Program

Research Programs: Scholarly Publications

Period of Performance

4/1/1986 - 9/30/1987

Funding Totals

$2,066.00 (approved)
$2,066.00 (awarded)


Chaucer's Drama of Style: Poetic Variety and Contrast in the "Canterbury Tales", by David Benson

FAIN: RP-20806-86

University of North Carolina Press, Inc. (Chapel Hill, NC 27515-2288)
Iris Tillman Hill (Project Director: September 1985 to October 1990)

To support the publication of a new interpretation of the CANTERBURY TALES thatargues that each tale is an expression of a special kind of poetry, and that the whole is not a dramatic contrast of different pilgrims but an unresolved debate among different poets.