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Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015004167345
Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Canterbury tales (selected)
ISBN : OCLC:404251013
Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-09
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780393084184
"A truly remarkable achievement." —Barry Unsworth In the tradition of Seamus Heaney’s Beowulf and Marie Borroff’s Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Sheila Fisher’s The Selected Canterbury Tales is a vivid, lively, and readable translation of the most famous work of England’s premier medieval poet. Preserving Chaucer’s rhyme and meter, Fisher makes these tales accessible to a contemporary ear while inviting readers to the Middle English original on facing pages. Her informative introduction highlights Chaucer’s artistic originality in his memorable portrayals of surprisingly modern women and men from across the spectrum of medieval society.
Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Penguin Classics
Page : 1334 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2005-04-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UCSC:32106019048260
At the Tabard Inn in Southwark, a jovial group of pilgrims assembles, including an unscrupulous Pardoner, a noble-minded Knight, a ribald Miller, the lusty Wife of Bath, and Chaucer himself. As they set out on their journey towards the shrine of Thomas a Becket in Canterbury, each character agrees to tell a tale. The twenty-four tales that follow are by turns learned, fantastic, pious, melancholy and lewd, and together offer an unrivalled glimpse into the mind and spirit of medieval England.
Author : David Pogue,Scott Speck
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781119049746
Haydn, Tchaikovsky, and Brahms, oh, my! The beginner's guide to classical music Classical Music For Dummies is a friendly, funny, easy-to-understand guide to composers, instruments, orchestras, concerts, recordings, and more. Classical music is widely considered one of the pinnacles of human achievement, and this informative guide will shows you just how beautiful and rewarding it can be. You'll learn how Bach is different from Beethoven, how Mozart is different still, and why not all "classical" music is actually Classical if it's really Baroque or Romantic. You'll be introduced to the composers and their work, and discover the groundbreaking pieces that shake the world every time they're played. Begin building your classical music library with the essential recordings that define orchestral, choral, and operatic beauty as you get acquainted with the orchestras and musicians that bring the composers to life. Whether you want to play classical music or just learn more about it, Classical Music For Dummies will teach you everything you need to know to get the most out of this increasingly popular genre. Distinguish flute from piccolo, violin from viola, and trumpet from trombone Learn the difference between overtures, requiems, arias, and masses Explore the composers that shaped music as we know it Discover the recordings your music library cannot be without Classical music has begun sneaking into the mainstream — if your interest has been piqued, there's never been a better time to develop an appreciation for this incredibly rich, complex, and varied body of work. Classical Music For Dummies lays the groundwork, and demonstrates just how amazing classical music can be.
Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1986026264
Written between 1387 and 1400, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales is set on a journey made by thirty-one pilgrims (including Chaucer and the host, Harry Bailey) as they travel from Southwark in London to Thomas Becket's shrine at Canterbury. There, in return for the prize of a free dinner, the pilgrims each agreed to participate in a story-telling contest to help make their long journey more enjoyable. This volume contains three of Chaucer's most popular tales; the General Prologue, the Pardoner's Tale and the Wife of Bath's Tale. All of these are complete and unabridged with numbered lines. The side-by-side modern English translation contained in this book is based upon a literal, word-for-word approach. Here, readers will find each translated line is placed directly opposite to its counterpart in Chaucer's original text. As a result, the meaning of unfamiliar words can be checked immediately - thereby making the present version particularly useful for those who are new to Middle English. Unfortunately, there are instances when this word-for-word approach might not provide the reader with a clear understanding. In these situations, an explanatory word or phrase has been added to the original text. However, these additions are clearly separated from the original text inside square brackets [ ]. Furthermore, in the interests of propriety, any offensive references to female genitalia have not been translated directly. Instead, they have been translated into much more acceptable, indirect terms. Many translations of the Canterbury Tales make great efforts to retain its iambic pentameter and rhyming couplet structure. That is a highly laudable endeavour. Unfortunately, there are instances when Chaucer's poetic framework has been preserved only by inserting a new, substitute word which alters his meaning entirely. Instead, the word-for-word translation contained in this work expressly avoids those difficulties; but does so at the risk of being criticised for lacking a consistent structure. Clearly, some lines rhyme, whilst others do not. That said, the creation of a non-rhyming version of the Canterbury Tales might not be quite so seditious as first appears. The reader is reminded that Chaucer wrote his Canterbury Tales before the Great Vowel Shift of 1400 to 1600. As a result, that evolution of English pronunciation suggests the Canterbury Tales may already have begun to lose it poetic resonance soon after it was written. The translator was educated at St Chad's College Durham, Warwick, Exeter and De Montfort Universities. Lately, he was both a Hardwicke and Sir Thomas More scholar of Lincoln's Inn, London. His publications include works on English law and literature.
Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1795
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0025147091
Author : Vincent F. Hopper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781316615584
The classic respected series in a stunning new design. This edition of The Knight's Tale from the highly-respected Selected Tales series includes the full, complete text in the original Middle English, along with an in-depth introduction by A. C. Spearing, detailed notes and a comprehensive glossary.
Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1915
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:748990983
Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-20
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781316615652
The classic respected series in a stunning new design. This edition of The Clerk's Prologue and Tale from the highly-respected Selected Tales series includes the full, complete text in the original Middle English, along with an in-depth introduction by James Winny, detailed notes and a comprehensive glossary.
Author : Robert Thomas Lambdin,Laura Lambdin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1999-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313019487
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales is one of the oldest and most widely studied works of English literature. The tales provide a glimpse of medieval life, and the professions of the pilgrims figure prominently in the poetry. To have a clear understanding of Chaucer's work, the reader needs to know about the vocations of the pilgrims. For some 600 years, this information has been difficult to locate. This reference work conveniently synthesizes and discusses information about the occupation of each of Chaucer's pilgrims and provides an historical context. The volume contains individual entries for each of Chaucer's pilgrims, and the entries share a similar format to foster comparison. Each entry includes three parts. First, the pilgrim's profession is discussed in terms of the daily routine of the medieval occupation. Second, the vocation is examined in terms of its reflection in the tale told by the pilgrim. Third, the vocation and the tale are discussed, when possible, in relation to the descriptions of the characters provided in the General Prologue. Each entry includes a bibliography, and the volume concludes with a list of works for further reading.
Author : Manish Sharma
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487539566
The Logic of Love in The Canterbury Tales argues that Geoffrey Chaucer’s magnum opus draws inventively on the resources of late medieval logic to conceive of love as an "insoluble." Philosophers of the fourteenth century expended great effort to solve insolubilia, like the notorious Liar paradox, in order to decide upon their truth or falsity. For Chaucer, however, and in keeping with Christ’s admonition from the Sermon on the Mount, the lover does not judge – does not decide on – the beloved. Through a series of detailed and rigorously "non-judgmental" readings, Manish Sharma provides new insight into each of the prologues and tales and intervenes into scholarly debates about their collective import. In so doing, The Logic of Love in The Canterbury Tales deploys Chaucer’s understanding of charity to consider the limitations of modern critical approaches to The Canterbury Tales, including deconstruction, psychoanalysis, and gender theory. In the course of the analysis, Sharma shows not only how love and medieval philosophy together inform Chaucerian composition, but also how Chaucer could serve as a resource for contemporary theoretical reflections on love and ethics.
Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Broadview Press Incorporated
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009-04-30
Category : Poetry
ISBN : IND:30000124560446
This edition offers a selection of ten of the most widely read of the Canterbury Tales in the original Middle English, along with the General Prologue and Chaucer's Retraction, where he apologizes for the unworthy parts of the poem. Drawing from the same text as the full Broadview edition of the Tales, which is based on the famous Ellesmere Manuscript, this edition also features a critical introduction, marginal translations in modern English of difficult words, and explanatory footnotes. The appendices from the complete edition are also included in their entirety, along with a sampling of illustrations from the Ellesmere manuscript.
Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-25
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781316615607
The classic respected series in a stunning new design. This edition of The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale from the highly-respected Selected Tales series includes the full, complete text in the original Middle English, along with an in-depth introduction by James Winny, detailed notes and a comprehensive glossary.