Chaucer In Perspective

Author : Geoffrey Lester
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1999-03-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781847140821

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Chaucer in Perspective by Geoffrey Lester Pdf

Norman Blake, Professor of English Language and Linguistics at Sheffield University, is known throughout the world to scholars of mediaeval English Literature. He has published thirty books and 140 articles on subjects as diverse as Old Norse, Old English, Middle English, early printed books, Shakespeare, Historical Linguistics, Stylistics, Grammar, and the cultural context of mediaeval England. He is best known as an authority on Chaucer, Caxton and Shakespeare's language, and is director of The Canterbury Tales Project, based in the University of Sheffield, which is a scheme to put all the manuscript and early printed versions of the poem onto computer and to issue the transcribed texts on CD-ROM. Norman has lectured and taught in many countries, and is a frequent contributor to international conferences. He has been a Teaching Quality Assessor in universities in Britain and elsewhere. He is also well known (among many other things) for his work as member of the Council of the Early English Text Society, Editor for the Index of Middle English Prose, General Editor of Macmillan's Language of Literature series, and as Secretary of the European Society of the Study of English. Friends and colleagues of this approachable and widely respected scholar have come together to mark his 65th birthday in spring 1999 by contributing to this volume. The essays-on Chaucer, Caxton and related aspects of Middle English-are not only a tribute to Norman's work but also a valuable contribution to Middle English studies in their own right.

Author : David B. Raybin
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0271035676

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Chaucer by David B. Raybin Pdf

"Eleven essays that explore how modern scholarship interprets Chaucer's writings"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Leonard Michael Koff
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520339224

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Chaucer and the Art of Storytelling by Leonard Michael Koff Pdf

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 1988.

Author : Durant Waite Robertson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 631 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400876112

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A Preface to Chaucer by Durant Waite Robertson Pdf

What were the medieval stylistic, aesthetic, and literary conventions that Chancer drew upon and knew that his audience would understand? In this rich study Mr. Robertson has included 118 illustrations-of medieval sculpture, cathedral interiors, illuminated manuscripts, paintings, ornamental devices and decorations-to show how these conventions affected the visual arts of Chaucer's time. Special attention is directed to fundamental differences between medieval and modern attitudes toward poetry, and to the significance of these differences for an approach to medieval art. By placing Chaucer fully in his own time, Mr. Robertson establishes new perspectives for understanding Chaucer’s poetry. His book is like a rich tapestry weaving together many threads. Originally published in 1962. 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 : Edward I. Condren
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0813016797

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Chaucer and the Energy of Creation by Edward I. Condren Pdf

Using extant manuscripts as his starting point, Edward Condren argues that the overall design of the Canterbury Tales has a structural parallel with Dante's Commedia. He demonstrates how individual tales support this design and how the design itself confers rich meaning, in some instances investing with new complexity tales that otherwise have been little appreciated.

Author : Kara A. Doyle
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781843845904

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The Reception of Chaucer's Shorter Poems, 1400-1450 by Kara A. Doyle Pdf

First full-length study of what the manuscript contexts can reveal about early reactions to Chaucer, and in particular his treatment of women.

Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : OXFORD
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009-12-17
Category : Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages
ISBN : 0194247589

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Five Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer Pdf

A retelling of five of Chaucer's classic tales in simplified language for new readers. Includes activities to enhance reading comprehension and improve vocabulary.

Author : Durant Waite Robertson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Aesthetics, Medieval
ISBN : 0691060991

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A Preface to Chaucer by Durant Waite Robertson Pdf

The Description for this book, A Preface to Chaucer: Studies in Medieval Perspective, will be forthcoming.

Author : Tison Pugh
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813048352

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An Introduction to Geoffrey Chaucer by Tison Pugh Pdf

Geoffrey Chaucer is widely considered the father of English literature. This introduction begins with a review of his life and the cultural milieu of fourteenth-century England and then expands into analyses of such major works as The Parliament of Fowls, Troilus and Criseyde, and, of course, the Canterbury Tales, examining them alongside a selection of lesser known verses.

Author : Kara Gaston
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-27
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780192594327

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Reading Chaucer in Time by Kara Gaston Pdf

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 : Robert Epstein
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781786831705

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Chaucer's Gifts by Robert Epstein Pdf

Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, the most celebrated literary work of medieval England, portrays the culture of the late Middle Ages as a deeply commercial environment, replete with commodities and dominated by market relationships. However, the market is not the only mode of exchange in Chaucer’s world or in his poem. Chaucer’s Gifts reveals the gift economy at work in the tales. Applying important recent advances in anthropological gift theory, it illuminates and explains this network of exchanges and obligations. Chaucer’s Gifts argues that the world of the Canterbury Tales harbours deep commitments to reciprocity and obligation which are at odds with a purely commercial culture, and demonstrates how the market and commercial relations are not natural, eternal, or inevitable – an essential lesson if we are to understand Chaucer’s world or our own.

Author : Michael St John
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351952514

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Chaucer’s Dream Visions by Michael St John Pdf

Chaucer used the dream device to engage with the work of French and Italian authors and to explore the philosophical content of their poetry. His four dream visions therefore represent an important conduit through which the influence of European writers was received into English, enabling a profound transition in the way in which the 'self' was conceptualized in medieval courtly literature. Chaucer's Dream Visions is the first book length study to examine the poet's considered use of Aristotelian psychology to describe the mind of the courtly subject in its social context. The study shows that by drawing upon Aristotelian psychology, derived from his reading of Boethius, Dante, and the poets of the French court, Chaucer was able to articulate precisely those aspects of the courtly identity that are determined by language and empirical experience, and those which are transcendent of this determinism. A detailed engagement with the literature, language, and behaviour of the court therefore takes place in the dream visions, which are a genuine exploration of individual subjectivity in its social context. The author of this volume demonstrates that the motivation for this exploration is a product of Chaucer's Christian beliefs and philosophical awareness. Chaucer's Dream Visions thus constitutes a major contribution to the debate concerning distinctions between medieval and early modern culture.

Author : Karla Taylor
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0804715440

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Chaucer Reads “The Divine Comedy” by Karla Taylor Pdf

A Stanford University Press classic.

Author : Michael William Grose
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:258536270

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Chaucer by Michael William Grose Pdf

Author : Corinne Saunders
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781405154628

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A Concise Companion to Chaucer by Corinne Saunders Pdf

This concise companion provides a succinct introduction to Chaucer’s major works, the contexts in which he wrote, and to medieval thought more generally. Opens with a general introductory section discussing London life and politics, books and authority, manuscripts and readers. Subsequent sections focus on Chaucer’s major works – the dream visions, Troilus and Criseyde and The Canterbury Tales. Essays highlight the key religious, political and intellectual contexts for each major work. Also covers important general topics, including: medieval literary genres; dream theory; the Church; gender and sexuality; and reading Chaucer aloud. Designed so that each contextual essay can be read alongside one of Chaucer’s major works.