Chaucer at Work

The Making of The Canterbury Tales

Peter Brown (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

1994
Longman (Verlag)
978-0-582-01319-3 (ISBN)

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The main aim of this text is to advance a method devised through experience of teaching Chaucer's poetry over many years. The method is explained in the introduction, and its underlying objective is a shared experience of reading, and of trying to understand the "Canterbury Tales".

Chaucer at Work is a new kind of introduction to the Canterbury Tales. It avoids excessive amounts of background information and involves the reader in the discovery of how Chaucer composed his famous work. It presents a series of sources and contexts to be considered in conjunction with key passages from Chaucer's poems. It includes sets of questions to encourage the reader to examine the text in detail and to build on his or her observations. This well-informed and practical guide will prove invaluable reading to those studying medieval literature at undergraduate level and English literature at A level.

Peter Brown

PART 1: The general prologue: the pilgrimage controversy
Chaucer's pilgrimage. Two middlemen

PART 2: The Knight's tale: a question of context
The idea of imprisonment
The vagaries of fortune; the bonds of love

PART 3: The Miller's tale: the portrait of Alisoun
Domestic drama

PART 4: The Wife of Bath's prologue and tale: inventing the Wife of Bath
The quest for "gentillesse"

PART 5: The Merchant's tale: what's in a name?
January's garden

PART 6: The Franklin's tale: the virtues of patience
Dorigen's rocks

PART 7: The Pardoner's prologue and tale: the portrait of hypocrisy; dicing with death

PART 8: The Nun's Priest's tale: the play of language; taking the moral

Erscheint lt. Verlag	27.6.1994
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	139 x 216 mm
Gewicht	261 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-582-01319-4 / 0582013194
ISBN-13	978-0-582-01319-3 / 9780582013193
Zustand	Neuware