Chaucer at Work
The Making of The Canterbury Tales
Seiten
1994
Longman (Verlag)
978-0-582-01319-3 (ISBN)
Longman (Verlag)
978-0-582-01319-3 (ISBN)
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.
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 |
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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 |
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