Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury tales : a casebook / edited by Lee Patterson. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007. - x, 241 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. - Casebooks in criticism .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-241).

The general prologue and estates literature / Jill Mann -- "The struggle between noble designs and chaos": the literary tradition of Chaucer's Knight's tale / Roberty W. Hanning -- Nature, youth, and Nowell's flood / V. A. Kolve -- Of a fire in the dark: public and private feminism in the Wife of Bath's tale / H. Marshall Leicester, Jr. -- Imagery, structure, and theme in Chaucer's Merchant's tale / Karl Wentersdorf -- Pleasure and responsibility in the Franklin's tale / Harry Berger, Jr. -- The Pardoner's dilemma / Lee Patterson -- Empathy and enmity in the Prioress's tale / Stephen Spector -- A reading of the Nun's Priest's tale / Derek Pearsall -- The Nun's Priest's metamorphosis of scholastic discourse / Jim Rhodes.

ISBN: 0195175735 (cloth : alk. paper) 0195175743 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN: 2006003074

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 013541057

Subjects--Personal Names:
Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400. Canterbury tales.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
International Baccalaureate
Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature.
Tales, Medieval--History and criticism.

LC Class. No.: PR1874 / .G46 2007

Dewey Class. No.: 821/.1 821/.1