Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales

Author / Editor
Saunders, Corinne.

Title
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.