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Author : Piero Boitani
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : History
ISBN : 9780859911627
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Author : Dieter Mehl
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,7 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 : Isabel Davis,Catherine Nall
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 41,9 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 : Suzanne Conklin Akbari,James Simpson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 689 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191649387
As the 'father' of the English literary canon, one of a very few writers to appear in every 'great books' syllabus, Chaucer is seen as an author whose works are fundamentally timeless: an author who, like Shakespeare, exemplifies the almost magical power of poetry to appeal to each generation of readers. Every age remakes its own Chaucer, developing new understandings of how his poetry intersects with contemporary ways of seeing the world, and the place of the subject who lives in it. This Handbook comprises a series of essays by established scholars and emerging voices that address Chaucer's poetry in the context of several disciplines, including late medieval philosophy and science, Mediterranean Studies, comparative literature, vernacular theology, and popular devotion. The volume paints the field in broad strokes and sections include Biography and Circumstances of Daily Life; Chaucer in the European Frame; Philosophy and Science in the Universities; Christian Doctrine and Religious Heterodoxy; and the Chaucerian Afterlife. Taken as a whole, The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer offers a snapshot of the current state of the field, and a bold suggestion of the trajectories along which Chaucer studies are likely to develop in the future.
Author : L. Kordecki
Publisher : Springer
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230337893
This book analyzes the interaction between gender and species in Chaucer's poetry and strives to understand his adaptation of medieval discourse through an ecofeminist lens. Works that either speak of animals, or those with animals speaking, give new insights into the medieval textual handling of the 'others' of society.
Author : 张亚婷著
Publisher : BEIJING BOOK CO. INC.
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
本书以环境伦理学为切入点，研究12至15世纪英国作家在拉丁语、盎格鲁－诺曼语和中世纪英语作品中对人与动物关系的再现和环境伦理的展示。研究涉及玛丽、尼格尔、乔叟、“猫头鹰”诗人、“哈夫洛克”诗人、马洛礼、曼德维尔和多名佚名诗人的作品，以文本中动物与人的多重关系、动物的再现政治为重点进行细读研究，探讨人性与动物性、叙事策略和道德意识、动物与文化隐喻的关系，观照这些作家在中世纪英国动物叙事文学发展方面所做出的贡献。
Author : John J. McGavin
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 48,8 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 : Ann W. Astell
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Education
ISBN : 0801432693
Astell examines the conventions of medieval learning familiar to Chaucer and discovers in two related topical outlines, those of the seven planets and of the divisions of philosophy, an important key.
Author : William T. Rossiter
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781843842156
First full study of Chaucer's readings and translations of Petrarch suggests a far greater influence than has hitherto been accepted.
Author : Mary Flowers Braswell
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0838639178
For centuries, Chaucer has been associated with law. This study, however, is concerned less with the overt in Chaucer that concerns law than with the concealed and private: a specific body of materials -- records from the medieval English law courts that the poet evidently read, studied, discussed with colleagues, and then threaded into his texts. This book examines the effects of those documents on the so-called "minor" poems, The House of Fame, and The Canterbury Tales.
Author : Kara Gaston
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-12
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780198852865
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. Reading for form can mean reading for formation. Understanding processes through which a text was created can help us in characterizing its form. But what is involved in bringing a diachronic process to bear upon a synchronic work? When does literary formation begin and end? When does form happen? These questions emerge with urgency in the interactions between English poet Geoffrey Chaucer and Italian trecento authors Dante Alighieri, Giovanni Boccaccio, and Francis Petrarch. In fourteenth-century Italy, new ways were emerging of configuring the relation between author and reader. Previously, medieval reading was often oriented around the significance of the text to the individual reader. In Italy, however, reading was beginning to be understood as a way of getting back to a work's initial formation. This book tracks how concepts of reading developed within Italian texts, including Dante's Vita nova, Boccaccio's Filostrato and Teseida, and Petrarch's Seniles, impress themselves upon Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde and Canterbury Tales. It argues that Chaucer's poetry reveals the implications of reading for formation: above all, that it both depends upon and effaces the historical perspective and temporal experience of the individual reader. Problems raised within Chaucer's poetry thus inform this book's broader methodological argument: that there is no one moment at which the formation of Chaucer's poetry ends; rather its form emerges in and through process of reading within time.
Author : Penelope Reed Doob
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501738463
Ancient and medieval labyrinths embody paradox, according to Penelope Reed Doob. Their structure allows a double perspective—the baffling, fragmented prospect confronting the maze-treader within, and the comprehensive vision available to those without. Mazes simultaneously assert order and chaos, artistry and confusion, articulated clarity and bewildering complexity, perfected pattern and hesitant process. In this handsomely illustrated book, Doob reconstructs from a variety of literary and visual sources the idea of the labyrinth from the classical period through the Middle Ages. Doob first examines several complementary traditions of the maze topos, showing how ancient historical and geographical writings generate metaphors in which the labyrinth signifies admirable complexity, while poetic texts tend to suggest that the labyrinth is a sign of moral duplicity. She then describes two common models of the labyrinth and explores their formal implications: the unicursal model, with no false turnings, found almost universally in the visual arts; and the multicursal model, with blind alleys and dead ends, characteristic of literary texts. This paradigmatic clash between the labyrinths of art and of literature becomes a key to the metaphorical potential of the maze, as Doob's examination of a vast array of materials from the classical period through the Middle Ages suggests. She concludes with linked readings of four "labyrinths of words": Virgil's Aeneid, Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy, Dante's Divine Comedy, and Chaucer's House of Fame, each of which plays with and transforms received ideas of the labyrinth as well as reflecting and responding to aspects of the texts that influenced it. Doob not only provides fresh theoretical and historical perspectives on the labyrinth tradition, but also portrays a complex medieval aesthetic that helps us to approach structurally elaborate early works. Readers in such fields as Classical literature, Medieval Studies, Renaissance Studies, comparative literature, literary theory, art history, and intellectual history will welcome this wide-ranging and illuminating book.
Author : Alexander N. Gabrovsky
Publisher : Springer
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137523914
The secrets of nature's alchemy captivated both the scientific and literary imagination of the Middle Ages. This book explores Chaucer's fascination with earth's mutability. Gabrovsky reveals that his poetry represents a major contribution to a medieval worldview centered on the philosophy of physics, astronomy, alchemy, and logic.
Author : Gillian Adler
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02
Category : Time
ISBN : 9781786838360
A study of time in Chaucer's major works. Geoffrey Chaucer wrote at a turning point in the history of timekeeping, but many of his poems demonstrate a greater interest in the moral dimension of time than in the mechanics of the medieval clock. Chaucer and the Ethics of Time examines Chaucer's sensitivity to the insecurity of human experience amid the temporal circumstances of change and time-passage, as well as strategies for ethicising historical vision in several of his major works. While wasting time was occasionally viewed as a sin in the late Middle Ages, Chaucer resists conventional moral dichotomies and explores a complex and challenging relationship between the interior sense of time and the external pressures of linearism and cyclicality. Chaucer's diverse philosophical ideas about time unfold through the reciprocity between form and discourse, thus encouraging a new look at not only the characters' ruminations on time in the tradition of St Augustine and Boethius, but also manifold narrative sequences and structures, including anachronism.
Author : William Anthony Davenport
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780859912778
`Lively and interesting... Complaint and its interaction with its narrative context is explored across the range of Chaucer's oeuvre from the shorter poems to various Tales.' NOTES & QUERIES Counters the view of Chaucer's complaints as exercises in a worn-out French tradition by demonstrating how his effort to fuse lyric and narrative modes led him to experiment with complaint. `His analyses give new perspectives on several of Chaucer's works - an intelligent, original and profitable view.'STUDIES IN THE AGE OF CHAUCER
