Chaucer and His English Contemporaries: Prologue and Tale in The Canterbury Tales by W. A. Davenport epub fb2 djvu
Author: | W. A. Davenport |
Title: | Chaucer and His English Contemporaries: Prologue and Tale in The Canterbury Tales |
ISBN: | 0312214391 |
ISBN13: | 978-0312214395 |
Other Formats: | lrf lit doc lrf |
Pages: | 255 pages |
Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan (April 15, 1998) |
Language: | English |
Size EPUB version: | 1359 kb |
Size FB2 version: | 1554 kb |
Category: | Literature & Fiction |
Subcategory: | History & Criticism |
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Modern ways of presenting Chaucer have often made his work seem "normal," so that The Canterbury Tales and its much-studied General Prologue are seen as archetypes of narrative and prologue. The author of this book argues that study of Chaucer's major work alongside contemporary English poems reveals the odd and extreme aspects of Chaucer's writing as well as the daring and experimental qualities in his work. The focus of the book is on strategies of narrative and discourse, but it includes discussion of famous middle English poems--Confessio Amantis, Piers Plowman, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, --and some less familiar romances, such as Gamelyn and Emaré, as well as the idea of the tale-collection.