Chaucer: "The Canterbury Tales."

Author / Editor
Jeffrey, David Lyle.

Title
Chaucer: "The Canterbury Tales."

Published
Robert C. Roberts, Scott H. Moore, and Donald D. Schmeltekopf, eds. Finding a Common Thread: Reading Great Texts from Homer to O'Connor (South Bend, Ind.: St. Augustine's Press, 2013), pp. 167-85, 335-36.

Description
Offers a historicized, "iconological," Great Texts approach to CT, reading the poem as a "staged retelling of many tales, old and new" that is thereby "particularly pertinent for the larger rationale of a Great Texts curriculum." Traces two thematic patterns or "movements" in the work: rational wisdom and the Christian theological virtues, each expressed ironically at times, and both framed by recurrent concern with spiritual progress, confession, and conclusion.

Contributor
Roberts, Robert C., ed.
Moore, Scott H., ed.
Schmeltekopf, Donald D. ed.

Alternative Title
Finding a Common Thread: Reading Great Texts from Homer to O'Connor.

Chaucer Subjects
Canterbury Tales--General