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  • [Chaucer, Geoffrey] Frank, Robert Worth, Jr.
    CHAUCER AND THE LEGEND OF GOOD WOMEN.

    Edition: First printing.

    Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 972. dj, 1386. Hardcover first edition - A fresh and detailed assessment of Chaucer's "The Legend of Good Women" (probably begun in 1386, after he had finished 'Troilus and Criseyde' and before 'The Canterbury Tales'), a work almost unknown, usually ignored except for the prologue, and often dismissed as a 'fragmentary failure.' Yet according to Frank, this work, containing nine stories about such women of antiquity as Cleopatra, Dido, Thisbe, Ariadne. Lucrece, Medea and Hypermnestrae, also marked Chaucer's movement into pure narrative poetry - a move which culminated in his masterpiece. Index. ix, 219 pp. ISBN: 0-674111907.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 32602
    Keywords: Ariadne. Lucrece, Cleopatra, Dido, Hypermnestrae, Literary criticism and theory, Medea, narrative poetry, Thisbe
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  • FOR HER DARK SKIN. by Everett, Percival.
    Everett, Percival.
    FOR HER DARK SKIN.

    Edition: First printing.

    Seattle: Owl Creek Press, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - A tautly constructed satirical treatment of the Medea myth which explores its relationship to questions both of race and gender as told in the voices of Medea, her nurse, Jason, Polydeuces and Tamar. Early in the story, Medea comments on Jason "That he was not overly bright was apparent, though he was a talker I would not have let him touch me, but the gods... not even my gods, but some chalk-skinned, bitch voyeur caused me to fall in love with this Jason." Anyone who has read Everett's novel 'Erasure" (basis of the film 'American Fiction') will recognize the autobiographical element in that novel. Hard to find, especially in…

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    Seattle: Owl Creek Press, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - A tautly constructed satirical treatment of the Medea myth which explores its relationship to questions both of race and gender as told in the voices of Medea, her nurse, Jason, Polydeuces and Tamar. Early in the story, Medea comments on Jason "That he was not overly bright was apparent, though he was a talker I would not have let him touch me, but the gods... not even my gods, but some chalk-skinned, bitch voyeur caused me to fall in love with this Jason." Anyone who has read Everett's novel 'Erasure" (basis of the film 'American Fiction') will recognize the autobiographical element in that novel. Hard to find, especially in the first edition. 152 pp. Dust jacket illustration by Shere C. Everett. ISBN: 0-937699458.

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    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 88507
    Keywords: African American Literature, greek myths, jason argonauts, medea, mythology, myths
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