The Cambridge companion to The Canterbury tales /

"What do we mean when we talk about literary form? The word "form" was as multivalent in the later medieval era as it is in our own. Chaucer's great Italian predecessor, Dante, wrote explicitly about form, dividing it into two principal areas, the forma tractatus and the forma tractandi (the form of the treatise and the form of the treatment or, broadly speaking, genre/verse form and style/tone)"The form of the Canterbury Tales /Marion Turner --Manuscripts, scribes, circulation /Simon Horobin --The General Prologue /Steven Justice --The Knight's Tale and the estrangements of form /Mark Miller --The Miller's Tale and the art of solaas /Maura Nolan --The Man of Law's Tale /Catherine Sanok --The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale /Elizabeth Scala --The Friar's Tale and The Summoner's Tale in word and deed /David K. Coley --Griselda and the problem of the human in The Clerk's Tale /Holly A. Crocker --The Franklin's symptomatic sursanure /Peter W. Travis --The pardoner and his tale /Kathy Lavezzo --The Prioress's Tale /Steven F. Kruger --The Nun's Priest's Tale /Mishtooni Bose --Moral Chaucer /Frank Grady --Chaucer's sense of an ending /Patricia Clare Ingham and Anthony Bale --Postscript : how to talk About Chaucer with your friends and colleagues.Reading Chaucer : easier than you think? /David Matthews --Scholarship or distraction? New forums for talking About Chaucer /Ruth Evans --Talking about Chaucer with school teachers /David Raybin --Who will pay? /Stephanie Trigg.Includes bibliographical references and index."What do we mean when we talk about literary form? The word "form" was as multivalent in the later medieval era as it is in our own. Chaucer's great Italian predecessor, Dante, wrote explicitly about form, dividing it into two principal areas, the forma tractatus and the forma tractandi (the form of the treatise and the form of the treatment or, broadly speaking, genre/verse form and style/tone)"The form of the Canterbury Tales /Marion Turner --Manuscripts, scribes, circulation /Simon Horobin --The General Prologue /Steven Justice --The Knight's Tale and the estrangements of form /Mark Miller --The Miller's Tale and the art of solaas /Maura Nolan --The Man of Law's Tale /Catherine Sanok --The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale /Elizabeth Scala --The Friar's Tale and The Summoner's Tale in word and deed /David K. Coley --Griselda and the problem of the human in The Clerk's Tale /Holly A. Crocker --The Franklin's symptomatic sursanure /Peter W. Travis --The pardoner and his tale /Kathy Lavezzo --The Prioress's Tale /Steven F. Kruger --The Nun's Priest's Tale /Mishtooni Bose --Moral Chaucer /Frank Grady --Chaucer's sense of an ending /Patricia Clare Ingham and Anthony Bale --Postscript : how to talk About Chaucer with your friends and colleagues.Reading Chaucer : easier than you think? /David Matthews --Scholarship or distraction? New forums for talking About Chaucer /Ruth Evans --Talking about Chaucer with school teachers /David Raybin --Who will pay? /Stephanie Trigg