The Cambridge Companion to The Canterbury Tales

Herausgeber: Grady, Frank

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This selection of essays delivers an accessible introduction to the variety, depth, and wonder of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Fresh engagement with the individual tales provides a lively and provocative guide to arguably the most important text in the teaching of medieval literature.

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Produktdetails

• Cambridge Companions to Literature
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. September 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 153mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 442g
• ISBN-13: 9781316632437
• ISBN-10: 1316632431
• Artikelnr.: 58864088

Autorenporträt

University of Missouri, St Louis

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
List of contributors
Preface
Note on the text
Chronology
List of abbreviations
1. The form of the Canterbury tales Marion Turner
2. Manuscripts, scribes, circulation Simon Horobin
3. The general prologue Steven Justice
4. The knight's tale and the estrangements of form Mark Miller
5. The miller's tale and the art of solaas Maura Nolan
6. The man of law's tale Catherine Sanok
7. The wife of bath's prologue and tale Elizabeth Scala
8. The friar's tale and the summoner's tale in word and deed David K. Coley
9. Griselda and the problem of the human in the clerk's tale Holly A. Crocker
10. The franklin's symptomatic sursanure Peter W. Travis
11. The pardoner and his tale Kathy Lavezzo
12. The prioress's tale Steven F. Kruger
13. The nun's priest's tale Mishtooni Bose
14. Moral Chaucer Frank Grady
15. Chaucer's sense of an ending Patricia Clare Ingham and Anthony Bale
16. Postscript: How to talk about Chaucer with your friends and colleagues
Reading Chaucer: Easier than you think? David Matthews
Scholarship or distraction? new forums for talking about Chaucer Ruth Evans
Talking about Chaucer with school teachers David Raybin
Who will pay? Stephanie Trig
Further reading, Index.