| Description |
263 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-256) and index. |
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Fellowship and detraction in the architecture of the Canterbury tales : from 'The general prologue' and 'The knight's tale' to 'The parson's prologue' -- Credulity and vision : 'The miller's tale', 'The merchant's tale', 'The wife of Bath's tale' -- Sex and lust : 'The merchant's tale', 'The reeve's tale', and other Tales -- The ethics of sufficiency : 'The man of law's introduction' and 'Tale'; 'The shipman's tale' -- Liberality : 'The wife of Bath's prologue' and 'Tale' and 'The Franklin's tale' -- Problems of patience : 'The Franklin's tale', 'The clerk's tale', 'The nun's priest's tale' -- Men, women, and moral jurisdiction : 'The friar's tale', 'The physician's tale', and the pardoner -- Proprieties of work and speech : 'The second nun's prologue' and 'Tale', 'The canon's yeoman's prologue' and 'Tale', 'The manciple's prologue' and 'Tale', and 'The parson's prologue'. |
| Subject |
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400. Canterbury tales.
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 -- Ethics.
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400. |
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Ethics. |
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Ethics, Medieval, in literature.
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Ethics, Medieval, in literature. |
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Virtues in literature.
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Virtues in literature. |
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Sex role in literature.
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Sex role in literature. |
| ISBN |
0199248672 alkaline paper |
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9780199248674 |
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