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The Canterbury Tales: Seventeen Tales and the General Prologue
A Norton Critical Edition
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This edition is ideal for undergraduate students studying medieval literature, as well as readers interested in classic English poetry and the cultural backdrop of 14th-century England.
"This book has been more helpful to the students--both the better ones and the lesser ones--than any other book I have ever used in any of my classes in my more than a quarter century of university teaching."
--RICHARD L. KIRKWOOD, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
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This Norton Critical Edition includes:
- The medieval masterpiece's most popular tales, including—new to the Third Edition—The Man of Law's Prologue and Tale and The Second Nun's Prologue and Tale.
- Extensive marginal glosses, explanatory footnotes, a preface, and a guide to Chaucer's language by V. A. Kolve and Glending Olson.
- Sources and analogues arranged by tale.
- Twelve critical essays, seven of them new to the Third Edition.
- A Chronology, a Short Glossary, and a Selected Bibliography.
About the Series
Read by more than 12 million students over fifty-five years, Norton Critical Editions set the standard for apparatus that is right for undergraduate readers. The three-part format—annotated text, contexts, and criticism—helps students to better understand, analyse, and appreciate the literature, while opening a wide range of teaching possibilities for instructors. Whether in print or in digital format, Norton Critical Editions provide all the resources students need.
Series: Norton Critical Editions
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ISBN: 9781324000563
Publisher: WW Norton & Co
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 01 May 2018
Country: United States
Imprint: WW Norton & Co
Edition: Third Edition
Contributors:
- Edited by V. A. Kolve
- Edited by Glending Olson
Audience: Tertiary education
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 23.0mm
Width: 145.0mm
Height: 236.0mm
Weight: 730g
Pages: 720
About the Author
V. A. Kolve is UCLA Foundation Professor of English, Emeritus. A Rhodes Scholar, he is the author of Chaucer and the Imagery of Narrative, winner of the James Russell Lowell Award and British Council Prize, The Play Called Corpus Christi, and the forthcoming Christ as Gardener and Pilgrim: A Study in Medieval Iconography. Glending Olson is Professor Emeritus of English, Cleveland State University. He is the author of Literature as Recreation in the Later Middle Ages.
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