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ISBN-13:	9780198111870
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	04/26/1984
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	5.75(w) x 8.75(h) x 0.75(d)

Table of Contents

	Abbreviations	vi
1.	Poems Without Contexts: The Rawlinson Lyrics	1
2.	Chaucer's Knight's Tale And The Three Ages Of Man	27
3.	Irony In The Merchant's Tale	49
4.	Four Notes On Chaucer's Sir Thopas	60
I.	An Agony in Three Fits	61
II.	'Listeth, Lordes'	66
III.	The Title 'Sir'	69
IV.	'Worly under Wede'	74
5.	The Action Of Langland's Second Vision	79
6.	The Audience Of Piers Plowman	102
	Postscript	113
7.	Honour And Shame In Sir Gaw Ain And The Green Knight	117
8.	Fantasy And Language In The Cloud Of Unknowing	132
9.	Henryson: The Preaching Of The Swallow	148
10.	The Poet As Petitioner	161
11.	'Young Saint, Old Devil': Reflections On A Medieval Proverb	177
12.	Allegory: The Literal Level	192
	Index	213

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