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Author : Lawrence Warner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108426275
Important intervention in Middle English studies that challenges widely accepted narratives on the identities of Chaucer's scribes.
Author : Suzanne Conklin Akbari,James Simpson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191649370
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 : David B. Raybin
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0271035676
"Eleven essays that explore how modern scholarship interprets Chaucer's writings"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Ian Johnson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107035645
Provides a rich and varied reference resource, illuminating the different contexts for Chaucer and his work.
Author : Daniel Wakelin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107076228
An authoritative account of what manuscripts and their corrections reveal about medieval attitudes to books, language and literature.
Author : Theodore M. Andersson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351948760
This volume brings together a series of key essays by Larry D Benson, well-known for his work in editing the Riverside Chaucer. Of the studies selected, the opening three deal with Old English, recasting the possibilities for the critical study of Beowulf, above all the relation between oral and written literary production. The following ten essays turn to Middle English literature, with the focus first on Chaucer, and the evolution of his works and his language, then on the social and cultural context of medieval chivalric texts. Throughout, Professor Benson approaches his subjects with a skeptical intent, even a seeming contrariness in seeking to contradict received views, but in fact with the purpose of questioning in order to understand more deeply. Scattered in their original publications, and with one hitherto unpublished, together these studies present a powerful argument for this questioning approach to fundamental issues and constitute a major contribution to the study of the literary and cultural history of the medieval world. Larry D Benson is Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English, Harvard University.
Author : Daniel Pinti
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317944997
This volume makes available to teachers, students, and scholars a convenient selection of the most provocative and influential articles from the past 20 years on Chaucer's afterlife in the 15th century, one of the most dynamic topics in Chaucer studies today. Much recent work in the field of Chaucer studies has shown how our understanding of Chaucer's poetry is mediated by his 15th-century readers and scribes. Increased scholarly interest in various 15th-century Chaucerian poets-notably Hoccleve, Lydgate, and Henryson-has prompted medievalists to read these sometimes neglected poems anew The classic essays in this volume, plus two written just for this collection, investigate the scribes, glossators, and poets whose reception and transmission of Chaucer's writings influence our own reading of them today, focusing chiefly on the Chaucerian influence in their poetry. Written by eminent Chaucer scholars, these essays cover not only a wide range of Chaucer's writings, but also touch on the history of the English language, the glosses to Chaucer's poetry, English and Scottish poets' appropriations of Chaucer, the implicit criticism and interpretations of Chaucer's writings in the 15th century, and the first printing of Chaucer's works by William Caxton Timely and unique, this collection will prove indispensable for research libraries, a convenient and valuable resource for scholars, and an essential introduction for students.
Author : Kara A. Doyle
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781843845904
First full-length study of what the manuscript contexts can reveal about early reactions to Chaucer, and in particular his treatment of women.
Author : John M. Bowers
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192580290
Tolkien's Lost Chaucer uncovers the story of an unpublished and previously unknown book by the author of The Lord of the Rings. Tolkien worked between 1922 and 1928 on his Clarendon edition Selections from Chaucer's Poetry and Prose, and though never completed, its 160 pages of commentary reveals much of his thinking about language and storytelling when he was still at the threshold of his career as an epoch-making writer of fantasy literature. Drawing upon other new materials such as his edition of the Reeve's Tale and his Oxford lectures on the Pardoner's Tale, this book reveals Chaucer as a major influence upon Tolkien's literary imagination.
Author : Dr Kathy Cawsey
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781409478508
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.
Author : Simon Horobin
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0859917800
A study of the language of Chaucerian manuscripts, printed editions and Chaucer's 15th century followers. Winner of the 2005 Beatrice White Prize for outstanding scholarly work in the field of English literature before 1590 The manuscript copies of Chaucer's works preserve valuable information concerning Chaucer's linguistic practices and the ways in which scribes responded to these. This book draws on recent developments in Middle English dialectology, textual criticism and the application of computers to manuscript studies to assess the evidence Chaucerian manuscripts provide for reconstructing Chaucer's own language and his linguistic environment. This book considershow scribes, editors and Chaucerian poets transmitted and updated Chaucer's language and the implications of this for our understanding of Chaucerian book production and reception, and the processes of linguistic change in the fifteenth century. Winner of the 2005 Beatrice White Prize for outstanding scholarly work in the field of English literature before 1590 SIMON HOROBIN lectures on English language at the University of Glasgow.
Author : M. Davidson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009-12-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230102040
In new readings of medieval language attitudes and identities, this book concludes that multilingualism informed masculinist discourses, which were aligned against the vernacular sentiment traditionally attributed to Langland and Chaucer.
Author : Alexandra Gillespie
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2006-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191514654
Print Culture and the Medieval Author is a book about books. Examining hundreds of early printed books and their late medieval analogues, Alexandra Gillespie writes a bibliographical history of the poet Geoffrey Chaucer and his follower John Lydgate in the century after the arrival of printing in England. Her study is an important new contribution to the emerging 'sociology of the text' in English literary and historical studies. At the centre of this study is a familiar question: what is an author? The idea of the vernacular writer was already contested and unstable in medieval England; Gillespie demonstrates that in the late Middle Ages it was also a way for book producers and readers to mediate the risks - commercial, political, religious, and imaginative - involved in the publication of literary texts. Gillespie's discussion focuses on the changes associated with the shift to print, scribal precedents for these changes, and contemporary understanding of them. The treatment of texts associated with Chaucer and Lydgate is an index to the sometimes flexible, sometimes resistant responses of book printers, copyists, decorators, distributors, patrons, censors, owners, and readers to a gradual but profoundly influential bibliographical transition. The research is conducted across somewhat intractable boundaries. Gillespie writes about medieval and modern history; about manuscript and print; about canonical and marginal authors; about literary works and books as objects. In the process, she finds new meanings for some medieval vernacular texts and a new place for some old books in a history of English culture.
Author : Isabel Marshall,Lela Porter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:30000118818388
no. 78. Rime-index to Chaucer's minor poems for the parallel-text print. no. 80. Rime-index to Chaucer's minor poems for the one-text print.
Author : Geoffrey Chaucer,Larry Dean Benson
Publisher : American Chemical Society
Page : 1386 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages
ISBN : 9780199552092
A re-editing of F.N. Robinson's second edition of The works of Geoffrey Chaucer published in 1957 by the team of experts at the Riverside Institute who have greatly expanded the introductory material, explanatory notes, textual notes, bibliography and glossary. The result of many years' study. The Riverside Chaucer is the most authentic and exciting edition available of Chaucer's complete works.