Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations (Hardcover))

Collection Of Essays About The Poem That Remains A Favorite Among Students And Scholars To This Day. With An Introduction By Harold Bloom. As Just As Is A Squyre : The Politics Of Lewe Translacion In Chaucer's Summoner's Tale / Fiona Somerset -- The Opening Of Chaucer's General Prologue To The Canterbury Tales: A Diptych / Colin Wilcockson -- Chaucer's Parson And The Specter Of Wycliffism / Katherine Little -- The Living Witnesses Of Our Redemption : Martyrdom And Imitation In Chaucer's Prioress's Tale / Lee Patterson -- The Elvyssh Power Of Constance: Christian Feminism In Geoffrey Chaucer's The Man Of Law's Tale / Elizabeth Robertson -- Mark Him Wel For He Is On Of Po : Training The Lewed Gaze To Discern Hypocrisy / Fiona Somerset -- Of Goddes Pryvetee Nor Of His Wyf : Confusion Of Orifices In Chaucer's Miller's Tale / Louise M. Bishop -- Changing Chaucer / Richard Firth Green -- The Creation Of Consent In The Physician's Tale / Lianna Farber -- Thirteen Ways Of Listening To A Fart: Noise In Chaucer's Summoner's Tale / Peter W. Travis -- Symkyn's Place In The Reeve's Tale / William F. Woods. Edited And With An Introduction By Harold Bloom. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 271-274) And Index. Contents......Page 6 Editor’s Note......Page 8 Introduction......Page 10 "As just as is a squyre”: The Politics of “LewedTranslacion” in Chaucer’s Summoner’s Tale......Page 12 The Opening of Chaucer’s General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales: A Diptych......Page 32 Chaucer’s Parson and the Specter of Wycliffism......Page 40 “The Living Witnesses of Our Redemption”: Martyrdom and Imitation in Chaucer’s Prioress’s Tale......Page 68 The “Elvyssh” Power of Constance: Christian Feminism in Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Man of Law’s Tale......Page 118 “Mark him wel for he is on of po”: Training the“Lewed” Gaze to Discern Hypocrisy......Page 152 “Of Goddes pryvetee nor of his wyf ”: Confusion of Orifices in Chaucer’s Miller’s Tale......Page 172 Changing Chaucer......Page 188 The Creation of Consent in the Physician’s Tale......Page 212 Thirteen Ways of Listening to a Fart: Noise in Chaucer’s Summoner’s Tale......Page 226 Symkyn’s Place in the Reeve’s Tale......Page 248 Chronology......Page 274 Contributors......Page 278 Bibliography......Page 280 Acknowledgments......Page 284 Index......Page 286 Each title features: - Critical essays reflecting a variety of schools of criticism - Notes on the contributing critics, a chronology of the author's life, and an index - An introductory essay by Harold Bloom. Based on the "The Canterbury Tales", this work features an introduction by master scholar Harold Bloom, a chronology detailing Chaucer's life, a bibliography, and an index An overview of the work features a biographical sketch of the author, a list of characters, a summary of the plot, and critical and analytical views of the work. The Canterbury Tales was the first great poem in the English language, and it remains a favorite among students and scholars to this day