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Oct.15.1999
Published by Library Journal
This book-length study of "The Tale of Sir Thopas" is the second of a proposed three-volume explication of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Cullen's (Chaucer's Host) method of...
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Oct.01.1998
Published by The Midwest Book Review
Like many enduring works of art, The Canterbury Tales has been subjected to new interpretations over the years. Important and respected scholars have dissected and discussed the...
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Nov.01.2000
Published by The Bookwatch
Anyone studying the Canterbury Tales will find this a fun examination of Chaucer, providing a fresh new look at Chaucer's intentions and the scholarly debates about his works....
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Feb.01.2004
Published by Scientia Scholae
The concept is admirable to render Middle English less threatening by transcribing familiar titles and expressions into Middle English spelling. Cullen accurately translates from...
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It is tempting, but unwise, to underestimate the work of Dolores Cullen. Her direct style, her unaffected enthusiasm for the obscure reaches of Middle English, her openly celebratory approach to Chaucer as the poet who changed her life--this kind of thing is anathema to modern English literature scholars. . . . Luckily for us, she tells it straight, in language aimed at the common reader. . . . Not surprisingly, this account of how [the Tales] came to be written takes the reader on an utterly exhilarating literary adventure.”
—Foreword to Ensnared by His Words--from Clare Asquith, author of Shadowplay
About dolores
I became fascinated with Chaucer as a late-in-life college student. I've written 3 books about the Canterbury Tales and 2 more --one that promotes reading Middle English, and one about my Chaucer research adventure. My aim is to show there is a deeper, truly...
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dolores’s Favorite Books
The Play Called Corpus Christi, The Writing Life, Writing with Power, Allegory: the Theory of a Symbolic Mode, Geoffrey Chaucer by J. L. Lowes
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