Chaucer at Work: The Making of The Canterbury Tales

ISBN-13: 9780582013193 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 198 str.

Peter Brown

Opis

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".

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Peter Brown