Chaucer's General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
Chaucer's General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales

Author: Caroline D. Eckhardt

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 1990-01-01

Total Pages: 520

ISBN-13: 9780802025920

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This annotated, international bibliography of twentieth-century criticism on the Prologue is an essential reference guide. It includes books, journal articles, and dissertations, and a descriptive list of twentieth-century editions; it is the most complete inventory of modern criticism on the Prologue.

Chaucer's Afterlife
Chaucer's Afterlife

Author: Kathleen Forni

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2013-03-13

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 0786473444

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This study explores Chaucer's present-day cultural reputation by way of popular culture. In just the past two decades his texts have been adapted to a wide variety of popular genres, including television, stage, comic book, hip-hop, science fiction, horror, romance, and crime fiction. This cultural recycling involves a variety of functions but Chaucer's primary association is with the idea of pilgrimage and the prevailing tenor is populist satire. The target is not only cultural elitism but also the dominant discourse of professional Chaucerians. Academics in turn may have doubts about the value of popular Chaucer; popular culture theory, however, would maintain that such skepticism has less to do with critical discrimination than the assertion of social distinction. Nonetheless, the fact that Chaucer has a popular afterlife, and remains an ideological product over which competing groups lay claim, attests to his current cultural vitality.

The Canterbury Tales
The Canterbury Tales

Author: Geoffrey Chaucer

Publisher: Xist Publishing

Published: 2016-03-24

Total Pages: 963

ISBN-13: 1681959089

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The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer from Coterie Classics All Coterie Classics have been formatted for ereaders and devices and include a bonus link to the free audio book. “Then you compared a woman's love to Hell, To barren land where water will not dwell, And you compared it to a quenchless fire, The more it burns the more is its desire To burn up everything that burnt can be. You say that just as worms destroy a tree A wife destroys her husband and contrives, As husbands know, the ruin of their lives. ” ― Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales The Canterbury Tales are collection of stories by Chaucer, each attributed to a fictional medieval pilgrim.