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Linda Cookson & Bryan Loughrey, eds.
Critical Essays on The General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer.
Published Harlow: Longman, 1989.
Series: Longman Literature Guides.
ISBN 0582037905;
ISBN-13: 9780582037908.
Binding: paperback, stitch bound.
Printer: Bell & Bain, Glasgow.
Size: 143x210x8mm.
Page count: 140pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair: this copy looks somewhat battered, covers creased, but the binding is sound; the spine is not creased from reading, and the text appears to be free of marking.

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Weight without packaging: 194g.

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Introductory anthology aimed at A-level and undergraduate students, each essay is followed by a few “afterthoughts” for further discussion.

Contents:
Paul Norgate, Structure of Chaucer’s General Prologue;
Alan Gardiner, Narrator of the General Prologue;
John E. Cunningham, Character & caricature in Chaucer’s General Prologue;
Pat Pinsent, Chaucer’s critique of the Church in the General Prologue;
Mark Spencer Ellis, The Shipman’s knife;
Angus Alton, Moral balance in the General Prologue;
Claire Saunders, Chaucer’s art of portraiture — subject, author & reader;
Paul Oliver, Ambiguous icons — Knight, Parson & Plowman;
Cedric Watts, Boring virtue & interesting vice — literary conflict between morality & vitality;
Charles Moseley, The General Prologue as prologue.
Appendix: Practical guide to essay writing.

Illustrations: no
Maps & plans: no

Notes: at foot of page
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: a few references
Index: no

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