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Earnest games: folkloric patterns in the Canterbury tales

By Carl Lindahl

Book information

Publisher
Indiana University Press
Year
1989
ISBN
9780253325037, 9780253205506
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
46 MB (48200718 bytes)
Pages
197\207
Library
Fulcrum
Time added
2023-06-13 10:12:43

Description

In Ernest Games Carl Lindahl recovers a folkloric world long hidden from readers of Chaucer. Lindahl is the first critic to demonstrate how the poem reflects the social and artistic patterns of medieval folk performance. Combining current approaches from the fields of literary criticism, social history, and folklore, Earnest Games begins with a study of Chaucer's setting and characters. Lindahl discovers that Chaucer gives each community—the gentils, the churls, and the pilgrims—a game strategy that faithfully reflects the social realities of the English Middle Ages.

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