Chaucer: The Canterbury TalesSteve Ellis Provides an overview of the various ways in which modern critical theory has impacted on Chaucer studies in the 15 years up to 1998. The text anthologizes some of the most important critical work in the field and provides an introduction which considers Chaucer and Postmodernism. |
Contents
MARK A SHERMAN The Politics of Discourse | 42 |
PEGGY KNAPP Robyn the Millers Thrifty Work | 62 |
CAROLYN DINSHAW The Law of Man and | 78 |
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Alisoun antifeminism Arcite argues audience Bakhtin Bath's Tale Canterbury Canterbury Tales Chaucer Review Chaucerian Chauntecleer Chauntecleer's Christian Clerk Clerk's Tale Constance Constance's context critics culture deconstruction Derrida desire Dinshaw discourse disenchanted disenchantment dominant Dorigen ELAINE TUTTLE HANSEN English essay example exegetical Exemplaria fabliau fact female Femenye feminine feminist fiction Franklin's Tale gender Griselda Hansen husbands ideology incest interpretation Jankyn Knight's Tale language Law's Tale Legend Leicester Lévi-Strauss literary London male authority marriage Mary masculine meaning metafictional Miller's Tale modern narrative narrator Palamon Pardoner Pardoner's Tale patriarchal pilgrims poem Poetics portrait position postmodern Prioress Prioress's Tale Prologue and Tale question reader reading relationship religious represents rhetorical Robertson Robyn semiotic sense sexual signified social society speaker spiritual story structure Studies suggests tale's theory Theseus Theseus's thing traditional University Press voice Walter whan Wife of Bath's woman women words