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Earnest Games: Folkloric Patterns in the Canterbury Tales

Earnest Games: Folkloric Patterns in the Canterbury Tales

Lindahl, Carl

Paperback

Mythology & FolkloreGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 0253205506
ISBN13: 9780253205506
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: Sep 22 1989
Pages: 198
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.48 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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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