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An Introduction to the "Canterbury Tales": Reading, Fiction and Context
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Product Description
This introduction to the "Canterbury Tales" for students is accessible to first time readers of Chaucer and is also a significant critical study in its own right. It gives full separate readings of each tale, together with clear expositions of the historical and literary backgrounds. Using modern theoretical perspectives, the book focuses particularly on gender, political and narratological approaches. The humour in the Tales and Chaucer's gifts for story telling and dialogue are rooted in an extraordinary perceptiveness about timeless subjects such as human vanity, class consciousness, snobbery, rivalry, robust honesty and self-sacrificing love. This book provides both a clear guide to all aspects of the "Canterbury Tales" and insight into why it continues to be of importance to modern readers.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #338365 in Books
- Published on: 1999-12-21
- Original language: English
- Binding: Paperback
- 264 pages
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Contents: Chaucer and the Canterbury Tales
The General Prologue
The Knight's Tale
The Miller's Tale
The Reeve's Tale
The Cook's Tale
The Man of Law's Tale
The Wife of Bath's Tale
The Friar's and Summoner's Tales
The Clerk's Tale
The Merchant's Tale
The Squire's and Franklin's Tale
The Physician's Tale
The Pardoner's Tale
The Shipman's Tale
The Prioress's Tale
Sir Thopas and Melibee
The Monk's Tale
The Nun's Priest's Tale
The Second Nun's Tale
The Canon Yeoman's Tale
The Manciple's Tale
The Parson's Tale
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
HELEN PHILLIPS is Lecturer in English at the University of Glamorgan.
