The Canterbury Tales: Seventeen Tales and the General Prologue by Geoffrey Chaucer

The Canterbury Tales: Seventeen Tales and the General Prologue by Geoffrey Chaucer

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The Canterbury Tales: Seventeen Tales and the General Prologue by Geoffrey Chaucer

This Norton Critical Edition includes: • The medieval masterpiece’s most popular tales, including—new to the Third Edition—The Man of Law’s Prologue and Tale and The Second Nun’s Prologue and Tale. • Extensive marginal glosses, explanatory footnotes, a preface and a guide to Chaucer’s language by V. A. Kolve and Glending Olson. • Sources and analogues arranged by tale. • Fourteen critical essays, eight of them new to the Third Edition. • A Chronology, a Short Glossary and a Selected Bibliography.
V. A. Kolve is UCLA Foundation Professor of English, Emeritus. A Rhodes Scholar, he is the author of Chaucer and the Imagery of Narrative, winner of the James Russell Lowell Award and British Council Prize, The Play Called Corpus Christi, and the forthcoming Christ as Gardener and Pilgrim: A Study in Medieval Iconography. Glending Olson is Professor Emeritus of English, Cleveland State University. He is the author of Literature as Recreation in the Later Middle Ages.
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ISBN 13 9781324000563
ISBN 10 1324000562
Title The Canterbury Tales: Seventeen Tales and the General Prologue
Author Geoffrey Chaucer
Series Norton Critical Editions
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher WW Norton & Co
Year published 2018-04-09
Number of pages 720
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