Earnest Games: Folkloric Patterns in the Canterbury Tales

by Carl Lindahl

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253205506
• ISBN13: 9780253205506
• Release Date: September 1989
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"