How Long to Read Oxford Guides to Chaucer: Troilus and Criseyde

How Long Does it Take to Read Oxford Guides to Chaucer: Troilus and Criseyde?

It takes the average reader 8 hours and 10 minutes to read Oxford Guides to Chaucer: Troilus and Criseyde by Barry Windeatt

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

This is a comprehensive critical guide to Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde. This new edition has been comprehensively revised in light of the latest scholarly and critical research and with a fully updated bibliography. It includes a full account of Chaucer's imaginative deployment of his sources, and an extended survey of this narrative poem's innovative combination of a range of generic identities. The chapters explain how Chaucer builds thematic significance into his poem's symmetrical structure, and the poem's distinctive variety in style and language, as well as a full commentary on the poem's concerns with love in the contexts of time and mutability and human free will. The Guide explores the poem as an extended debate about the nature and value of love, and how love was conceptualized and experienced as a form of service in quest of compassionate reward, a quasi-religious devotion, and a potentially fatal illness always in hope of cure. The subjectivities of the chief protagonists are fully analysed, as is the poem's problematic ending. Alongside discussions of theme and structure, there is also an account of what the extant manuscripts of Troilus and Criseyde may reveal about the poem's early genesis, and a unique survey of responses to Troilus from its own times to the present day. Barry Windeatt's contribution to the series is a comprehensive single-volume guide to Troilus and Criseyde, bringing together a wide range of material and providing a readable commentary on all aspects of the work. Combining the informative substance of a reference book with the coherence of a critical reading, the Guide has taken its place as the standard introduction to Troilus and Criseyde since its first publication in 1992.

How long is Oxford Guides to Chaucer: Troilus and Criseyde?

Oxford Guides to Chaucer: Troilus and Criseyde by Barry Windeatt is 477 pages long, and a total of 122,589 words.

This makes it 161% the length of the average book. It also has 150% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Oxford Guides to Chaucer: Troilus and Criseyde Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 11 hours and 9 minutes to read Oxford Guides to Chaucer: Troilus and Criseyde aloud.

What Reading Level is Oxford Guides to Chaucer: Troilus and Criseyde?

Oxford Guides to Chaucer: Troilus and Criseyde is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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