Geoffrey Chaucer''s the Canterbury Tales - A Casebook

Zusatztext No reader, beginning or advanced, can fail to profit from reading and rereading these excellent critical responses to some of Chaucer's most popular tales. Informationen zum Autor Lee Patterson is Frederick W. Hilles Professor of English and Chair of Medieval Studies at Yale University. Zusammenfassung The ten essays selected for this book illuminate the central themes of the most frequently taught Canterbury Tales. These texts are appropriate for undergraduates and general readers and were edited carefully to ensure that references and allusions are explained in footnotes. Theoretical excursus and critical jousting have been either simplified or omitted entirely. At the end of each essay is an annotated list of further readings. The volumes editor is one of the most distinguished active Chaucerian scholars in the world.

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• Authors: Lee Patterson, Lee (Professor of English Patterson
• Assisted by: Patterson (Editor), Lee Patterson (Editor), Lee (Professor of English Patterson (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.2006
• EAN: 9780195175745
• ISBN: 978-0-19-517574-5
• No. of pages: 252
• Series: Casebooks in Criticism; Casebooks in Criticism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary theory, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets