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Author : Isabel Davis,Catherine Nall
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781843844075
The questions of fame and reputation are central to Chaucer's writings; the essays here discuss their various treatments and manifestations.
Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Oxford, Clarendon Press. 1893.
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015024527916
Author : Philippa Morgan
Publisher : Carroll & Graf Pub
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0786714662
Sent on a diplomatic mission to France, medieval English poet Geoffrey Chaucer finds himself in the middle of furor when his host is killed in a hunting "accident" and he must uncover the culprit before he is accused of the crime.
Author : Piero Boitani
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : History
ISBN : 9780859911627
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Author : Kathryn L. McKinley
Publisher : Studies and Texts
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0888442068
"This study of the House of Fame is the product of a long-time fascination with the poem. The thought of Chaucer having newly returned from several trips to Italy and engaging with the writings of Dante and Boccaccio for the first time, offered an exciting window onto late medieval English literary culture at a moment of profound change. He, and they, newly took up the vernacular against conventional wisdom as the medium to explore philosophical, aesthetic, and theological questions. By reading the House of Fame only as a Dantean poem, many readers have done it a disservice and missed much of the poem's important dialogue with Boccaccio; he left many legacies for Chaucer, the most important of which was a vernacular model for departing from Dantean poetics. Boccaccio also foregrounded a poetics of mural ekphrasis. Chaucer eagerly adopts this, but also fills the House of Fame with a striking concentration of three-dimensional visual images, some evoking the religious statuary of his own time, and some the theme of Apocalypse then popular. Since for the later medieval layperson and cleric, visual literacy often took precedence over literacy of the written word, it is important that we read poetic texts in the context of images. In the House of Fame Chaucer begins to present his own vision (however unfinished) as commensurate with Dante's or even Boccaccio's; the poem has much to tell us about his early acquaintance with the Italian poets and his restless struggle to understand and visualize fame, even on their terms. It is a poem always on the move, always in the process of its own "makyng," flaws and all. We must take it as it is, but we must also see it as a "work in progress," a rich and fascinating record of Chaucer's discovery of new intellectual horizons in the years after his sojourns in Italy."--Provided by publisher.
Author : Benjamin Granade Koonce
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400876945
The author's aim is to "restore to the reading of the poem a background of medieval meanings familiar enough to Chaucer’s contemporary reader but almost lost to the modem." Mr. Koonce believes that fame was a clearly defined Christian concept in the Middle Ages, and his interpretation of Chaucer’s allegory proceeds from that central focus. Originally published in 1966. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Philip Gooden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1909771058
It is 1370, right in the middle of the Anglo-French conflict, the Hundred Years War. In danger of losing the Aquitaine territory, England sends Geoffrey Chaucer, protege of the king's son, to France. As a poet on a diplomatic mission, Chaucer must persuade one of the most important noblemen of the region to remain loyal to England's king. But Henri, Comte de Guyac, whose wife Chaucer had previously fallen in love with when he was held prisoner by Henri, is not exactly neutral in his feelings for Chaucer. Wondering how he will feel when he sees Rosamund, the Comte's wife, Chaucer reaches de Guyac's castle and is greeted by turmoil. His mission is further complicated when Henri is killed during a boar hunt. Chaucer soon realizes the Comte's death is no hunting accident and that he must solve the murder before returning home. Enemies and suspects abound, from a troupe of travelling players to factions within the castle itself. Chaucer finds himself in the midst of a brightly colorful puzzle that turns him into a fugitive in a foreign country, unsure who his friends and enemies really are."
Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044021093109
Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Durham Medieval and Renaissanc
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 0888445636
The first version of this edition appeared in 1994 and was described by reviewers as "a considerable advance over the work of earlier editors" ('Journal of English and Germanic Philology'); "essential reading for those planning to write about the House of Fame" ('Speculum'); and "an edition which will be useful and informative to both students and Chaucer scholars alike" ('Review of English Studies'). Critical interest in The House of Fame has since continued to develop, and a re-issue of this edition by PIMS has provided an opportunity to acknowledge and support that interest. The 'Introduction and Commentary' have thus been thoroughly revised to take account of recent scholarship on the poem; glossing in footnotes to the Text and at the end of the volume has been extended; and a number of minor errors have been corrected.
Author : Sheila Delany
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0813012597
On its original publication this classic title made sense of a difficult poem for the first time and brought that poem to the center of a concern with the nature of tradition, textuality, and language that is current today. The book forces late-medieval philosophy out of the closet and into a relation with literature, and it validates the use of contemporary methods and sensibility in literary criticism. In Sheila Delany's view, House of Fame portrays the ambiguity of old or new communication, with skeptical fideism as the means of transcending ambiguity.
Author : Marion Turner
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780691210155
"More than any other canonical English writer, Geoffrey Chaucer lived and worked at the centre of political life--yet his poems are anything but conventional. Edgy, complicated, and often dark, they reflect a conflicted world, and their astonishing diversity and innovative language earned Chaucer renown as the father of English literature. Marion Turner, however, reveals him as a great European writer and thinker. To understand his accomplishment, she reconstructs in unprecedented detail the cosmopolitan world of Chaucer's adventurous life, focusing on the places and spaces that fired his imagination. Uncovering important new information about Chaucer's travels, private life, and the early circulation of his writings, this innovative biography documents a series of vivid episodes, moving from the commercial wharves of London to the frescoed chapels of Florence and the kingdom of Navarre, where Christians, Muslims, and Jews lived side by side. The narrative recounts Chaucer's experiences as a prisoner of war in France, as a father visiting his daughter's nunnery, as a member of a chaotic Parliament, and as a diplomat in Milan, where he encountered the writings of Dante and Boccaccio. At the same time, the book offers a comprehensive exploration of Chaucer's writings, taking the reader to the Troy of Troilus and Criseyde, the gardens of the dream visions, and the peripheries and thresholds of The Canterbury Tales. By exploring the places Chaucer visited, the buildings he inhabited, the books he read, and the art and objects he saw, this landmark biography tells the extraordinary story of how a wine merchant's son became the poet of The Canterbury Tales." -- Publisher's description.
Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2006-05-25
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780141959894
Spanning Chaucer's working life, these four poems build on the medieval convention of 'love visions' - poems inspired by dreams, woven into rich allegories about the rituals and emotions of courtly love. In The Book of the Duchess, the most traditional of the four, the dreamer meets a widower who has loved and lost the perfect lady, and The House of Fame describes a dream journey in which the poet meets with classical divinities. Witty, lively and playful, The Parliament of Birds details an encounter with the birds of the world in the Garden of Nature as they seek to meet their mates, while The Legend of Good Women sees Chaucer being censured by the God of Love, and seeking to make amends, for writing poems that depict unfaithful women. Together, the four create a marvellously witty, lively and humane self-portrait of the poet.
Author : Dieter Mehl
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1986-12-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521318882
This book is a lucid introduction and intelligent examination of Chaucer's narrative poetry.
Author : Kemp Malone
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781421433868
Originally published in 1951. Kemp Malone provides a guide to reading Chaucer's work that is intended for readers who are familiar with Chaucer's work but who are not Chaucerians. The first chapter places Chaucer in the historical and literary context of the fourteenth century. The other essays focus on Chaucer's poetry by providing historicized interpretations of Chaucer's work and methods for each poem.
Author : Kathryn L. Lynch
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0859916006
New readings of Chaucer's dream visions, demonstrating his philosophical interests and learning.