Canterbury tales

FEATURES OF CHAUCER'S WRITING " CANTERBURY TALES "
Content
1. GENRE SPECIFICITY OF "THE CANTERBURY STORIES"……..….5
2. THE INFLUENCE OF OTHER GENRES OF MEDIEVAL LITERATURE ON THE "Canterbury Tales"……………………………………………..…..18
3. REALISM J. CHAUCERA AND THE GENRE SPECIFICITY OF HIS WORKS…………………………………………………………………………20
4. D. Chaucer and the "Canterbury Tales": A Contemporary View of the Society of England XIV . in…………………………………………….………23
Conclusion……………………………………………………………...………..29
Glossary………………………………………………………………...………..31
References….…………………………………………………………..………..32

Introduction
For more than two centuries, researchers have been paying close attention to the problem of literary types and genres. If everything is more or less clear with its first part: the main part of scientists agree that there are three literary types - epic, lyric and drama, then as for the second, there are different rather controversial points of view. The problem of the genre can be formulated as the problem of classifying works, identifying common genre features in them. The main difficulties of classification are associated with the historical change in literature, with the evolution of its genres.¹
In my work, I explore the problem of the genre specifics of "The Canterbury Tales" by J. Chaucer. This problem was addressed at different times by such literary scholars as Kashkin AND. , Mikhalskaya M. , Meletinsky E. , Matuzova V. , Podkorytova N. , Belozerova N. , Popova M. etc. As M. Popova rightly noted: “the genre diversity of English literature included allegorical didactic and chivalric poems, ballads and madrigals, messages and odes, treatises and sermons, vision poems and the Canterbury Tales crowning Chaucer’s work, which absorbed all the diversity genres of that time . I. Kashkin , in turn, claims: “it is difficult to determine the genre of this book. If we consider separately the stories from which it is composed , then it may seem like an encyclopedia of literary genres of the Middle Ages . E. Meletinsky , agreeing with I. Kashkin , also proves that the plots of The Canterbury Tales are “mostly realistic and, on the whole, represent a completely Renaissance (by type) encyclopedia of English life in the 14th century, and at the same time - an encyclopedia of poetic genres of the time : here is a courtly story, and a household short story, and le , and a fablio, and a folk ballad, and a parody of knightly adventurous poetry, and a didactic narrative in verse. - And, in addition, the researcher emphasizes, “new genres are also outlined, for example, “little tragedies” that a monk expounds in Chaucer, instructive historical miniatures, clearly related to pre-Renaissance motifs ".
The purpose of the work is to determine the genre originality of "The Canterbury Tales" by J. Chaucer. In connection with the purpose of the study, we set ourselves the following tasks: Consider the concept of genre in literary theory; Summarize the current level of the problem of the genre specifics of "The Canterbury Tales" by J. Chaucer;
Highlight the genre features of the short story and the chivalric romance in the Canterbury Tales; Present your own version of the Canterbury Tales genre specifics.
The relevance of this work is due to an attempt to systematize the existing concepts of the genre originality of the Canterbury Tales, as well as an attempt to consider this problem in the light of the achievements of modern literary criticism.
The scientific novelty of the work is due to the lack of special works devoted to this problem.