The Canterbury Tales

Author / Editor
Lerer, Seth.

Title
The Canterbury Tales

Published
Seth Lerer, ed. The Yale Companion to Chaucer (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2006), pp. 243-94.

Description
Lerer reads CT as a "set of representative performances" that "question literary and social selves" and explore the functions of language, literature, and the imagination. Recurrent concern with clothing and representation, communication and monetary exchange, impersonation and competition, intention and effect. The structure of "quitting and response" in CT offers a model "for a future of literary history."

Alternative Title
The Yale Companion to Chaucer.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales - General.