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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/33818820 Title: The Canterbury tales Author: <span class=vernacular lang="en">קופר, הלן,</span> ; Helen Cooper Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1996. ISBN/ISSN: 0198711557 9780198711551 OCLC:33818820

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The Canterbury tales

Author:	קופר, הלן, ; Helen Cooper
Publisher:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.
Series:	Oxford guides to Chaucer.
Edition/Format:	Book : English : 2nd edView all editions and formats
Summary:	"This edition incorporates a broader representation of the most significant recent scholarship and criticism, reflecting current research into Chaucer's historical and social context and developments in the interpretation of Chaucer's presentation of women." "The book is the most comprehensive single-volume guide to the Tales yet produced, bringing together a wide range of disparate material and providing a readable Read more...
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Named Person:	Geoffrey Chaucer; Geoffrey Chaucer; Geoffrey Chaucer; Geoffrey Chaucer
Document Type:	Book
All Authors / Contributors:	קופר, הלן, ; Helen Cooper Find more information about:
ISBN:	0198711557 9780198711551
OCLC Number:	33818820
Description:	439 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents:	The Canterbury tales -- The general prologue -- The knight's tale -- The miller's tale -- The reeve's tale -- The cook's tale -- The man of law's tale -- The wife of Bath's prologue -- The wife of Bath's tale -- The friar's tale -- The summoner's tale -- The clerk's tale -- The merchant's tale -- The squire's tale -- The franklin's tale -- The physician's tale -- The pardoner's prologue and tale -- The shipman's tale -- The prioress's tale -- The tale of Sir Thopas -- The tale of Melibee -- The monk's tale -- The nun's priest's tale -- The second nun's tale -- The canon's yeoman's tale -- The manciple's tale -- The parson's tale -- Chaucer's retractions -- Imitations of the Canterbury tales 1400-1615.
Series Title:	Oxford guides to Chaucer.
Responsibility:	Helen Cooper.
More information:	Publisher description Contributor biographical information Inhaltsverzeichnis

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"This edition incorporates a broader representation of the most significant recent scholarship and criticism, reflecting current research into Chaucer's historical and social context and developments in the interpretation of Chaucer's presentation of women." "The book is the most comprehensive single-volume guide to the Tales yet produced, bringing together a wide range of disparate material and providing a readable commentary on all aspects of the work. It combines the comprehensive coverage of a reference book with the coherence of a critical account and, since its first publication in 1989, has established itself as a standard work on the Tales."--BOOK JACKET.

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Good comprehensive study of Chaucer's Canterbury, balanced

by vleighton (WorldCat user published 2008-06-04) Excellent

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A one volume overview of the Canterbury Tales. It reviews the literature current as of 1996. It is considered an excellent study even as of the year 2005. The text is not substantially different from the first edition, so if you have the first edition, you basically have the current text, without a few newer references and corrected citations. There seems to be a wide spectrum of perspectives on Chaucer, with a broad shift in prevailing opinion through the course of the 20th century. Kittredge in the early 20th century lead the view that Chaucer was a representative of a proto-naturalism, celebrating worldly human nature in a way reminiscent of early 20th century modern novels and maturing beyond stiff medieval convention. Muscatine in the 1950's was part of a tradition that rejected that view, and showed that he interwove courtly convention with bourgeois naturalism for various effects throughout his career. In 1976, Alfred David struck back with "The Strumpet Muse", arguing that Chaucer's works celebrate the carnal even if Chaucer consciously was not intending to portray such celebration. Therefore, David has a bit of a postmodern perspective that the text should be interpreted separately from the intentions of the author. Pearsall and Olson seem to represent a backlash against postmodern interpretations of the text that deviate from the author's apparent intentions and reject a unity of the viewpoint of Chaucer's works. Cooper tries to straddle the debate. She accepts most of the more conservative perspective that Chaucer knew what he was about, but she also accepts the Bakhtinian interpretation that there is a theme of carnivalesque rejection of the official viewpoint within the Canterbury Tales. This book is considered by some scholars to be the current most comprehensive scholarly review of the state of understanding of the Canterbury Tales. Organized by tale and by character in the general prologue, it can be readily used as a reference book by a student who only wants to study one tale or pilgrim.

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