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Linda
Cookson &
Bryan Loughrey, eds.
Critical Essays on The General Prologue to The
Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer.
Harlow: Longman, 1989.
Longman Literature Guides series.
ISBN
0582037905;
ISBN-13: 9780582037908.
Paperback, stitch bound.
Printed by Bell & Bain, Glasgow.
143x210x8mm.
140pp.
Main language: English.
Fair
to good
condition:
looks battered, covers creased, but the binding is sound, the spine is
not creased from reading, and the text appears to be free of
marking.
This
item £3.00
194g.
How to order this book
Introductory
anthology aimed at A-level and undergraduate students, each essay is
followed by a few "afterthoughts" for further discussion. Contents:
Paul Norgate, 'Structure of Chaucer's General Prologue;
Alan Gardiner, Narrator of the General Prologue;
John E. Cunningham, Character & caricature in Chaucer's General Prologue;
Pat Pinsent,
Chaucer's critique of the Church in the General Prologue;
Mark Spencer Ellis, The Shipman's knife;
Angus Alton, Moral balance in the General Prologue;
Claire Saunders, Chaucer's art of portraiture - subject, author & reader;
Paul Oliver, Ambiguous icons - Knight, Parson & Plowman;
Cedric
Watts,
Boring virtue & interesting vice - literary conflict between morality & vitality;
Charles Moseley, The General Prologue as prologue.
Appendix: Practical guide to essay writing
Notes: at foot of page
Tables: no
Illustrations: no
Maps & plans: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: a few references
Index: no
See also: | Canterbury Tales |
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