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    Reading Geoffrey Chaucer: An Introduction

    Reading Geoffrey Chaucer by Meyer-Lee, Robert J.;

    An Introduction

    Series: Reading Literature Today;

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    Short description:

    Reading Geoffrey Chaucer: An Introduction offers students, general readers, and teachers an accessible series of essays on select works by Chaucer that emphasizes how those works? deepest concerns and most fraught complexities remain urgently relevant in our present day. 

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    Long description:

    Reading Geoffrey Chaucer: An Introduction offers students, general readers, and teachers an accessible series of essays on select works by Chaucer that emphasizes how those works? deepest concerns and most fraught complexities remain urgently relevant in our present day. Each chapter connects Chaucer?s world with particular problems of our own, such as autocratic patriarchal social orders and geopolitical religious/racial conflict. Introducing modern critical approaches to those problems ? gender studies and postcolonial theory, for example ? each chapter provides in-depth discussion of how Chaucer explores their nature, implications, and consequences by way of his distinctive literary idiom. Texts covered include the General Prologue of the Canterbury Tales and the tales told by the Knight, Miller, Man of Law, Wife of Bath, Pardoner, and Prioress and the House of Fame, Legend of Good Women, and Troilus and Criseyde. Each chapter is self-contained, supplying essential backgrounds along with full summaries of the works under discussion. But the book is also criss-crossed with recurrent inquiries, which collectively trace some of the most characteristic qualities of Chaucer?s writing. With its unusual combination of breadth and depth, this introduction to Chaucer helps readers at all levels of familiarity appreciate why his work continues to matter.

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    Table of Contents:

    Preface: User Manual for This Book


    Introduction: Why Read Chaucer Now?            


    Chapter 1: The Canterbury Tales: Overview and General Prologue                  


    Chapter 2: The Knight?s and Miller?s Tales  


    Chapter 3: The Man of Law?s Tale      


    Chapter 4: The Wife of Bath?s Tale  


    Chapter 5: The Pardoner?s Tale         


    Chapter 6: The Prioress?s Tale           


    Chapter 7: Dream Visions ? The House of Fame and the Legend of Good Women                  


    Chapter 8: Troilus and Criseyde      

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