The Canterbury Tales: Seventeen Tales and the General Prologue
The Canterbury Tales: Seventeen Tales and the General Prologue
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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.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781324000563 |
| ISBN 10 | 1324000562 |
| Title | The Canterbury Tales: Seventeen Tales and the General Prologue |
| Author | Geoffrey Chaucer |
| Series | Norton Critical Editions |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | WW Norton & Co |
| Year published | 2018-04-09 |
| Number of pages | 720 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |