Essays on Chaucerian Irony.

Cover -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- Seven Kinds of Irony -- The Two Worlds of Geoffrey Chaucer -- English Irony before Chaucer -- Is Chaucer's Irony a Modern Discovery? -- The Beginnings of Chaucer's Irony -- The Inhibited and Uninhibited: Ironic Structure in the Miller's Tale -- 'After his Ymage': The Central Ironies of the Friar's Tale -- Structural Irony within the Summoner's Tale -- Chaucer's 'Gentil' Manciple and his 'Gentil' Tale -- BIBLIOGRAPHIES -- Bibliography to 'Seven Kinds of Irony' -- General bibliography on Chaucer's Irony -- Bibliography on the Miller's Prologue and Tale -- Bibliography on the Friar's Prologue and Tale -- Bibliography on the Summoner's Prologue and Tale -- Bibliography on the Manciple's Prologue and Tale -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

These essays have remained classics of their kind. They include important discussions on irony--its native traditions and its occurrence in early English literature, an account of critics' appreciation of Chaucerian irony prior to this century, and a detailed examination of four of the Canterbury Tales.

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