Genre in and of the Canterbury Tales

Author / Editor
Ferster, Judith.

Title
Genre in and of the Canterbury Tales

Published
Corinne Saunders, ed. A Concise Companion to Chaucer (Malden, Mass.; Oxford; and Victoria: Blackwell, 2006), pp. 179-98.

Description
Ferster explores the importance of genre for understanding CT, a collection of different genres. Discusses how Chaucer stretches, plays with, and interrogates genre by combining features of genre and the expectations they create. Concentrates on the use of medieval estates satire and the representation of the narrator in GP. Also considers the dramatic approach to CT and the slipperiness of genre in the Tales, especially MkT.

Alternative Title
A Concise Companion to Chaucer.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales - General.
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.
Monk and His Tale.