Chaucer's General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales: An Annotated Bibliography 19001982 (Chaucer Bibliographies),Used

Chaucer's General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales: An Annotated Bibliography 19001982 (Chaucer Bibliographies),Used

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The General Prologue to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales is one of the most enduring works of English literature. Beloved by scholars, teachers, students, and general readers, it has been given a great many different interpretations. This annotated, international bibliography of twentiethcentury criticism on the Prologue is an essential reference guide. It includes books, journal articles, and dissertations, and a descriptive list of twentiethcentury editions; it is the most complete inventory of modern criticism on the Prologue. The extensive annotations provide uniquely convenient access to many publications that are otherwise difficult to obtain.In her introduction, Caroline Eckhardt provides a careful and comprehensive overview of modern trends in criticism, trends which can be traced through the bibliography. At the beginning of the century, for example, Chaucer's Prologue was often described as a 'portrait gallery' and praised for its realism social, psychological, and dramatic. Later in the century came emphases on irony, rhetoric, Freudian interpretations, elaborate allegories, and stylistic complexities. At present, the Prologue is often interpreted as a system of signs and symbols in which realism, if it exists at all, serves purposes beyond itself. The smiling and serene poet of the earlier period has been replaced by a selfconscious ironist, sometimes with a split personality. The portrait gallery of the beginning of the century is still there, though the spectator who walks along it tends to see something less fixed textually (the Prologue is now commonly discussed as workinprogress) and more complicated structurally, generically, and thematically. It is the spectator, of course, who has changed.

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