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  title info:
    title: In praise of Chaucer's Canterbury tales
  name:
    name part: Hardy, John
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: viii, 144 pages ; 22 cm.
  abstract: Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" has been praised as "the most celebrated storytelling event in world literature" and "part of the permanent literary and sub-literary culture of English-speaking people." While its social context and polyphonic nature have been seen as resulting from a vertically structured society becoming more horizontally organized, the present work of literary criticism offers a detailed study of Chaucer's text. This effectively demonstrates his broadly based imaginative insights which encompass so much of the drama of human life. This critical approach also enables us to see how significant were some of the changes he made to his sources, enabling a recognition of his continuing relevance in encouraging new responses and attitudes beyond the merely medieval. These are evident in his awareness of the potential for domestic violence in the Clerk's Tale, the need for trust in loving relationships in the Franklin's Tale and the importance of gaining new perspectives in the tale of the fascinating Wife of Bath. Her contribution and that of the homosexual Pardoner focus indelibly on their own lives, where a detailed study of the text reflects on what they themselves inwardly hope for or fear.
  note: by John Hardy.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [140]-142) and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Chaucer, Geoffrey
      name part: -1400
  subject:
    topic: Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages
    geographic: England
    geographic: Canterbury
    topic: Poetry
  subject:
    topic: Tales, Medieval
    topic: Criticism, Textual
  classification: PR1874 .H37 2025
  classification: 821.1
  identifier: 1036443019
  identifier: 9781036443016
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 250226
    record change date: 20250730144605.6
    record identifier: in00005651449