乔叟研究
2000-12
上海外语教育出版社
(意)伯以塔尼
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本书是“剑桥文学指南”丛书中的一本，由一组既独立成篇又互为参照的论文构成，撰稿者均为国际知名的乔叟专家。论文大致可以分为两大类别；一类着眼一首或多首乔叟的主要诗作，探讨其主题，风格；另一类则从更广阔的视野着手，追溯其创作的文学渊源、历史背景、风格与结构的
"List of contributors
Preface
Note on the text
1 The social and literary scene in England
2 Chaucers Continental inheritance: The early poems and Troilus and Criseyde
3 Old books brought to life in dreams: The Book of the Duchess, the House of Fame, The Parliament of Fowls
4 Telling the story in Troilus and Criseyde
5 Chance and destiny in Troilus and Criseyde and the Knights Tale
6 The Canterbury Tales I: Romance
7 The Canterbury Tales II: Comedy
8 The Canterbury Tales III: Pathos
9 The Canterbury Tales IV: Exemplum and fable
11 Literary structures in Chaucer
13 Chaucers narrator: Troilus and Criseyde and the Canterbury
14 Chaucers poetic style
15 Further reading: A guide to Chaucer studies
Index"
It is important at this stage to introduce a distinction between the Friar'sand Summoner's tales and the other four （or four-and-a-bit） tales， and toappropriate the technical term fabliau to apply to the latter group. The term is often used broadly for all comic tales oflow life invoMng trickery， but there is much advantage in restricting it， in discussing Chaucer， to the tales involving marriage and sex， and setting aside the Friar's and Sum moner's tales for later discussion. The four tales remaining are capable of quite strict definition as fabliaux， as tales， that is， in which a bourgeois husband is duped or tricked into conniving at the free award of his wife's sexual favours to a clever young man. Such tales are widespread in Euro-pean tradition， and well known from being included in such numbers in Boccaccio's Decameron or in French collections such as the Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles （'A Hundred New Stories'）. There are very few examples in English: indeed， Chaucer's are almost the only examples of the genre as more strictly defined. It was long believed， because of a convenient assumption about social class and social morality， that the fabliaux could only have been enjoyed by the lower classes， or the bour8eoisie at best，but this belief has been shown to be unfounded，and indeed it seems on the face of it unlikely， given that the pillars of petit-bourgeois society ar。constantly the objects of ridicule， and that the humour of the stories often relies on quite a subtle understanding of the courtly behaviour that istravestied. ……
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