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English
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Description
From a vexing catalog of trees in the Knight’s Tale to the flirtations with blasphemy in the Parson’s Tale, this volume progresses through the Canterbury Tales story by story, tale by tale, pondering the most egregious failing of each in turn.
Bad Chaucer’s best features are its provocative starting point and its comprehensive commitment to identifying ‘a wider range of lapses and blunders in such topics as thematic consistency, narrative coherency, and character development’ in each of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, even the ones that are frequently overlooked by critics. The author has an impressively broad and comprehensive knowledge of Chaucerian texts and criticism. The writing is lucid, lively, and graceful." - Carissa Harris, Temple University
Tison Pugh is Pegasus Professor of English at the University of Central Florida. He is the author of more than 10 books, including Harry Potter and Beyond: On J. K. Rowling’s Fantasies and Other Fictions and Chaucer's Losers, Nintendo's Children, and Other Forays in Queer Ludonarratology.
Bad Chaucer’s best features are its provocative starting point and its comprehensive commitment to identifying ‘a wider range of lapses and blunders in such topics as thematic consistency, narrative coherency, and character development’ in each of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, even the ones that are frequently overlooked by critics. The author has an impressively broad and comprehensive knowledge of Chaucerian texts and criticism. The writing is lucid, lively, and graceful." - Carissa Harris, Temple University
Tison Pugh is Pegasus Professor of English at the University of Central Florida. He is the author of more than 10 books, including Harry Potter and Beyond: On J. K. Rowling’s Fantasies and Other Fictions and Chaucer's Losers, Nintendo's Children, and Other Forays in Queer Ludonarratology.