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Article: An Introduction to the `Canterbury Tales': Reading Fiction, Context. (Reviews).
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- Medium Aevum
- Article date:
- September 22, 2001
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Helen Phillips, An Introduction to the `Canterbury Tales': Reading Fiction, Context (Basingstoke: Macmillan (Palgrave) Press; New York: St Martin's Press, 2000), vi + 254 pp. ISBN 0-333-63680-5 (Macmillan); 0-312-22739-6 (St Martin's Press). 45.00 [pounds sterling] (hard covers), 14.99 [pounds sterling] (p/b).
Introductions to the Canterbury Tales are hardly thin on the ground, but this most studied of all Middle English literary works poses so many problems of interpretation, and continues to spark so many heated critical debates, that new studies remain welcome and necessary, particularly for students approaching the subject for the first time. Helen Phillips's ...