Title: An Introduction to the "Canterbury Tales"
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.
Subjects: History and criticism, Medieval Tales, Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature, Storytelling in literature, Chaucer, geoffrey, -1400, Pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature, Literature, medieval, history and criticism, Tales, medieval, history and criticism