Cambridge Companion to the Canterbury Tales

A lively and accessible introduction to the variety, depth, and wonder of Chaucer's best-known poem.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Frank Grady is Professor and Chair of English at the University of Missouri-St Louis. He is a former editor of Studies in the Age of Chaucer (2002–07), author of Representing Righteous Heathens in Late Medieval England (2005), and co-editor of Answerable Style: The Idea of the Literary in Medieval England (2013; with Andrew Galloway) and the revised edition of the MLA's Approaches to Teaching Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (2014; with Peter Travis).

Zusammenfassung

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.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: FRANK GRADY, Grady Frank Grady, Frank Grady, Frank (University of Missouri Grady
• Mitarbeit: Frank Grady (Herausgeber), Grady Frank (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 31.05.2020
• EAN: 9781107181007
• ISBN: 978-1-107-18100-7
• Seiten: 320
• Serien: Cambridge Companions to Litera; Cambridge Companions to Literature
• Themen: Belletristik > Lyrik, Dramatik > Lyrik; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Mittelalter; Medieval History, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Poetry by individual poets, Literary essays, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Literary companions, book reviews & guides, Literary companions, book reviews and guides, Middle English