Mitchell Jerome Provost William (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 117 pages. Ex-college library marks, pages toned; a sound binding. The jacket has some discoloring, wear and tear; taped inside. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Literary Criticism & Essays; ISBN: 0820303194. ISBN/EAN: 9780820303192. Inventory No: 233465.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good--. First Priinting. Book is a clean tight unmarked copy.

HC. 117pp ISBN 0820303194 very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover).

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust jacket has some wear and staining, price clipped.

Octavo, blue cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, 117 pp. Very Good, with foxing (age darkened spotting), in a Very Good dust jacket with lightly rubbed edges. From jacket: .Presents complementary essays by leading medievalists. Norman Eliason argues that Geoffrey Chaucer is preeminently a love poet and that his characteristic subject is chiefly ordinary or everyday love.In contrast Edmund Reiss believes that the principal thrust of love in the poet's work is parodic in nature -- and that ordinary love is not directly used to measure other forms of love.Robert Kaske establishes an alternative theory of theme and structure which elaborates and extends George Lyman Kittredge's famous explanation of the interconnections among these related tales. James Wimsatt explores the allegorical and satiric motifs which Chaucer drew from the Canticle of Canticles, giving particular emphasis to the Merchant's Tale. Literature, Chaucer, English Literature.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 128pp hardback, blue cloth gilt, ex-college library with usual stamps and labels.

Hardcover . Condition: Good. Nbo Dust Jacket. First Edition. First Edition, (viii)+117pp.HARDCOVER, NO DUST JACKET, VERY GOOD CONDITION, EXCELLENT VALUE. UNIVERSITY LIBRARY BOOKPLATE AND INSIGNIFICANT MARKINGS, A BRIGHT CRISP COPY.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good ++. First Edition. These 117 pages - including INDEX - grew out of 1971 symposium on the subject. William Provost writes the introduction, and Edmund h. Duncan the afterword. Four others: Reiss, Wimsatt, Kaske and Eliason cast there eyes back to the 14'th century to understand this famous English poet. UNillustrated. LEARN mor about : Wife of Bath, fabliaux, sponsus, and Kittredge. Cond : Boards are blue with gilt lettering - spine only. End-papers are white. D. J. is buff coloured with brown lettering. Cameo illustration on the dust jacket shows a medieval love tryst. Very slight wear at edges of d.j. which is also price-clipped. Volume is else - shiny, clean, tight,and bright in all ASPECTS. No names, no marks. Quote (p. 19) : "._._. exhaustive analysis, I shall merely list some of Chaucer's ideas about it: (1) Such love is inspired not by wealth, looks, or social position but by character; (2) Sexual gratification is not its sole objective; (3) Nor, except in fiction, is marriage ._._._. ." Size: Octavo.…

Hardcover. Cloth, knocked; frayed & marked dw. 4 essays: N ELiason, E Reiss, R Kaske, J Wimsatt. CHAUCER.