Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales (Longman Critical Readers) - Tapa dura

Provides an overview of the various ways in which modern critical theory has impacted on Chaucer studies in the 15 years up to 1998. The text anthologizes some of the most important critical work in the field and provides an introduction which considers Chaucer and Postmodernism.

This book provides an overview of the various ways in which modern critical theory has impacted on Chaucer studies over the last 15 years. It shows how the Canterbury Tales have been radically "opened up" by feminist, Lacanian, Bakhtimian, deconstructive, semiotic, and anthropological theory, to name a few. The introduction to the volume examines in some detail the relation between the individual strengths of each of these approaches and the ways in which a "postmodernist" Chaucer is seen as reflecting them all.