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The Canterbury tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer / editor, Jack Lynch, Rutgers University.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Critical insights.
- Critical insights
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400. Canterbury tales.
- Chaucer, Geoffrey.
- Canterbury tales (Chaucer, Geoffrey).
- Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature.
- Tales, Medieval--History and criticism.
- Tales, Medieval.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 469 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Pasadena, California : Salem Press, [2011]
- Summary:
- Considered one the English language's most masterful works, Geoffrey Chaucer's series of tales has managed to stay relevant and prominent for more than six hundred years. By combining sharp wit with an acute awareness of human nature, Chaucer produces some of literature's most unforgettable characters, such as the Wife of Bath, the Knight, the Miller, and the Prioress.
- Contents:
- On The Canterbury tales / Jack Lynch
- Biography of Geoffrey Chaucer / Judith Laird
- The Paris review perspective / Benjamin Lytal for The Paris review
- The Canterbury tales: critical reception / Dominick Grace
- Chaucer's inferno: Dantean burlesques in The Canterbury tales / Matthew J. Bolton
- A feminist perspective on The Canterbury tales / Rosemary M. Canfield Reisman
- Chaucer's translation of the fourteenth century / Lewis Walker
- Chaucer the pilgrim / E. Talbot Donaldson
- Chaucer the man / Donald R. Howard
- The art of impersonation: a general prologue to The Canterbury tales / H. Marshall Leicester, Jr.
- "A poet ther was": Chaucer's voices in the general prologue to The Canterbury tales / Barbara Nolan
- Chaucer's idea of a Canterbury game / Glending Olson
- The meaning of Chaucer's Knight's tale / Douglas Brooks and Alastair Fowler
- "And Venus laugheth": an interpretation of the Merchant's tale / Martin Stevens
- Figmenta vs. veritas: Dame Alice and the medieval literary depiction of women by women / Katharina M. Wilson
- Alison's incapacity and poetic instability in the Wife of Bath's tale / Susan Crane
- "The name of Soveraynetee": the private and public faces of marriage in The Franklin's tale / Cathy Hume
- Lumiansky's paradox: ethics, aethetics, and Chaucer's "Prioress's tale" / Greg Wilsbacher
- The bodies of Jews in the late middle ages / Steven F. Kruger
- Naturalism and its discontents in the Miller's tale / Mark Miller
- The pardoner's body and the disciplining of rhetoric / Rita Copeland
- Adventurous Custance: St. Thomas of Acre and Chaucer's Man of law's tale / Lawrence Warner
- Chaucer and the absent city / David Wallace
- The illustrated eighteenth-century Chaucer / Alice Miskimin
- Chronology of Geoffrey Chaucer's life
- Works by Geoffrey Chaucer
- Bibliography.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Canterbury tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer.
- ISBN:
- 9781587657245
- 1587657244
- OCLC:
- 1004242187
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