Contradictions: from Beowulf to Chaucer : Selected Studies of Larry Benson (Hardcover, New ed)

Contents: Introduction; Bibliography of Larry D Benson; The literary character of Anglo-Saxon formulaic poetry; The pagan colouring of Beowulf; The orginality of Beowulf; Chaucer's spelling reconsidered; The order of the Canterbury Tales; The authorship of St Erkenwald; The date of the Alliterative Morte Arthure; The occasion of The Parliament of Fowls; The "Love-Tydynges" in Chaucer's House of Fame; The 'queynte' punnings of Chaucer's critics; The beginnings of Chaucer's English style; The tournament in the Romances of Chretien de Troyes and L’Histoire de Guillaume Le Marechal; Courtly love and chivalry in the late Middle Ages; Tabula gratulatoria; Index.