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The Manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales (Hardcover)
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The Manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales (Hardcover)
Series: Chaucer Studies
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Owen investigates what the manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales
reveal about the way they came into being. [see revs] This study of
the manuscripts of the Canterbury Talescalls into question previous
efforts to explain the complexities, the different orderings of the
tales and the extraordinary shifts in textual affiliations within
the manuscripts. Owen sees the manuscripts that survive, most of
them collections of all or almost all the tales, as derived from
the large number of single tales and small collections that
circulated after Chaucer's death. This theory takes issue with all
modern editions of the Canterbury Tales, which in Owen's view
reflect the effort of medieval scribes and supervisors to make a
satisfactory book of the collection of fragments Chaucer left
behind. It is this collection of fragments, the authentic Tales of
Canterbury by Geoffrey Chaucer, which reflects the different stages
of the plan that was still evolving at his death. CHARLES A. OWEN
Jr is former Professor of English and Chairman of Medieval Studies
at the University of Conneticut.
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