Chaucer and the Social Contest (Routledge Revivals) - Hardcover

Knapp, Peggy

 
9780415616034: Chaucer and the Social Contest (Routledge Revivals)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0415616034 ISBN 13: 9780415616034
Publisher: Routledge, 2011

Synopsis

First published in 1990, Chaucer and the Social Contest takes a fresh view of The Canterbury Tales, by placing the storytelling contest among the Canterbury pilgrims within the larger social contests in the changing England of the late fourteenth century. The author focuses on three crucial fields of contention: the division of social duties into the three estates, the controversies around Wycliffite thought and practice, and the roles of women. Drawing on recent literary theory, particularly Bakhtin and Foucault, Peggy Knapp offers both a reading of nearly all the tales and an argument about how such readings come about, both for Chaucer’s earliest audiences and for us.

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Peggy Knapp

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2011
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415616034
ISBN 13 
9780415616034
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
172

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