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Chaucer - The Canterbury Tales (Paperback)
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Chaucer - The Canterbury Tales (Paperback)
Series: Longman Critical Readers
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This new addition to the Longman Critical Readers Series provides
an overview of the various ways in which modern critical theory has
influenced Chaucer Studies over the last fifteen years. There is
still a sense in the academic world, and in the wider literary
community, that Medieval Studies are generally impervious to many
of the questions that modern theory asks, and that it concerns
itself only with traditional philological and historical issues. On
the contrary, this book shows how Chaucer, specifically the
Canterbury Tales, has been radically and excitingly 'opened up' by
feminist, Lacanian, Bakhtinian, deconstructive, semiotic and
anthropological theories to name but a few. The book provides an
introduction to these new developments by anthologising some of the
most important work in the field, including excerpts from
book-length works, as well as articles from leading and innovative
journals. The introduction to the volume examines in some detail
the relation between the individual strengths of each of the above
approaches and the ways in which a 'postmodernist' Chaucer is seen
as reflecting them all. This convenient single volume collection of
key critical analyses of Chaucer, which includes work from some
journals and studies that are not always easily available, will be
indispensable to students of Medieval Studies, Medieval Literature
and Chaucer, as well as to general readers who seek to widen their
understanding of the forces behind Chaucer's writing.
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