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Title:

Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury tales / edited & with an introduction by Harold Bloom.

Publisher:

Bloom's Literary Criticism,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

118 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Chaucer, Geoffrey,--d. 1400.--Canterbury tales.
Tales, Medieval--History and criticism.

Other Authors:

Bloom, Harold.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 102-108) and index.

Contents:

Introduction -- Biographical sketch -- The story behind the story -- List of characters -- Summary and analysis -- Critical views. G.K. Chesterton on Chaucer's greatness -- Arthur W. Hoffman on the Opening lines of the Prologue -- E.T. Donaldson on Chaucer the poet and pilgrim -- Paul G. Ruggiers on Chaucerian comedy -- V.A. Kolve on Chaucer's Fabliaux -- Alcuin Blamires on Excess and restraint in the Tales -- Winthrop Wetherbee on the Absence of order -- Anne Laskaya on Chaucer and competition -- Derek Brewer on the Miller's tale -- Helen Phillips on Intentional diversity in the Tales -- John C. Hirsch on Love and death in the Knight's tale -- C. David Benson on the First two tales -- Seth Lerer on the Philosophical question of the Tales -- Lee Patterson on Chaucer as creator of English tradition -- Works by Geoffrey Chaucer -- Annotated bibliography -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

Series:

Bloom's guides

ISBN:

0791097927 (hbk.)
9780791097922 (hbk.) :

OCLC:

(OCoLC)166382584

LCCN:

2007048753

Locations:

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)