Chaucer and Menippean satire / F. Anne Payne
1981, First Edition. Madison : University of Wisconsin Press. Fine cloth copy in very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #441696
ISBN: 0299081702
Physical description; xii, 290 pages ; 22 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Menippean satire and Menippean satirists -- Lucian as Menippean satirist -- The consolation of philosophy as Menippean satire -- Fortune, happiness, and love in Troilus and Criseyde -- Foreknowledge and free will: three theories in The Nun's Priest Tale -- The eaters and the eaten in The Nun's priest Tale Sic et non: discarded world in The Knight's Tale -- The knight: fragments, silence, and beauty. Subjects; Chaucer, Geoffrey -1400 ; Humor. Lucian of Samosata Influence. Lucian of Samosata. Chaucer, Geoffrey 1343-1400. Chaucer, Geoffrey. Satire. Classicism. Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.). Philosophy, Medieval, in literature. Satire Classical influences. Satire, English. Satire, Greek Appreciation.
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