Peter Brown (UK Liverpool John Moores University)

Chaucer at Work

The Making of The Canterbury Tales

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The main aim of this text is to advance a method devised through experience of teaching Chaucer's poetry over many years. The method is explained in the introduction, and its underlying objective is a shared experience of reading, and of trying to understand the "Canterbury Tales".

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juni 1994
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 260g
• ISBN-13: 9780582013193
• ISBN-10: 0582013194
• Artikelnr.: 39218116

Autorenporträt

Peter Brown

Inhaltsangabe

PART 1: The general prologue: the pilgrimage controversy Chaucer's
pilgrimage. Two middlemen PART 2: The Knight's tale: a question of context
The idea of imprisonment The vagaries of fortune; the bonds of love
PART 3: The Miller's tale: the portrait of Alisoun Domestic drama PART 4:
The Wife of Bath's prologue and tale: inventing the Wife of Bath The quest
for "gentillesse" PART 5: The Merchant's tale: what's in a name? January's
garden PART 6: The Franklin's tale: the virtues of patience Dorigen's rocks
PART 7: The Pardoner's prologue and tale: the portrait of hypocrisy; dicing
with death PART 8: The Nun's Priest's tale: the play of language; taking
the moral