Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury tales
Subtitle: a casebook
By: edited by Lee Patterson.
Contributors: Patterson, Lee.
Series: Casebooks in criticism
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9780195175738; 9780195175745
Subjects: Chaucer, Geoffrey, -- d. 1400; Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature; Tales, Medieval -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-241).
Table of contents: title: The general prologue and estates literature / Jill Mann; title: "The struggle between noble designs and chaos": the literary tradition of Chaucer's Knight's tale / Roberty W. Hanning; title: Nature, youth, and Nowell's flood / V. A. Kolve; title: Of a fire in the dark: public and private feminism in the Wife of Bath's tale / H. Marshall Leicester, Jr.; title: Imagery, structure, and theme in Chaucer's Merchant's tale / Karl Wentersdorf; title: Pleasure and responsibility in the Franklin's tale / Harry Berger, Jr.; title: The Pardoner's dilemma / Lee Patterson; title: Empathy and enmity in the Prioress's tale / Stephen Spector; title: A reading of the Nun's Priest's tale / Derek Pearsall; title: The Nun's Priest's metamorphosis of scholastic discourse / Jim Rhodes.