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Description: This fresh and comprehensive guide introduces readers to Chaucer’s life and times and his cultural and literary world, as well as reviewing the publishing history of the Tales and examining issues surrounding the nature of the material production of medieval texts. A highly readable survey of the critical reception of the Tales, from early responses to recent critical perspectives, works together with a series of exemplary, close readings of key tales to explore questions such as ‘Englishness’. narrative voice, genre, language and form, gender and authority.
This introduction to the text is the ideal companion to study, offering guidance on:
• Literary and historical context
• Language, style and form
• Reading the text
• Critical reception and publishing history
• Adaptation and interpretation
• Further reading
Content: Contexts • Language, Style and Form • Reading The Canterbury Tales • Critical Reception and publishing history • afterlives • Further reading • Index ISBN - 9781846841705
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Pages : 128
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