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Chaucer’s Polyphony

Author : Jonathan Fruoco
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501514364

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Chaucer’s Polyphony by Jonathan Fruoco Pdf

Geoffrey Chaucer has long been considered by the critics as the father of English poetry. However, this notion not only tends to forget a huge part of the history of Anglo-Saxon literature but also to ignore the specificities of Chaucer’s style. Indeed, Chaucer’s decision to write in Middle English, in a time when the hegemony of Latin and Old French was undisputed (especially at the court of Edward III and Richard II), was consistent with an intellectual movement that was trying to give back to European vernaculars the prestige necessary to a genuine cultural production, which eventually led to the emergence of romance and of the modern novel. As a result, if Chaucer cannot be thought of as the father of English poetry, he is, however, the father of English prose and one of the main artisans of what Mikhail Bakhtin called the polyphonic novel.

Chaucer's Polyphony

Author : Jonathan Fruoco
Publisher : Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1501527274

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Chaucer's Polyphony by Jonathan Fruoco Pdf

Geoffrey Chaucer has long been considered by the critics as the father of English poetry. However, this notion not only tends to forget a huge part of the history of Anglo-Saxon literature but also to ignore the specificities of Chaucer's style. Indeed, Chaucer's decision to write in Middle English, in a time when the hegemony of Latin and Old French was undisputed (especially at the court of Edward III and Richard II), was consistent with an intellectual movement that was trying to give back to European vernaculars the prestige necessary to a genuine cultural production, which eventually led to the emergence of romance and of the modern novel. As a result, if Chaucer cannot be thought of as the father of English poetry, he is, however, the father of English prose and one of the main artisans of what Mikhail Bakhtin called the polyphonic novel.

Chaucer’s Polyphony

Author : Jonathan Fruoco
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501514043

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Chaucer’s Polyphony by Jonathan Fruoco Pdf

Geoffrey Chaucer has long been considered by the critics as the father of English poetry. However, this notion not only tends to forget a huge part of the history of Anglo-Saxon literature but also to ignore the specificities of Chaucer’s style. Indeed, Chaucer’s decision to write in Middle English, in a time when the hegemony of Latin and Old French was undisputed (especially at the court of Edward III and Richard II), was consistent with an intellectual movement that was trying to give back to European vernaculars the prestige necessary to a genuine cultural production, which eventually led to the emergence of romance and of the modern novel. As a result, if Chaucer cannot be thought of as the father of English poetry, he is, however, the father of English prose and one of the main artisans of what Mikhail Bakhtin called the polyphonic novel.

Polyphony and the Modern

Author : Jonathan Fruoco
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000391084

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Polyphony and the Modern by Jonathan Fruoco Pdf

Polyphony and the Modern asks one fundamental question: what does it mean to be modern in one’s own time? To answer that question, this volume focuses on polyphony as an index of modernity. In The Principle of Hope, Ernst Bloch showed that each moment in time is potentially fractured: people living in the same country can effectively live in different centuries – some making their alliances with the past and others betting on the future – but all of them, at least technically, enclosed in the temporal moment. But can a claim of modernity also mean something more ambitious? Can an artist, by accident or design, escape the limits of his or her own time, and somehow precociously embody the outlook of a subsequent age? This book sees polyphony as a bridge providing a terminology and a stylistic practice by which the period barrier between Medieval and Early Modern can be breached. Chapter 1 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781003129837

Music, Body, and Desire in Medieval Culture

Author : Bruce W. Holsinger
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Music
ISBN : 0804740585

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Music, Body, and Desire in Medieval Culture by Bruce W. Holsinger Pdf

Ranging chronologically from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries and thematically from Latin to vernacular literary modes, this book challenges standard assumptions about the musical cultures and philosophies of the European Middle Ages. Engaging a wide range of premodern texts and contexts, the author argues that medieval music was quintessentially a practice of the flesh. It will be of compelling interest to historians of literature, music, religion, and sexuality, as well as scholars of cultural, gender, and queer studies.

Chaucer's General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales

Author : Caroline D. Eckhardt,Dorothy E. Smith
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0802025927

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Chaucer's General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales by Caroline D. Eckhardt,Dorothy E. Smith Pdf

This annotated, international bibliography of twentieth-century criticism on the Prologue is an essential reference guide. It includes books, journal articles, and dissertations, and a descriptive list of twentieth-century editions; it is the most complete inventory of modern criticism on the Prologue.

Hysteria, Perversion, and Paranoia in “The Canterbury Tales”

Author : Becky Renee McLaughlin
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501514067

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Hysteria, Perversion, and Paranoia in “The Canterbury Tales” by Becky Renee McLaughlin Pdf

Beginning with the spectacle of hysteria, moving through the perversions of fetishism, masochism, and sadism, and ending with paranoia and psychosis, this book explores the ways that conflicts with the Oedipal law erupt on the body and in language in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, for Chaucer’s tales are rife with issues of mastery and control that emerge as conflicts not only between authority and experience but also between power and knowledge, word and flesh, rule books and reason, man and woman, same and other – conflicts that erupt in a macabre sprawl of broken bones, dismembered bodies, cut throats, and decapitations. Like the macabre sprawl of conflict in the Canterbury Tales, this book brings together a number of conflicting modes of thinking and writing through the surprising and perhaps disconcerting use of “shadow” chapters that speak to or against the four “central” chapters, creating both dialogue and interruption.

Music in the Age of Chaucer

Author : Nigel Wilkins
Publisher : DS Brewer
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0859915654

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Music in the Age of Chaucer by Nigel Wilkins Pdf

Survey of the relationship between music and literature in 14c France, Italy and Britain, with appendix of all songs attributed to Chaucer. An absorbing survey... He is an expert on the French song of the period, consequently his wider view of Chaucer's musical background is well worth reading ... and he has much to say about Italy and England. The music is first-rate, and early music performers will find these songs a welcome addition to their repertory. EARLY MUSIC Although Chaucer himself was never described as a musician, a number of his poems are based on French models which belongto a well-established musical tradition, and there are also many references to musical activities in his larger works. This is the starting point for Dr Wilkins's book, which explores both the wider question of the relationship between music and literature in the fourteenth century and the specific area of Chaucer `songs'. He surveys the musical and literary scene in France, Italy and Britain during Chaucer's lifetime, with special emphasis on composers such as Machaut and Landini, and on the differences in national styles. The performance of music and the instruments used are also fully explored. The discussion of Chaucer's musical background is illustrated in the accompanyingsettings presented with words by Chaucer - ten ballades, three complaintes (or chants royaux), and one rondeau. Fully illustrated with black and white photographs and musical examples. New edition; first published 1979, 1980.

Chaucer's Prayers

Author : Megan E. Murton
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843845591

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Chaucer's Prayers by Megan E. Murton Pdf

In a culture as steeped in communal, scripted acts of prayer as Chaucer's England, a written prayer asks not only to be read, but to be inhabited: its "I" marks a space that readers are invited to occupy. This book examines the implications of accepting that invitation when reading Chaucer's poetry. Both in his often-overlooked pious writings and in his ambitious, innovative pagan narratives, the "I" of prayer provides readers with a subject-position thatcan be at once devotional and literary - a stance before a deity and a stance in relation to a poem. Chaucer uses this uniquely open, participatory "I" to implicate readers in his poetry and to guide their work of reading. In examining Christian and pagan prayers alongside each other, Chaucer's Prayers cuts across an assumed division between the "religious" and "secular" writings within Chaucer's corpus. Rather, it emphasizes continuities andapproaches prayer as part of Chaucer's broader experimentation with literary voice. It also places Chaucer in his devotional context and foregrounds how pious practices intersect with and shape his poetic practices. These insightschallenge a received view of Chaucer as an essentially secular poet and shed new light on his poetry's relationship to religion.

News from the Raven

Author : Darci Hill
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781443861199

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News from the Raven by Darci Hill Pdf

This volume, edited from the proceedings of a unique conference held at Sam Houston State University, offers the reader an independent Texas-style celebration of Medieval and Renaissance culture and thought. In the opening article, Richard North reveals some ways in which medieval literature pioneered the modern novel. The following essays, drawing from philosophy, literature, music, art, architecture, history, and linguistics, include studies of the portrayal of women in medieval literature and art; discussions surrounding the hero of Paradise Lost; explorations into the thought of Thomas Aquinas; explications of linguistic puzzles in Beowulf; analyses of Shakespeare’s plays; considerations of renaissance architecture and instrumental music; and an investigation into the influence of rhetoric on musical composition.

Polyphony in Medieval Paris

Author : Catherine A. Bradley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108418584

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Polyphony in Medieval Paris by Catherine A. Bradley Pdf

Redefines musical analysis for a period that marks the beginnings of composition as we know it now.

Chaucer's Queer Poetics

Author : Susan Schibanoff
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 43,8 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.

Geoffrey Chaucer

Author : Dieter Mehl
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1986-12-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521318882

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Geoffrey Chaucer by Dieter Mehl Pdf

This book is a lucid introduction and intelligent examination of Chaucer's narrative poetry.

Chaucer's Philosophical Visions

Author : Kathryn L. Lynch
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0859916006

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Chaucer's Philosophical Visions by Kathryn L. Lynch Pdf

New readings of Chaucer's dream visions, demonstrating his philosophical interests and learning.

Eustache Deschamps

Author : Deborah M. Sinnreich-Levi,Ian S. Laurie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2004-03-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135947606

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Eustache Deschamps by Deborah M. Sinnreich-Levi,Ian S. Laurie Pdf

Eustache Deschamps studied under the tutelage of Guillaume de Marchault, traveled in Syria, Palestine, and Egypt-where he was said to have been made a slave-and eventually become recognized as one of the great French medieval poets. He was the first writer to dissociate lyric poetry from its musical setting and his witty perceptions comment on nearly all aspects of daily life: from women's underwear to gluttonous diners, from praise of famous writers to scorn for the unscrupulous of all ranks, from the delights of youth to the horrors of war. This volume provides facing-page, dual-language translations of Deschamps engaging, amusing, and accessible poems, gleaning from the mountains of verse the poems, gleaning from the mountains of verse the most edifying and historically relevant. Copious notes, glossaries, and a full bibliography enhance this elegant translation.