An Introduction To the Canterbury Tales: Fiction, Writing, Context - Softcover

Phillips, Helen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 031222740X ISBN 13: 9780312227401

Verlag: Palgrave, 2000

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Book by Phillips Helen

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Reseña del editor:

This introduction to the Canterbury Tales is accessible to first-time readers of Chaucer and is also a significant critical study in its own right. It gives full separate readings of each tale, together with clear expositions of the historical and literary backgrounds. Using modern theoretical perspectives, the book focuses particularly on gender, political and narratological approaches. The humour in the Tales and Chaucer's gifts for story-telling and dialogue are rooted in an extraordinary perceptiveness about timeless subjects such as human vanity, class-consciousness, snobbery, rivalry, robust honesty and self-sacrificing love. This book provides both a clear guide to all aspects of the Canterbury Tales and insight into why it continues to be of importance to modern readers.

Biografía del autor:

HELEN PHILLIPS is Professor of English Studies at Cardiff University, UK.

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• Verlag: Palgrave
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 031222740X
• ISBN 13: 9780312227401
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 262