1st Edition

Chaucer The Canterbury Tales

By Geoffrey Chaucer, Steve Ellis Copyright 1998
256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

This new addition to the Longman Critical Readers Series provides an overview of the various ways in which modern critical theory has influenced Chaucer Studies over the last fifteen years. There is still a sense in the academic world, and in the wider literary community, that Medieval Studies are generally impervious to many of the questions that modern theory asks, and that it concerns itself... Read more
Publishers Acknowledgements.  Editor's Acknowledgements.  Editions and Abbreviations Used in the Text.  1. Introduction  2. H. MARSHALL LEICESTER, JR, Structure as Deconstruction: 'Chaucer and Estates Satire' in the 'General Prologue', or Reading Chaucer as a Prologue to the History of Disenchantment  3. MARK A. SHERMAN, The Politics of Discourse in Chaucer's 'Knight's Tale'  4. PEGGY KNAPP, Robyn the Miller's Thrifty Work  5. CAROLYN DINSHAW, The Law of Man and its 'Abhomynacions'  6. ARTHUR LINDLEY, 'Vanysshed Was This Daunce, He Nyste Where': Alisoun's Absence in the 'Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale'  7. ELAINE TUTTLE HANSEN, The Powers of Silence: the Case of the Clerk's Griselda  8. CAROLYN P. COLLETTE, Umberto Eco, Semiotics, and the 'Merchant's Tale'  9. JOHN STEPHENS & MARCELLA RYAN, Metafictional Strategies and the Theme of Sexual Power in the Wife of Bath's and Frankiln's Tales  10. LEE PATTERSON, The Subject of Confession: the Pardoner and the Rhetoric of Penance  11. ELIZABETH ROBERTSON, Aspects of Female Piety in the 'Prioress's Tale'  12. BRITTON J. HARWOOD, Signs and / as Origin: Chaucer's 'Nun's Priest's Tale'  13. PAUL STROHM, A Mixed Commonwealth of Style  Further Reading.  Index

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Geoffrey Chaucer, Steve Ellis