Chaucer and the Social Contest (Routledge Revivals)
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Author_Peggy Knapp
Bakhtinian theory
canterbury
Canterbury Hall
Canterbury Tales
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Category=DSC
Category=JB
Category=JHB
Chaucer's Clerk
Chaucer's Text
Clerical Estate
Clerk's Tale
Common Language
david
Edward III
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eq_biography-true-stories
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eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
Formal Tribunal
Foucault discourse studies
gender roles medieval
general
General Prologue
internal
Internal Persuasiveness
John Wyclif
knight's
Knight's Tale
late fourteenth century England society
Loathly Lady
Lollard Knights
Lunatic Fringe
medieval English literature
miller's
Miller's Tale
Nun's Priest
Nun's Priest's Tale
Parson's Tale
persuasiveness
prologue
Sir Gawain
social hierarchy analysis
tale
tales
Vice Versa
Wycliffite Bible
Wycliffite controversies
Wycliffite Sermon
Young Men
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- ISBN 9780415616034
- Weight: 480g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 08 Feb 2011
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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First published in 1990, Chaucer and the Social Contest takes a fresh view of The Canterbury Tales, by placing the storytelling contest among the Canterbury pilgrims within the larger social contests in the changing England of the late fourteenth century. The author focuses on three crucial fields of contention: the division of social duties into the three estates, the controversies around Wycliffite thought and practice, and the roles of women. Drawing on recent literary theory, particularly Bakhtin and Foucault, Peggy Knapp offers both a reading of nearly all the tales and an argument about how such readings come about, both for Chaucer’s earliest audiences and for us.
