Chaucer
Subtitle: Contemporary Critical Essays (New Casebooks)
Contributors: Valerie Allen (Editor); Ares Axiotis (Editor)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: April 15, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780312162597
Subjects: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Chaucer, Geoffrey; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; Chaucer, Geoffrey, D.1400; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Chaucer, Geoffrey,; Civilization, Medieval, in lit; Civilization, Medieval, in literature; Criticism and interpretation; d. 1400; Literary Criticism
Description: Over the last few decades, literary criticism has come increasingly to consider its relation to politics, socio-economics, gender, psychoanalysis, language and cultural values. Chaucer's most popular and widely studied work, the Canterbury Tales, boasts a body of criticism which well reflects the diversity of scholarly readings, from the New Critical to the postmodern.

The essays gathered here offer the student some of the best and most provocative readings of the Tales as well as a wide-range of critical approaches. The editors' introduction outlines these developing schools of Chaucerian criticism against the background of the history of literary criticism itself, giving students an illuminating context in which to assess the complex and rewarding work of this great poet.