Playing the Canterbury Tales: The Continuations and Additions

by Andrew Higl

Overview

Playing the Canterbury Tales addresses the additions, continuations and reordering found in early copies of the Canterbury Tales. Using examples and theories from new media studies, Higl demonstrates that the Tales are best viewed as an 'interactive fiction.' Readers participated in the on-going creation and production of the tales by adding new text, rearranging existing text, and through this textual transmission, introduced new social and literary meaning to the work.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781409479130
Publisher:	Ashgate Publishing Ltd
Publication date:	05/28/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	18 MB
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About the Author

Andrew Higl is an assistant professor of English at Winona State University, USA.

Table of Contents

Introduction; Chapter 1 Reclaiming the 'œSpurious' and 'œApocryphal'; Chapter 2 Thresholds to the Tales; Chapter 3 The Many John Lydgates in the World of the Tales; Chapter 4 The Movable Parts of Northumberland MS 455; Chapter 5 Geoffrey's Games in the Tale of Beryn; Chapter 6 Playing Games with the Plowmen; Chapter 7 Answering the Riddle of the Cook's Tale; conclusion Conclusion;

Editorial Reviews

'... I was constantly educated by the insightfulness and theoretical audacity of [Higl's] chapters. This is a smart book and deserves a wide readership among scholars and teachers of Chaucer.' The Medieval Review 'This is an intelligently written book... [the] reader will find astute comment and engrossing readings in the later chapters, and above all, a welcome reminder that writing and reading were as complicated and variable activities in the centuries following Chaucer’s death as in the production and consumption of new-media games and books available online today.' Times Literary Supplement

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