The Cambridge Companion to the Canterbury Tales

Chaucer's best-known poem, The Canterbury Tales, is justly celebrated for its richness and variety, both literary - the Tales include fabliaux, romances, sermons, hagiographies, fantasies, satires, treatises, fables and exempla - and thematic, with its explorations of courtly love and scatology, piety and impiety, chivalry and pacifism, fidelity and adultery. Students new to Chaucer will find in this Companion a lively introduction to the poem's diversity, depth, and wonder. Readers returning to the Tales will appreciate the chapters' fresh engagement with the individual tales and their often complicated critical histories, inflected in recent decades by critical approaches attentive to issues of gender, sexuality, class, and language.

Author: Frank Grady
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 09/10/2020
Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.87lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.62d
ISBN: 9781316632437