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Chaucer's Dead Body

Author : Thomas A. Prendergast
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2004-03-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135887261

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Chaucer's Dead Body by Thomas A. Prendergast Pdf

First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Chaucer's Dead Body

Author : Thomas Augustine Prendergast
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Authors and readers
ISBN : 0415966795

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Chaucer's Dead Body by Thomas Augustine Prendergast Pdf

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer

Author : Suzanne Conklin Akbari,James Simpson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 46,9 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.

Playing the Canterbury Tales

Author : Dr Andrew Higl
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781409479130

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Playing the Canterbury Tales by Dr Andrew Higl Pdf

Playing the Canterbury Tales addresses the additions, continuations, and reordering of the Canterbury Tales found in the manuscripts and early printed editions of the Tales. Many modern editions present a specific set of tales in a specific order, and often leave out an entire corpus of continuations and additions. Andrew Higl makes a case for understanding the additions and changes to Chaucer's original open and fragmented work by thinking of them as distinct interactive moves in a game similar to the storytelling game the pilgrims play. Using examples and theories from new media studies, Higl demonstrates that the Tales are best viewed as an "interactive fiction," reshaped by active readers. Readers participated in the ongoing creation and production of the tales by adding new text and rearranging existing text, and through this textual transmission, they introduced new social and literary meaning to the work. This theoretical model and the boundaries between the canonical and apocryphal texts are explored in six case studies: the spurious prologues of the Wife of Bath's Tale, John Lydgate's influence on the Tales, the Northumberland manuscript, the ploughman character, and the Cook's Tale. The Canterbury Tales are a more dynamic and unstable literary work than usually encountered in a modern critical edition.

Twentieth-Century Chaucer Criticism

Author : Dr Kathy Cawsey
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781409478508

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Twentieth-Century Chaucer Criticism by Dr Kathy Cawsey Pdf

Shifting ideas about Geoffrey Chaucer's audience have produced radically different readings of Chaucer's work over the course of the past century. Kathy Cawsey, in her book on the changing relationship among Chaucer, critics, and theories of audience, draws on Michel Foucault's concept of the 'author-function' to propose the idea of an 'audience function' which shows the ways critics' concepts of audience affect and condition their criticism. Focusing on six trend-setting Chaucerian scholars, Cawsey identifies the assumptions about Chaucer's audience underpinning each critic's work, arguing these ideas best explain the diversity of interpretation in Chaucer criticism. Further, Cawsey suggests few studies of Chaucer's own understanding of audience have been done, in part because Chaucer criticism has been conditioned by scholars' latent suppositions about Chaucer's own audience. In making sense of the confusing and conflicting mass of modern Chaucer criticism, Cawsey also provides insights into the development of twentieth-century literary criticism and theory.

Disability in the Middle Ages

Author : Dr Joshua R Eyler
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781409475934

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Disability in the Middle Ages by Dr Joshua R Eyler Pdf

What do we mean when we talk about disability in the Middle Ages? This volume brings together dynamic scholars working on the subject in medieval literature and history, who use the latest approaches from the field to address this central question. Contributors discuss such standard medieval texts as the Arthurian Legend, The Canterbury Tales and Old Norse Sagas, providing an accessible entry point to the field of medieval disability studies to medievalists. The essays explore a wide variety of disabilities, including the more traditionally accepted classifications of blindness and deafness, as well as perceived disabilities such as madness, pregnancy and age. Adopting a ground-breaking new approach to the study of disability in the medieval period, this provocative book will interest medievalists and scholars of disability throughout history.

Chaucer and the Subversion of Form

Author : Thomas A. Prendergast,Jessica Rosenfeld
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781107192843

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Chaucer and the Subversion of Form by Thomas A. Prendergast,Jessica Rosenfeld Pdf

Brings 'new formalist' approaches to Chaucer, focusing on formal agency, bodies, disability, ethics, poetics, reception, and scale.

Chaucer

Author : Marion Turner
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780691210155

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Chaucer by Marion Turner Pdf

"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.

The Birth and Death of the Author

Author : Andrew J. Power
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780429859465

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The Birth and Death of the Author by Andrew J. Power Pdf

The Birth and Death of the Author is a work about the changing nature of authorship as a concept. In eight specialist interventions by a diverse group of the finest international scholars it tells a history of print authorship in a set of author case studies from the fifteenth to the twenty-first century. The introduction surveys the prehistory of print authorship and sets the historical and theoretical framework that opens the discussion for the seven succeeding chapters. Engaging particularly with the history of the materials and technology of authorship it places this in conversation with the critical history of the author up to and beyond the crisis of Barthes' 'Death of the Author'. As a multi-authored history of authorship itself, each subsequent chapter takes a single author or work from every century since the advent of print and focuses in on the relationship between the author and the reader. Thus they explore the complexities of the concept of authorship in the works of Thomas Hoccleve and John Lydgate (Andrew Galloway, Cornell University), William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe (Rory Loughnane, University of Kent), John Taylor, "the Water Poet" (Edel Semple, University College Cork), Samuel Richardson (Natasha Simonova, University of Oxford), Herman Melville (and his reluctant scrivener ‘Bartleby’) (William E. Engel, Sewanee, The University of the South), James Joyce (Brad Tuggle, University of Alabama), and Grant Morrison (Darragh Greene, University College Dublin).

Chaucer's Early Modern Readers

Author : Devani Singh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781009231114

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Chaucer's Early Modern Readers by Devani Singh Pdf

The first extended study of the reception of Chaucer's medieval manuscripts in the early modern period, this book focuses chiefly on fifteenth-century manuscripts and discusses how these volumes were read, used, valued, and transformed in an age of the poet's prominence in print. Each chapter argues that patterns in the material interventions made by readers in their manuscripts - correcting, completing, supplementing, and authorising - reflect conventions which circulated in print, and convey prevailing preoccupations about Chaucer in the period: the antiquity and accuracy of his words, the completeness of individual texts and of the canon, and the figure of the author himself. This unexpected and compelling evidence of the interactions between fifteenth-century manuscripts and their early modern analogues asserts print's role in sustaining manuscript culture and thus offers fresh scholarly perspectives to medievalists, early modernists, and historians of the book. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

Constructing Chaucer

Author : G. Gust
Publisher : Springer
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009-05-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230621619

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Constructing Chaucer by G. Gust Pdf

This book examines the scholarly construction of Geoffrey Chaucer in different historical eras, and challenges long-standing assumptions to enhance the theoretical dialogue on Chaucer's historical reception.

Who Murdered Chaucer?

Author : Terry Jones
Publisher : Politicos Publishing
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0413777359

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Who Murdered Chaucer? by Terry Jones Pdf

Geoffrey Chaucer was a spy, a diplomat, and England's finest poet, and yet nothing is known of his death; after 1400, his name simply disappears from the record. Was he the victim of a political murder? In this book, Terry Jones reassesses Chaucer's work and the turbulent times in which he lived.

Chapters on Chaucer

Author : Kemp Malone
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781421433868

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Chapters on Chaucer by Kemp Malone Pdf

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.