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Author : John J. McGavin
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0838638147
It looks out, in a groundbreaking study, to the use of similes in other late-medieval poems."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Amanda Holton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351881685
Focusing on four aspects of Chaucer's poetics-use of narrative, speech, rhetoric, and figurative language-this is the first book-length study to identify Chaucer's distinctive poetic strategies by making specific comparisons with known textual sources. The author provides a combination of analysis of both poetic stylistics and sources, reading The Legend of Good Women and five of The Canterbury Tales (The Knight's Tale, The Man of Law's Tale, The Physician's Tale, The Monk's Tale, and The Manciple's Tale) against their textual sources, including Ovid's Metamorphoses and Heroides, Boccaccio's Teseida, Virgil's Aeneid, Le Roman de la Rose, and histories by Nicholas Trevet and Guido delle Colonne. Holton provides a picture of Chaucer's habits as a writer, showing that he was consistent in asserting his own techniques against the pressure of his sources and in keeping control over words and their meaning.
Author : Samantha Katz Seal
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-26
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780192568496
The monograph series Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture showcases the plurilingual and multicultural quality of medieval literature and actively seeks to promote research that not only focuses on the array of subjects medievalists now pursue in literature, theology, and philosophy, in social, political, jurisprudential, and intellectual history, the history of art, and the history of science but also that combines these subjects productively. It offers innovative studies on topics that may include, but are not limited to, manuscript and book history; languages and literatures of the global Middle Ages; race and the post-colonial; the digital humanities, media and performance; music; medicine; the history of affect and the emotions; the literature and practices of devotion; the theory and history of gender and sexuality, ecocriticism and the environment; theories of aesthetics; medievalism. When Geoffrey Chaucer is named the 'Father of English poetry', an inherent assumption about paternity is transmitted. Chaucer's 'fatherhood' is presented as a means of poetic legitimization, a stable mode of authority that connects the medieval author with all the successive generations of English writers. This book argues, however, that for Chaucer himself, paternity was a far more fraught ambition, one capable of devastating male identity as surely as it could enshrine it. Moving away from anachronistic assumptions about reproduction and authority, this book argues that Chaucer profoundly struggled with his own desire to create something that would last past his own death. For Chaucer also believed that men were the humble, mortal playthings of an all too distant God. Medieval Christianity taught that the earth was but a temporary, sorrowful abode for corrupted men, and that the fall from grace was reborn within each generation of Adam's sons. Chaucer knew that God had set sharp limits upon man's ability to create with certainty, and to determine his own posterity. Yet, what could be more human than the longing to wrest some small authority from one's own mortal flesh? This book argues that this essential intellectual, ethical, and religious crisis lies at the very heart of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Within this masterpiece of English literature, Chaucer boldly confronts the impossibility of his own aching wish to see his offspring, biological and poetic, last beyond his own death, to claim the authority simultaneously promised and denied by the very act of creation.
Author : Philip Carl Salzman,Donna Robinson Divine
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317996392
Postcolonial theory is one of the main frameworks for thinking about the world and acting to change the world. Arising in academia and reshaping humanities and social sciences disciplines, postcolonial theory argues that our ideas about foreigners, ‘the other,’ particularly our negative ideas about them, are determined not by a true will to understand, but rather by our desire to conquer, dominate, and exploit them. According to postcolonial theory, the cause of poverty, tyranny, and misery in the world, and of failed societies around the world, is Euro-American imperialism and colonialism. Previously published as a special issue of Israel Affairs, this work examines and challenges postcolonial theory. In scholarly, research-based papers, the specialist authors examine various facets of postcolonial theory and application. First, the theoretical assumption and formulations of postcolonial theory are scrutinized and found dubious. Second, the deleterious impact on academic disciplines of postcolonial theory is demonstrated. Third, the distorted postcolonial view of history, its obsession with current events to the exclusion of the historical basis of events, is exposed and corrected. Fourth, an examination of Middle Eastern culture challenges the assumption that these societies have been shaped entirely, and victimized, by Western intrusion. Finally, exploring the Arab-Israel conflict, the one-sided case of postcolonial Arabism is explored and found to be faulty.
Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Chaucer, Geoffrey
ISBN : 9781438113715
Presents a collection of critical essays on the Canterbury tales by Geoffrey Chaucer.
Author : Sarah Carpenter,Pamela M. King,Meg Twycross,Greg Walker
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781843844167
Essays on aspects of early drama, including in this volume a focus on the Towneley plays.
Author : Shawn Normandin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319904573
Chaucerian Ecopoetics performs ecocritical close readings of Geoffrey Chaucer's poetry. Shawn Normandin explains how Chaucer's language demystifies the aesthetic charm of his narratives and calls into question the anthropocentrism they often depict. This text combines ecocriticism with reading techniques associated with deconstruction, to provide innovative interpretations of the General Prologue, the Knight's Tale, the Miller's Tale, the Reeve's Tale, the Franklin's Tale, the Physician's Tale, and the Monk's Tale. In stressing the importance of rhetorical nuance and literary form, Chaucerian Ecopoetics enables readers to better understand the ideological prehistory of today's environmental crisis.
Author : Alastair Minnis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107064867
A lively, accessible and wide-ranging introduction to the life and work of the fourteenth-century poet Geoffrey Chaucer.
Author : Hannah Bower
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-21
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780192666123
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Middle English Medical Recipes and Literary Play, 1375-1500 is the first detailed, book-length study of Middle English medical recipes in their literary, imaginative, social, and codicological contexts. Analysing recipe collections in over seventy late medieval manuscripts, this book explores how the words and structures of recipes could contribute to those texts' healing purpose, but could also confuse, impede, exceed, and redefine that purpose. The study therefore presents a challenge to recipes' traditional reputation as mundane, unartful texts written and read solely for the sake of directing practical action. Crucially, it also relocates these neglected texts and overlooked manuscripts within the complex networks forming medieval textual culture, demonstrating that—though marginalized in modern scholarship—medical recipes were actually linguistically, formally, materially, and imaginatively interconnected with many other late medieval discourses, including devotional writings, romances, fabliaux, and Chaucerian poetry. The monograph thus models for readers modes of analysis and close reading that might be deployed in relation to recipes in order to understand better their allusive, fragmentary, and playful qualities as well as their wide-ranging influence on medieval imaginations.
Author : C. Barrington
Publisher : Springer
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137107480
This study provides extensive readings of overlooked American reconstructions of Chaucer and The Canterbury Tales from the colonial to postmodern periods, demonstrating how these repackagings convey uniquely American ideas.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Ardent Media
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Michelle M. Sauer
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Criticism
ISBN : 9781604133301
Fourteenth-century author, poet, and civil servant Geoffrey Chaucer has delighted readers through the ages with his colorful tales filled with humanity, grace, and strength. He is best known for ""The Canterbury Tales"", a vibrant account of life in England during his own day. That canonical work, along with some of Chaucer's lesser-known works, is thoughtfully presented in this invaluable reference resource. This new volume in the ""Bloom's How to Write about Literature"" series assists students in developing paper topics about this frequently studied Englishman.
Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Chelsea House
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : UCSC:32106019499067
Collection of essays about the poem that remains a favorite among students and scholars to this day. With an introduction by Harold Bloom.
Author : Elaine Tuttle Hansen
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520328198
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1992.
Author : Paul Strohm
Publisher : Penguin Books
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780143127833
"A lively microbiography of Geoffrey Chaucer, the "father of English literature", focusing on the surprising and fascinating story of the tumultuous year that led to the creation of the Canterbury Tales"--Provided by publisher.