Chaucer Criticism, Volume 1
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Chaucer Criticism, Volume 1

The Canterbury Tales

  1. 320 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Chaucer Criticism, Volume 1

The Canterbury Tales

About this book

Eighteen varied yet strikingly complementary approaches to The Canterbury Tales challenge the reader to fuller appreciation of Chaucer's art both in its formal aspects and in its larger human implications. Numerous artistic and historical problems are treated in these essays, including the narrative point of view established by Chaucer the pilgrim, the possible architectonic function of The Parson's Tale, the medieval controversy over the friars, the pronouncements of the medieval church on the Jews, and the socio-economic background of the fourteenth century. This anthology is distinct not only because of the excellence of individual selections but also in the fact that the selections, though diverse in origin and approach, together contribute to a unifying view of the Canterbury Tales and to a just evaluation of Chaucer's full stature among the giants of literature.

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Yes, you can access Chaucer Criticism, Volume 1 by R.J. Schoeck, R.J. Schoeck,Jerome Taylor in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Literatur & Europäische Geschichte des Mittelalters. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half title
  3. Copyright
  4. Preface
  5. CONTENTS
  6. E. E. Cummings
  7. Longfellow
  8. 1. Chaucer the Pilgrim
  9. 2. The Unity of The Canterbury Tales
  10. 3. Daun Piers, Monk and Business Administrator
  11. 4. Chaucer and the Friars
  12. 5. Chaucer’s Symbolic Plowman
  13. 6. An Interpretation of Chaucer's Knight's Tale
  14. 7. Characterization in The Millers Tale
  15. 8. Chaucer's Discussion of Marriage
  16. 9. The Clerk's Tale: The Monsters and the Critics
  17. 10. Chaucer's Merchant's Tale
  18. 11. The Progress of Chaucer's Pardoner, 1880-1940
  19. 12. Chaucer's Pardoner, The Scriptural Eunuch, and The Pardoner's Tale
  20. 13. Chaucer's Prioress: Mercy and Tender Heart
  21. 14. The Canon's Yeoman's Tale
  22. 15. Chaucer and the Rhetoricians
  23. 16. Was Chaucer A Laodicean?