An Introduction To the Canterbury Tales
Subtitle: Fiction, Writing, Context
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: February 12, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780312227395
Subjects: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Medieval; Poetry; Chaucer, Geoffrey; Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literat; Literary Criticism / Poetry; Literary Criticism-English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism-Medieval; Poetry / General; Chaucer, Geoffrey, D.1400; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Canterbury tales; Chaucer, Geoffrey,; Christian pilgrims and pilgrim; Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature; History and criticism; Storytelling in literature; Tales, Medieval; d. 1400
First sentence: That is how the promotional material for the 1998 animated film of The Canterbury Tales sums up its contents.
Description: "An Introduction to the Canterbury Tales provides both an accessible overview of the Tales for the student and a major, new critical study. It contains full readings of each tale, together with clear exposition of their historical and literary context. Modern theoretical approaches to Chaucer are explored - particularly with reference to gender, politics, fictionality, and narration - as well as critical views from the past Chaucer's popular image as a bawdy humorist and a proto-novelist is re-evaluated."--Jacket.