Critical Insights: The Canterbury Tales

Publisher Salem Press

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2nd Edition 1st Edition

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Salem Press

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Copyright

2010

ISBN13

9781587657245

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eBook

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9th Grade - College Senior

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Overview

The essays in this set discuss several individual tales, including the Knight's Tale, the recurring use of irony in The Merchant's Tale, a feminist reading of The Wife of Bath's Tale, the idea of gender and eroticism in The Miller's Tale, and the anti-semitism and representation of the Jews in The Prioress' Tale.

Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
About This Volume.
The Book and Author.
1: On The Canterbury Tales.
2: Biography of Geoffrey Chaucer.
3: The Paris Review Perspective.
Critical Contexts.
4: The Canterbury Tales: Critical Reception.
5: Chaucer's Inferno: Dantean Burlesques in The Canterbury Tales.
6: A Feminist Perspective on The Canterbury Tales.
7: Chaucer's Translation of the Fourteenth Century.
Critical Readings.
8: Chaucer the Pilgrim.
9: Chaucer the Man.
10: The Art of Impersonation: A General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales.
11: “A Poet Ther Was”: Chaucer's Voices in the General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales.
12: Chaucer's Idea of a Canterbury Game.
13: The Meaning of Chaucer's Knight's Tale.
14: “And Venus Laugheth”: An Interpretation of the Merchant's Tale.
15: Figmenta vs. Veritas: Dame Alice and the Medieval Literary Depiction of Women by Women.
16: Alison's Incapacity and Poetic Instability in the Wife of Bath's Tale.
17: “The Name of Soveraynetee”: The Private and Public Faces of Marriage in The Franklin's Tale.
18: Lumiansky's Paradox: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Chaucer's “Prioress's Tale”.
19: The Bodies of Jews in the Late Middle Ages.
20: Naturalism and Its Discontents in the Miller's Tale.
21: The Pardoner's Body and the Disciplining of Rhetoric.
22: Adventurous Custance: St. Thomas of Acre and Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale.
23: Chaucer and the Absent City.
24: The Illustrated Eighteenth-Century Chaucer.
Resources.
25: Chronology of Geoffrey Chaucer's Life.
26: Works by Geoffrey Chaucer.
27: Bibliography.
Critical Insights.
About the Editor.
About The Paris Review.
Contributors.
Acknowledgments.
Index.

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