Preserving Chaucer’s rhyme and metre, Sheila Fisher’s vivid, lively and readable translation makes the poetic artistry of The Canterbury Tales accessible to a contemporary ear and invites readers, even those who have read the work before in Middle English, to a new appreciation of its delightful stories and unforgettable, surprisingly modern characters.

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Utgivningsdatum2021-01-08
Mått127 x 196 x 18 mm
Vikt261 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieNorton Library
Antal sidor416
FörlagWW Norton & Co
ISBN9780393427899
ÖversättareFisher, Sheila, Fisher, Sheila (Trinity College)

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Sheila Fisher is Professor of English at Trinity College (Hartford). She is the author of Chaucer’s Poetic Alchemy: A Study of Value and Its Transformation in The Canterbury Tales, and the editor (with Janet E. Halley) of Seeking the Woman in Late Medieval and Renaissance Writings: Essays in Feminist Contextual Criticism, as well as essays on the Gawain-poet, Julian of Norwich, and Margery Kempe.