Readings on the Canterbury tales / Don Nardo, book editor.

Contributor Nardo, Don, 1947-

Imprint:San Diego, CA : Greenhaven Press, c1997.

Description192 p. ; 23 cm.

Note:Where did Chaucer get his idea for The Canterbury tales / Donald R. Howard. - Chaucer's use of a game as the inner framework for the tales / Glending Olson. - The use of the narrator in the Canterbury tales / Dieter Mehl. - The symbolic time frame of the Canterbury journey / Sigmund Eisner. - Chaucer's language and verse / M.W. Grose. - The theme of religious pilgrimage in the Canterbury tales / Esther C. Quinn. - Social rank in the Canterbury tales / Donald R. Howard. - The theme of marriage in the Canterbury tales / G.L. Kittridge. - Technology and deception in the Canterbury tales / Joyce T. Lionarons. - Romance in the Canterbury tales / J.A. Burrow. - Sketches of the characters in the Canterbury tales / Marchette Chute. - The Knight's tale: a stately story of uneven justice / Michael Stevens. - Chaucer's Prioress in real life / Eileen Power. - The churlish miller's vulgar tale / Margaret Hallissy. - The moral of the Nun's Priest's tale / Saul N. Brody. - The "blockhead" pilgrim Chaucer and his two tales / Trevor Whittock. - The Pardoner's tale: a quest for death / Michael Hoy.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. [184]-186) and index.

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