Research Catalog

Title

Contradictions : from Beowulf to Chaucer : selected studies of Larry D. Benson / edited by Theodore M. Andersson and Stephen A. Barney.

Author

Benson, Larry Dean, 1929-

Publication

Aldershot, Hants, England : Scolar Press ; Brookfield, Vt., USA : Ashgate Pub. Co., 1995.

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Additional Authors

• Andersson, Theodore Murdock, 1934-
• Barney, Stephen A.

Description

xxiii, 322 pages : portrait; 24 cm

Subjects

• English poetry > Old English, ca. 450-1100 > History and criticism
• Arthurian romances > History and criticism
• English poetry > Middle English, 1100-1500 > History and criticism
• Beowulf
• Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 > Criticism and interpretation
• Chivalry in literature

Bibliography (note)

• "Bibliography of the publications of Larry D. Benson": p. xx-xxiii.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Bibliography of the Publications of Larry D. Benson -- 1. The Literary Character of Anglo-Saxon Formulaic Poetry -- 2. The Pagan Coloring of Beowulf -- 3. The Originality of Beowulf -- 4. Chaucer's Spelling Reconsidered -- 5. The Order of The Canterbury Tales -- 6. The Authorship of St. Erkenwald -- 7. The Date of the Alliterative Morte Arthure -- 8. The Occasion of The Parliament of Fowls -- 9. The "Love-Tydynges" in Chaucer's House of Fame -- 10. The "Queynte" Punnings of Chaucer's Critics -- 11. The Beginnings of Chaucer's English Style -- 12. The Tournament in the Romances of Chretien de Troyes and L'Histoire de Guillaume le Marechal -- 13. Courtly Love and Chivalry in the Later Middle Ages.

ISBN

1859281737

LCCN

94023976

OCLC

• 32705081
• ocm32705081

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries