At last available in a single volume: comprehensive overviews and
concise analyses of the key critical texts and approaches to the
most-studied works of literature. By assembling extracts from
essays, reviews, and articles, the columbia critical guides provide
students with ready access to the most important secondary writings
on one or more texts by a given writer.
each volume:
-- Offers a balanced and nuanced approach to criticism, drawing
on a wide array of British and American sources -- Explains
criticism in terms of key approaches, allowing students to grasp
the central issues for each work -- Is edited by a noted scholar
who specializes in the writer or work in question -- Includes notes
and a comprehensive bibliography and index.
The General Prologue to the canterbury tales has long been
central to the English literary canon. Jodi-Anne George provides a
detailed introduction to the most important critical debates
surrounding The General Prologue.
The extracts and essays included here date from as early as
1368, when Eustace Deschamps paid the first recorded tribute to
Chaucer's genius, and move chronologically through to the late
1990s. The selections address the opinions of early editors of
Chaucer as well as the continuing interest in the poet by other
writers throughout the ages. Sociological, gender-based,
historical, and structural readings of The General Prologue are
also represented.
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