An Introduction to the Canterbury Tales : Reading, Fiction, Context
- Author / Editor
- Phillips, Helen.
An Introduction to the Canterbury Tales : Reading, Fiction, Context
- Published
- New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000.
- Physical Description
- vi, 254 pp.
- Description
- Discusses all of the Tales in Ellesmere order, surveying past and current critical approaches. Emphasizes the diversity of CT, discusses the narrative voice, and places the work in historical, political, and economic contexts. Concludes that Chaucer offers no unified message in CT other than "the importance of moral discernment." Includes notes, bibliography, and index.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.