. He is thus able to relate individual poems to Chaucer's view of himself as a writer, and to assess the internal evidence for a Chaucerian theory of fiction. Professor Burlin contends that a logic