Chaucer S Dream Poetry

Author : Helen Phillips,Nick Havely
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317900474

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Chaucer's Dream Poetry by Helen Phillips,Nick Havely Pdf

Dream literature is regarded as one of the most important genres in medieval literature and is widely studied. This text provides a succinct and clear introduction to the five central poems that comprise Chaucer's Dream Poetry, and shows his role as a leading adapter of European Literary tradition into English Literature. The poems discussed are The Book of the Duchess, The Legend of Good Women, The Legend of Dido, The Parliament of Fowls and The House of Fame. Each have an introduction setting the poem within the context of Dream Poetry and Chaucer's own work. Appendices of proper names, pronunciation and criticism are also given. This volume is unique is presenting the poems together in an editorial and critical framework. The quality of annotation is unrivalled and will make this text a major addition to the literature suitable for those interested in the genre, literary, or more general history of the period.

Author : Barry A. Windeatt
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN : 9780859910729

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Chaucer's Dream Poetry by Barry A. Windeatt Pdf

This volume makes available in translation the texts that lie behind Chaucer's dream poems - The Book of the Duchess, The Parliament of Fowls, The House of Fame and Prologue to the Legend of Good Women. Chaucer's dream poems are now being increasingly studied and appreciated. With their attractively bookish dreamer figure and their graceful use of conventions and traditions, they have their distinctive place in Chaucer's work. But the nodern reader of these medieval poems particularly needs a sense of their literary context in the tradition of comparable narrative poems - largely in OId French - which Chaucer knew and drew upon. None of these French poems has ever been made available in English translation before, and many of the texts are difficult to access, being available only in dated French scholarly editions. The authors represented are Froissart, Machaut and Deschamps, as well as some minor and anonymous poems, and there are also relevant translations from Cicero and Boccaccio. The book gives an idea of what Chaucer's sources were in themselves, and in what ways the English poet was inspired to use and go beyond them, and this presents a picture of the poet at work. Some of the French poems are translated carefully by Chaucer, while with other poems he is selective, interested in certain sections of his sources only. In further cases, the original material can be seen to have provided a more general point of departure for Chaucer's own developments on his work.

Author : Helen Phillips,Nick Havely
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317900467

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Chaucer's Dream Poetry by Helen Phillips,Nick Havely Pdf

Dream literature is regarded as one of the most important genres in medieval literature and is widely studied. This text provides a succinct and clear introduction to the five central poems that comprise Chaucer's Dream Poetry, and shows his role as a leading adapter of European Literary tradition into English Literature. The poems discussed are The Book of the Duchess, The Legend of Good Women, The Legend of Dido, The Parliament of Fowls and The House of Fame. Each have an introduction setting the poem within the context of Dream Poetry and Chaucer's own work. Appendices of proper names, pronunciation and criticism are also given. This volume is unique is presenting the poems together in an editorial and critical framework. The quality of annotation is unrivalled and will make this text a major addition to the literature suitable for those interested in the genre, literary, or more general history of the period.

Author : William A. Quinn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1138864390

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Chaucer's Dream Visions and Shorter Poems by William A. Quinn Pdf

Author : A. C. Spearing
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1976-11-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521211948

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Medieval Dream-Poetry by A. C. Spearing Pdf

This 1976 book is a study of the medieval English dream-poem set against classical and medieval visionary and religious writings.

Author : Susan Schibanoff
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780802090355

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Chaucer's Queer Poetics by Susan Schibanoff Pdf

Geoffrey Chaucer was arguably fourteenth-century England's greatest poet. In the nineteenth century, readers of Chaucer's early dream poems - the Book of the Duchess, House of Fame, and Parliament of Fowles - began to detect a tripartite model of his artistic development from a French to an Italian, and finally to an English phase. They fleshed out this model with the liberation narrative, the inspiring story of how Chaucer escaped the emasculating French house of bondage to become the generative father of English poetry. Although this division has now largely been dismissed, both the tripartite model and the accompanying liberation narrative persist in Chaucer criticism. In Chaucer's Queer Poetics, Susan Schibanoff interrogates why the tripartite model remains so tenacious even when literary history does not support it. Revealing deeply rooted Francophobic, homophobic, and nationalistic biases, Schibanoff examines the development paradigm and demonstrates that 'liberated Chaucer' depends on antiquated readings of key source texts for the dream trilogy. This study challenges the long held view the Chaucer fled the prison of effete French court verse to become the 'natural' English father poet and charts a new model of Chaucerian poetic development that discovers the emergence of a queer aesthetic in his work.

Author : Michael St John
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 52,6 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 : James Winny
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015000535909

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Chaucer's Dream-poems by James Winny Pdf

Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0393925889

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Dream Visions and Other Poems by Geoffrey Chaucer Pdf

This Norton Critical Edition presents Chaucer's four dream visions and selected shorter poems and is suitable for both beginning and advanced students.

Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-10
Category : Poetry
ISBN : EAN:8596547167389

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The Book of the Duchess by Geoffrey Chaucer Pdf

The Book of the Duchess is a surreal poem that was presumably written as an elegy for Blanche, Duchess of Lancaster's (the wife of Geoffrey Chaucer's patron, the royal Duke of Lancaster, John of Gaunt) death in 1368 or 1369. The poem was written a few years after the event and is widely regarded as flattering to both the Duke and the Duchess. It has 1334 lines and is written in octosyllabic rhyming couplets.

Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : SMK Books
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1515428532

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Chaucer's Dream Visions by Geoffrey Chaucer Pdf

Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Oxford, Clarendon Press. 1893.
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015024527916

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The Hous of Fame by Geoffrey Chaucer Pdf

Author : Constance B. Hieatt
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783111342504

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The realism of dream visions by Constance B. Hieatt Pdf

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Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HWTRXK

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The Parlament of Foules by Geoffrey Chaucer Pdf

Author : Manchester University Press,Megan Leitch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1526151103

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Sleep and Its Spaces in Middle English Literature by Manchester University Press,Megan Leitch Pdf

This book shows how sleep and the spaces in which it takes place animate ethical codes and emotive scripts, shaping a range of medieval English genres. In particular, it demonstrates the significance of sleep-related motifs to Middle English romance and offers a more embodied understanding of dream visions by Chaucer, Langland and the Pearl-poet.