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Article: A COMPANION TO CHAUCER'S THE CANTERBURY TALES.(Review) (book review)
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- Studies in Short Fiction
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- January 1, 1998
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A COMPANION TO CHAUCER'S THE CANTERBURY TALES by Margaret Hallissy. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1995. xiv + 333 pages. $49.95.
Aimed primarily at undergraduates and general readers seeking a "do-it-yourself course" on Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, this study guide is "intended for the first-time reader," and "assumes no previous experience with Chaucer's work and no background in medieval studies." Indeed, in part Hallissy writes in response to the new audience of literary novices presumably created by The Western Canon (1994), Harold Bloom's controversial best seller. Bloom not only includes Chaucer as one of his 26 great writers, but also places him ...