{"product_id":"oxford-guides-to-chaucer-troilus-and-criseyde-9780198823407","title":"Oxford Guides to Chaucer: Troilus and Criseyde","description":"This is a comprehensive critical guide to Chaucer's \u003cem\u003eTroilus and Criseyde\u003c\/em\u003e. This new edition has been comprehensively revised in light of the latest scholarly and critical research and with a fully updated bibliography. It includes a full account of Chaucer's imaginative deployment of his sources, and an extended survey of this narrative poem's innovative combination of a range of generic identities. The chapters explain how Chaucer builds thematic significance into his poem's symmetrical structure, and the poem's distinctive variety in style and language, as well as a full commentary on the poem's concerns with love in the contexts of time and mutability and human free will. The \u003cem\u003eGuide\u003c\/em\u003e explores the poem as an extended debate about the nature and value of love, and how love was conceptualized and experienced as a form of service in quest of compassionate reward, a quasi-religious devotion, and a potentially fatal illness always in hope of cure. The subjectivities of the chief protagonists are fully analysed, as is the poem's problematic ending. Alongside discussions of theme and structure, there is also an account of what the extant manuscripts of \u003cem\u003eTroilus and Criseyde\u003c\/em\u003e may reveal about the poem's early genesis, and a unique survey of responses to Troilus from its own times to the present day. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBarry Windeatt's contribution to the series is a comprehensive single-volume guide to \u003cem\u003eTroilus and Criseyde\u003c\/em\u003e, bringing together a wide range of material and providing a readable commentary on all aspects of the work. Combining the informative substance of a reference book with the coherence of a critical reading, the Guide has taken its place as the standard introduction to \u003cem\u003eTroilus and Criseyde\u003c\/em\u003e since its first publication in 1992.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBarry Windeatt, \u003cem\u003eFellow of Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBarry Windeatt is Fellow and Keeper of Rare Books at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. His research focuses largely on Chaucer, the literature of mysticism and contemplation, and the interface between medieval English textual and visual culture. He has both edited and translated Chaucer's \u003cem\u003eTroilus and Criseyde\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Book of Margery Kempe\u003c\/em\u003e, and, more recently, Julian of Norwich.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50488379080978,"sku":"9780198823407","price":43.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_abc3d5a0-9c19-4229-b520-7f457a2ac297.jpg?v=1730477214","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/oxford-guides-to-chaucer-troilus-and-criseyde-9780198823407","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}