Chaucer S Women Nuns Wives And Amazons

Author : P. Martin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1996-07-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230378636

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Chaucer's Women: Nuns, Wives and Amazons by P. Martin Pdf

In this challenging study Priscilla Martin investigates the subjects of women, sex and gender in Chaucer's poetry. She argues convincingly that these are Chaucer's major subjects and that he presents them as an area of human experience fraught with problems. Women, instead of producing texts and meanings themselves, are trapped in the books and meanings of others, and so the Madonna and the courtly heroine, the nun and the wife, are familiar but questionable images of constructed femininity. '...an intelligent, sensitive, fresh and close reading which focuses upon Chaucer's women ... unconventional and subtle' - John J.McGavin, Times Higher Education Supplement

Author : Priscilla Martin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39076001108211

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Chaucer's Women by Priscilla Martin Pdf

Author : P. Martin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1996-07-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230378636

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Chaucer's Women: Nuns, Wives and Amazons by P. Martin Pdf

In this challenging study Priscilla Martin investigates the subjects of women, sex and gender in Chaucer's poetry. She argues convincingly that these are Chaucer's major subjects and that he presents them as an area of human experience fraught with problems. Women, instead of producing texts and meanings themselves, are trapped in the books and meanings of others, and so the Madonna and the courtly heroine, the nun and the wife, are familiar but questionable images of constructed femininity. '...an intelligent, sensitive, fresh and close reading which focuses upon Chaucer's women ... unconventional and subtle' - John J.McGavin, Times Higher Education Supplement

Author : S. H. Rigby
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0719042364

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Chaucer in Context by S. H. Rigby Pdf

Everyone knows of the Canterbury Tales, acknowledged as one of the leading texts of the English Canon. Consensus about them ends there. Amongst the most written about works of English literature, they still defy categorisation. Was Chaucer a poet of profound religious piety or a sceptic who questioned all religious and moral certainties? Do his pilgrims reflect the actual society of his day, or were they a product of an already well-established literary tradition and convention? Was he a defender of women or a misogynist, who reproduced the antifeminism characteristic of his time? Did his writings present a challenge to the dominant social outlook of late Medieval England or reinforce the status quo? This stimulating new book surveys and assesses these competing critical approaches to Chaucer's work, emphasising the need to see Chaucer in historical context; the context of the social and political concerns of his own day. Writing as a historian, Rigby brings refreshing new insights to this contested old chestnut and Chaucer, and his Tales, are revealed to us as Chaucer's contemporaries would have seen them.

Author : Heather Blurton,Hannah Johnson
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780472130344

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The Critics and the Prioress by Heather Blurton,Hannah Johnson Pdf

Reinvigorating the scholarly debate surrounding approaches to one of Chaucer's most notorious tales

Author : G. A. Rudd
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2005-07-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134632763

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Geoffrey Chaucer by G. A. Rudd Pdf

So many questions surround the key figures in the English literary canon, but most books focus on one aspect of an author's life or work, or limit themselves to a single critical approach. Geoffrey Chaucer offers: *basic information on an author's life, contexts and works *the major critical issues surrounding the author's works, from the time they were written to the present *explanations of the full range of different critical views and interpretations * guides to further reading in each area.

Author : Antonio Bravo
Publisher : Universidad de Oviedo
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 8483171074

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Prose and poetry of the age of Chaucer, s. XIV by Antonio Bravo Pdf

The task of the historian of language is to recreate texts as they were at a given stage of their linguistic life. The texts which follow have been selected and edited in the hope of providing means for understanding the English language of the age of Chaucer. The selection in this volume have been chosen to illustrate the history of the English language in the XIVth. Century. This anthology was conceived, at least in part, because I agree with the idea that it is in literature and in the works written by the most outstanding writers that a language displays its full power. Each selection is supplied with a brief introduction, which gives information as to the source and background necessary for understanding the text, and brief bibliography on MSS, modern editions, and language and literature criticism.

Author : Rosalyn Rossignol
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Civilization, Medieval, in literature
ISBN : 9781438108407

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Critical Companion to Chaucer by Rosalyn Rossignol Pdf

Examines the life and writings of Geoffrey Chaucer, including detailed synopses of his works, explanations of literary terms, character portraits, social and historical influences, and more.

Author : Alcuin Blamires
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2006-04-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199248674

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Chaucer, Ethics, and Gender by Alcuin Blamires Pdf

Alcuin Blamires explains how Chaucer shapes human problems in terms of the uneasy mix of moral traditions at the time. He looks at the main ethical and gender issues that dominate Chaucer's work

Author : Lucy M. Allen-Goss
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781843845706

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Female Desire in Chaucer's Legend of Good Women and Middle English Romance by Lucy M. Allen-Goss Pdf

An examination of female same-sex desire in Chaucer and medieval romance.

Author : Peter Brown
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780470692745

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A Companion to Chaucer by Peter Brown Pdf

Designed as both a contribution to original research and as a stimulating and accessible text, this volume is a helpful, reliable, responsive and adaptable resource for students of Chaucer at all levels.

Author : L. Kordecki
Publisher : Springer
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230337893

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Ecofeminist Subjectivities by L. Kordecki Pdf

This book analyzes the interaction between gender and species in Chaucer's poetry and strives to understand his adaptation of medieval discourse through an ecofeminist lens. Works that either speak of animals, or those with animals speaking, give new insights into the medieval textual handling of the 'others' of society.

Author : Jill Mann
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780859916134

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Feminizing Chaucer by Jill Mann Pdf

An investigation of Chaucer's thinking about women, assessed in the light of developments in feminist criticism. Women are a major subject of Chaucer's writings, and their place in his work has attracted much recent critical attention. Feminizing Chaucer investigates Chaucer's thinking about women, and re-assesses it in the light of developments in feminist criticism. It explores Chaucer's handling of gender issues, of power roles, of misogynist stereotypes and the writer's responsibility for perpetuating them, and the complex meshing of activity and passivityin human experience. Mann argues that the traditionally 'female' virtues of patience and pity are central to Chaucer's moral ethos, and that this necessitates a reformulation of ideal masculinity. First published [as Geoffrey Chaucer] in the series 'Feminist Readings', this new edition includes a new chapter, 'Wife-Swapping in Medieval Literature'. The references and bibliography have been updated, and a new preface surveys publications in the field over the last decade. JILL MANN is currently Notre Dame Professor of English, University of Notre Dame.

Author : Amanda Holton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351881685

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The Sources of Chaucer's Poetics by Amanda Holton Pdf

Focusing on four aspects of Chaucer's poetics-use of narrative, speech, rhetoric, and figurative language-this is the first book-length study to identify Chaucer's distinctive poetic strategies by making specific comparisons with known textual sources. The author provides a combination of analysis of both poetic stylistics and sources, reading The Legend of Good Women and five of The Canterbury Tales (The Knight's Tale, The Man of Law's Tale, The Physician's Tale, The Monk's Tale, and The Manciple's Tale) against their textual sources, including Ovid's Metamorphoses and Heroides, Boccaccio's Teseida, Virgil's Aeneid, Le Roman de la Rose, and histories by Nicholas Trevet and Guido delle Colonne. Holton provides a picture of Chaucer's habits as a writer, showing that he was consistent in asserting his own techniques against the pressure of his sources and in keeping control over words and their meaning.

Author : Jean E. Jost
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000681314

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Chaucer's Humor by Jean E. Jost Pdf

Originally published in 1994. Chaucer is considered the first major humorist in English literature and is particularly interesting as he reflects the humor of predecessors and contemporaries as well as defines development for subsequent British humor. This collection presents essays that define the nature of Chaucerian humor, examine Chaucer’s works from a variety of theoretical perspectives, and consider genres of humor within his writing. This is an excellent work of critical discourse that adds important understanding of Chaucer as well as the field of comedy in literature.