The Canterbury Tales : a literary pilgrimage / David Williams. [print]

By:

Williams, David (David Eliot), 1939- [Author]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780805779523
9780805780048

Subject(s):

LOC classification:

PR1874.W722.C368 1987
PR1874

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Contents:

2. The Canterbury tales and the tradition of English literature. The importance of the work ; Critical reception -- 3. The philosophical debate -- 4. Finding the audience -- 5. The general prologue -- 6. Language redeemed. The miller's tale ; The wife of Bath's tale ; The pardoner's tale ; The nun's priest's tale -- 7. Conclusion.

Subject: Unravels the complex interplay of the realistic, the grotesque, and the sublime, and discusses the multiplicity of meanings held within narrative and poetic forms.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status)	G. Allen Fleece Library CIRCULATING COLLECTION	Non-fiction	PR1874.W55 1987 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		31923001673397

1. Historical context. The fourteenth century ; The intellectual milieu -- 2. The Canterbury tales and the tradition of English literature. The importance of the work ; Critical reception -- 3. The philosophical debate -- 4. Finding the audience -- 5. The general prologue -- 6. Language redeemed. The miller's tale ; The wife of Bath's tale ; The pardoner's tale ; The nun's priest's tale -- 7. Conclusion.

Unravels the complex interplay of the realistic, the grotesque, and the sublime, and discusses the multiplicity of meanings held within narrative and poetic forms.

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