The Canterbury Tales: Seventeen Tales and the General Prologue: A Norton Critical Edition

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Geoffrey Chaucer V. A. Kolve (University of California, Los Angeles)

The Canterbury Tales

Seventeen Tales and the General Prologue: A Norton Critical Edition

Geoffrey Chaucer, V. A. Kolve (University of California, Los Angeles), Glending Olson (Cleveland State University)

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29 June 2018

Series: Norton Critical Editions

This Norton Critical Edition includes:

⁊ The medieval masterpiece's most popular tales, including-new to the Third Edition-The Man of Law's Prologue and Tale and The Second Nun's Prologue and Tale.

⁊ Extensive marginal glosses, explanatory footnotes, a preface, and a guide to Chaucer's language by V. A. Kolve and Glending Olson.

⁊ Sources and analogues arranged by tale.

⁊ Twelve critical essays, seven of them new to the Third Edition.

⁊ A Chronology, a Short Glossary, and a Selected Bibliography.

About the Series

Read by more than 12 million students over fifty-five years, Norton Critical Editions set the standard for apparatus that is right for undergraduate readers. The three-part format-annotated text, contexts, and criticism-helps students to better understand, analyze, and appreciate the literature, while opening a wide range of teaching possibilities for instructors. Whether in print or in digital format, Norton Critical Editions provide all the resources students need.

By: Geoffrey Chaucer
Edited by: V. A. Kolve (University of California Los Angeles), Glending Olson (Cleveland State University)
Imprint: Norton
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: Third Edition
Volume: 0
Dimensions: Height: 236mm, Width: 142mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 536g
ISBN: 9781324000563
ISBN 10: 1324000562
Series: Norton Critical Editions
Pages: 720
Publication Date: 29 June 2018
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

V. A. Kolve is UCLA Foundation Professor of English, Emeritus. A Rhodes Scholar, he is the author of Chaucer and the Imagery of Narrative, winner of the James Russell Lowell Award and British Council Prize, The Play Called Corpus Christi, and the forthcoming Christ as Gardener and Pilgrim: A Study in Medieval Iconography. Glending Olson is Professor Emeritus of English, Cleveland State University. He is the author of Literature as Recreation in the Later Middle Ages.