Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales
- Author / Editor
- Saunders, Corinne.
Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales
- Published
- Corinne Saunders, ed. A Companion to Medieval Poetry (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2010), pp. 452-75.
- Description
- Introduces CT as the "epitome" of Chaucer's "literary experimentation," commenting on his social range, the unfinished nature of the work, and, especially, its generic variety--"romance, fabliau, beast-fable, saint's life, miracle story, sermon, [and] moral treatise." Explores instances in which Chaucer "presses genre to its limits" to investigate "story-telling itself."
- Alternative Title
- A Companion to Medieval Poetry.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Canterbury Tales--General.