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Longman Critical Readers Ser.: Chaucer : The Canterbury Tales by Steve Ellis and Geoffrey Chaucer (1998, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherRoutledge

ISBN-100582248817

ISBN-139780582248816

eBay Product ID (ePID)822968

Product Key Features

Number of Pages256 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameChaucer : the Canterbury Tales

Publication Year1998

SubjectGeneral, Ancient & Classical, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Poetry

AuthorSteve Ellis, Geoffrey Chaucer

SeriesLongman Critical Readers Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight16 Oz

Item Length8.7 in

Item Width7.4 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

Dewey Edition21

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal821.1

Table Of ContentPublishers 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

SynopsisThis 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 only with traditional philological and historical issues. On the contrary, this book shows how Chaucer, specifically the Canterbury Tales , has been radically and excitingly 'opened up' by feminist, Lacanian, Bakhtinian, deconstructive, semiotic and anthropological theories to name but a few. The book provides an introduction to these new developments by anthologising some of the most important work in the field, including excerpts from book-length works, as well as articles from leading and innovative journals. The introduction to the volume examines in some detail the relation between the individual strengths of each of the above approaches and the ways in which a 'postmodernist' Chaucer is seen as reflecting them all. This convenient single volume collection of key critical analyses of Chaucer, which includes work from some journals and studies that are not always easily available, will be indispensable to students of Medieval Studies, Medieval Literature and Chaucer, as well as to general readers who seek to widen their understanding of the forces behind Chaucer's writing., Steve Ellis shows how the Canterbury Tales has been radically opened up by modern critical theory. The book provides an introduction to a wide range of theoretical approaches to Chaucer, including the feminist, Lacanian, Bakhtinian, deconstructive, semiotic and anthropological schools.