Chaucer S Agents

Author : Carolynn Van Dyke
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0838640834

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Chaucer's Agents by Carolynn Van Dyke Pdf

Chaucer's Agents draws on medieval and modern theories of agency to provide fresh readings of the major Chaucerian texts. Collectively, those readings aim to illuminate Chaucer's responses to two greta problems of agency: the degree to which human beings and forces qualify as agents, and the equal reference of "agent" to initiators and instruments. Each chapter surveys medieval conceptions of the agency in question-- allegorical Realities, intelligent animals, pagan gods, women, and the author--and then follows that kind of agent through representative Chaucerian texts. Readers have long recognized Chaucer's interest in questions of causation; Van Dyke shows that his answers to those questions shape, even constitute, his narratives. --Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.

Author : Ian Johnson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107035645

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Geoffrey Chaucer in Context by Ian Johnson Pdf

Provides a rich and varied reference resource, illuminating the different contexts for Chaucer and his work.

Author : Directories. - London
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Alcoholic beverage industry
ISBN : NLS:V000568470

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The London and Suburban Licensed Victuallers', Hotel and Tavern Keepers' Directory ... by Directories. - London Pdf

Author : London and suburban licensed victuallers' directory
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590616374

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The London and suburban licensed victuallers', hotel and tavern keepers' directory, compiled under the superintendence of H.D. Miles by London and suburban licensed victuallers' directory Pdf

Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 730 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044010494110

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The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer: Supplement. Chaucerian and other pieces by Geoffrey Chaucer Pdf

Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781605205281

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Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer by Geoffrey Chaucer Pdf

It is impossible to overstate the importance of English poet GEOFFREY CHAUCER (c. 1343 c. 1400) to the development of literature in the English language. His writings which were popular during his own lifetime with the nobility as well as with the increasingly literate merchant class marked the first celebration of the English vernacular as a tongue worthy of literary endeavor, most notably in his unfinished narrative poem The Canterbury Tales, the format and structure of which continues to be imitated by writers today. But the impact of Chaucer s work was felt even into the 16th and 17th centuries, when the first major collections of his writings set a high standard for how authors should be presented to the reading public. This widely esteemed seven-volume set first published in the 1890s by British academic WALTER WILLIAM SKEAT (1835 1912), Erlington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Cambridge University is based solely on Chaucer s original manuscripts and the earliest available published works (with any significant variations or deviations between versions highlighted in the extensive notes), and comes complete with Skeat s informative commentary on many passages. Volume VII features works generally appended to collections of Chaucer s work, and sometimes attributed to him, including: Thomas Usk: The Testament of Love The Plowmans Tale Jack Upland John Gower: The Praise of Peace Thomas Hoccleve: The Letter of Cupid John Lydgate: The Complaint of the Black Knight Sir Richard Ros: A Balade: Warning Men to Beware of Deceitful Women and more.

Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 770 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:30000011847609

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The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer: Chaucerian and other pieces, being a supplement to the complete works of Geoffrey Chaucer (Oxford, in six volumes. 1894) by Geoffrey Chaucer Pdf

Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 726 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OSU:32435016896771

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The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. Chaucerian and Other Pieces by Geoffrey Chaucer Pdf

Author : Suzanne Conklin Akbari,James Simpson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191649370

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The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer by Suzanne Conklin Akbari,James Simpson Pdf

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 : Monica E. McAlpine
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0802059139

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Chaucer's Knight's Tale by Monica E. McAlpine Pdf

As the first of the Canterbury Tales, the Knight's Tale has been the subject of a vast body of comment by scholars and lay readers. Monica McAlpine provides access to this material in the first of the Chaucer Bibliographies series to deal with a narrative portion of that author's best-known work.

Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 726 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:32000000884165

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Chaucerian and Other Pieces by Geoffrey Chaucer Pdf

Author : Peter Jones,Steven King,Geoff Monks
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-14
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781443857611

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The Land Agent in Britain by Peter Jones,Steven King,Geoff Monks Pdf

Despite the fact that their archives survive in volume and depth across the country, relatively little is known about the fascinating and complex role of the land agent across time. For the very first time, this volume brings together historians, practitioners and representatives of the bodies overseeing the continuing professional development of agents to explore, in overview and through detailed case studies, the wide variety of skills required by those entering this profession. At the core of the contributions here is the sense of continuity which exists between the Anglo-Saxon Reeve and the highly qualified modern land agent. Skills such as a working knowledge of farming, entrepreneurialism, the ability to ‘get on’ with a wide variety of stakeholders as well as estate owners, conservation, environmental management and adaptability to fast changing economic climates or technological possibilities remain as important today as they have been in the past. Fusing together historical and modern perspectives, the contributors both trace the development and refinement of these skills and begin to look to the future of estates and their agents in a post-Brexit world characterised by uncertain subsidies, persistently low food prices, radical changes in the intensity of weather patterns and the need once more to build strong economic and socio-cultural bridges between town and country.

Author : Shawn Normandin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319904573

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Chaucerian Ecopoetics by Shawn Normandin Pdf

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 : Paul Beekman Taylor
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0838636829

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Chaucer's Chain of Love by Paul Beekman Taylor Pdf

This book explores the Chain of Love, a Platonic metaphor for the invisible bond between Creator and Creation, for the space between beginnings and ends of temporal succession, and for the heard, or unheard, word between thought and deed, or between contrition and satisfaction in the process of penitence.

Author : Jane Pettegree
Publisher : Springer
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230307797

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Foreign and Native on the English Stage, 1588-1611 by Jane Pettegree Pdf

This original and scholarly work uses three detailed case studies of plays – Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra , King Lear and Cymbeline – to cast light on the ways in which early modern writers used metaphor to explore how identities emerge from the interaction of competing regional and spiritual topographies.