The Cambridge companion to ''The Canterbury tales''
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The Cambridge companion to ''The Canterbury tales''
(Cambridge companions to literature)
Cambridge University Press, 2020
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The Cambridge companion to The Canterbury tales
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
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Chaucer's best-known poem, The Canterbury Tales, is justly celebrated for its richness and variety, both literary - the Tales include fabliaux, romances, sermons, hagiographies, fantasies, satires, treatises, fables and exempla - and thematic, with its explorations of courtly love and scatology, piety and impiety, chivalry and pacifism, fidelity and adultery. Students new to Chaucer will find in this Companion a lively introduction to the poem's diversity, depth, and wonder. Readers returning to the Tales will appreciate the chapters' fresh engagement with the individual tales and their often complicated critical histories, inflected in recent decades by critical approaches attentive to issues of gender, sexuality, class, and language.
Table of Contents
- 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.
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