Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to The Canterbury Tales
- The Cambridge Companion to The Canterbury Tales
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Preface
- Note on the Text
- Chronology
- Abbreviations
- 1 The Form of the Canterbury Tales
- 2 Manuscripts, Scribes, Circulation
- 3 The General Prologue
- 4 The Knight’s Tale and the Estrangements of Form
- 5 The Miller’s Tale and the Art of Solaas
- 6 The Man of Law’s Tale
- 7 The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale
- 8 The Friar’s Tale and TheSummoner’s Tale in Word and Deed
- 9 Griselda and the Problem of the Human in The Clerk’s Tale
- 10 The Franklin’s Symptomatic Sursanure
- 11 The Pardoner and His Tale
- 12 The Prioress’s Tale
- 13 The Nun’s Priest’s Tale
- 14 Moral Chaucer
- 15 Chaucer’s Sense of an Ending
- 16 Postscript: How to Talk about Chaucer with Your Friends and Colleagues
- Reading Chaucer: Easier than You Think?
- Scholarship or Distraction? New Forums for Talking about Chaucer
- Talking about Chaucer with School Teachers
- Who Will Pay?
- Further Reading
- Index
- Cambridge Companions to …
Reading Chaucer: Easier than You Think?
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Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to The Canterbury Tales
- The Cambridge Companion to The Canterbury Tales
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Preface
- Note on the Text
- Chronology
- Abbreviations
- 1 The Form of the Canterbury Tales
- 2 Manuscripts, Scribes, Circulation
- 3 The General Prologue
- 4 The Knight’s Tale and the Estrangements of Form
- 5 The Miller’s Tale and the Art of Solaas
- 6 The Man of Law’s Tale
- 7 The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale
- 8 The Friar’s Tale and TheSummoner’s Tale in Word and Deed
- 9 Griselda and the Problem of the Human in The Clerk’s Tale
- 10 The Franklin’s Symptomatic Sursanure
- 11 The Pardoner and His Tale
- 12 The Prioress’s Tale
- 13 The Nun’s Priest’s Tale
- 14 Moral Chaucer
- 15 Chaucer’s Sense of an Ending
- 16 Postscript: How to Talk about Chaucer with Your Friends and Colleagues
- Reading Chaucer: Easier than You Think?
- Scholarship or Distraction? New Forums for Talking about Chaucer
- Talking about Chaucer with School Teachers
- Who Will Pay?
- Further Reading
- Index
- Cambridge Companions to …
Summary
Chaucerians seeking financial support for their research endeavors need to be cautious about using the appeal to enduring humanistic values, since they can be used both to deracinate and to trivialize what we do (even by our allies). More particular and specific arguments based on an ongoing and dynamic relation between past and present are both truer to the enterprise and, in the end, more compelling to contemporary audiences.
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- The Cambridge Companion to The Canterbury Tales , pp. 233 - 237Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020