Chaucer The Basics

Author : Jacqueline Tasioulas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781317212188

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Chaucer: The Basics by Jacqueline Tasioulas Pdf

Chaucer: The Basics is an accessible introduction to the works of Geoffrey Chaucer. It provides a clear critical analysis of the texts, while also providing some necessary background to key medieval ideas and the historical period in which he lived. Jacqueline Tasioulas gives a brief account of Chaucer’s life in its historical and cultural context and also introduces the reader to some of the key religious and philosophical ideas of the period. The essentials of the language and pronunciation are introduced through close reading in a section dedicated to demystifying this often alien-seeming aspect of studying Chaucer. Including a whole chapter devoted to poetry the book also discusses key works, such as: The Book of the Duchess The House of Fame The Parliament of Fowls Troilus and Criseyde The Legend of Good Women The Canterbury Tales With glosses and translations of texts, a glossary of key terms and a timeline, this book is essential reading for anyone studying Chaucer and medieval literature.

Author : William T. Rossiter
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781843842156

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Chaucer and Petrarch by William T. Rossiter Pdf

First full study of Chaucer's readings and translations of Petrarch suggests a far greater influence than has hitherto been accepted.

Author : Angela Jane Weisl,Anthony Joseph Cunder
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317210634

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Medieval Literature: The Basics by Angela Jane Weisl,Anthony Joseph Cunder Pdf

Medieval Literature: The Basics is an engaging introduction to this fascinating body of literature. The volume breaks down the variety of genres used in the corpus of medieval literature and makes these texts accessible to readers. It engages with the familiarities present in the narratives and connects these ideas with a contemporary, twenty-first century audience. The volume also addresses contemporary medievalism to show the presence of medieval literature in contemporary culture, such as film, television, games, and novels. From Dante and Chaucer to Christine de Pisan, this book deals with questions such as: What is medieval literature? What are some of the key topics and genres of medieval literature? How did it evolve as technology, such as the printing press, developed? How has it remained relevant in the twenty-first century? Medieval Literature: The Basics is an ideal introduction for students coming to the subject for the first time, while also acting as a springboard from which deeper interaction with medieval literature can be developed.

Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2008-11-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780199555079

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Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer Pdf

Chaucer's masterpiece and one of the greatest narrative poems in English, the story of the lovers Troilus and Criseyde is renowned for its deep humanity and penetrating psychological insight. This new translation into modern English by a major Chaucerian scholar includes an index of the names relating to the Trojan War and an Index of Proverbs.

Author : Kathryn L. Lynch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135309527

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Chaucer's Cultural Geography by Kathryn L. Lynch Pdf

First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Rosalyn Rossignol
Publisher : Facts on File
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0816032963

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Chaucer A to Z by Rosalyn Rossignol Pdf

An encyclopedic guide to the fourteenth-century poet's life and works examines Chaucer's language, historical events, and literary influences in his work.

Author : Frank Grady,Peter W. Travis
Publisher : Modern Language Association
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781603291958

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Approaches to Teaching Chaucer's Canterbury Tales by Frank Grady,Peter W. Travis Pdf

Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales was the subject of the first volume in the Approaches to Teaching series, published in 1980. But in the past thirty years, Chaucer scholarship has evolved dramatically, teaching styles have changed, and new technologies have created extraordinary opportunities for studying Chaucer. This second edition of Approaches to Teaching Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales reflects the wide variety of contexts in which students encounter the poem and the diversity of perspectives and methods instructors bring to it. Perennial topics such as class, medieval marriage, genre, and tale order rub shoulders with considerations of violence, postcoloniality, masculinities, race, and food in the tales. The first section, “Materials,†reviews available editions, scholarship, and audiovisual and electronic resources for studying The Canterbury Tales. In the second section, “Approaches,†thirty-six essays discuss strategies for teaching Chaucer’s language, for introducing theory in the classroom, for focusing on individual tales, and for using digital resources in the classroom. The multiplicity of approaches reflects the richness of Chaucer’s work and the continuing excitement of each new generation’s encounter with it.

Author : John M. Bowers
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192580306

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Tolkien's Lost Chaucer by John M. Bowers Pdf

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 : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 46,5 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 : Daniel Pinti
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317944997

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Writing After Chaucer by Daniel Pinti Pdf

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 : D. Carlson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137039149

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Chaucer's Jobs by D. Carlson Pdf

Geoffrey Chaucer was not a writer, primarily, but a privileged official place-holder. Prone to violence, including rape, assault, and extortion, the poet was employed first at domestic personal service and subsequently at police-work of various sorts, protecting the established order during a period of massive social upset. Chaucer's Jobs shows that the servile and disciplinary nature of the daily work Chaucer did was repeated in his poetry, which by turns flatters his aristocratic betters and deals out discipline to malcontent others. Carlson contends that it was this social-political quality of Chaucer's writings, not artistic merit, that made him the 'Father of English Poetry'.

Author : Paul Beekman Taylor
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0838636829

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Chaucer's Chain of Love by Paul Beekman Taylor Pdf

This book explores the Chain of Love, a Platonic metaphor for the invisible bond between Creator and Creation, for the space between beginnings and ends of temporal succession, and for the heard, or unheard, word between thought and deed, or between contrition and satisfaction in the process of penitence.

Author : Erik Hertog
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9061864623

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Chaucer's Fabliaux as Analogues by Erik Hertog Pdf

The presence of so many fabliaux in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales is intriguing in its own right, given the fact that there are no real fabliaux in Middle English befor Chaucer. But these stories are also interesting as instances of a concept and practice thas has received little critical attention so far, namely 'analogy', the writing and, above all, recognition of 'similar' stories. How to account for the literary practice that enables us to perceive stories as similar, c.q. analogous? This original study sets out to explore this phenomenon, first tentatively vis-?)vis other terms and practices (Translation, Borrowing, Adaptation, Version) and then, in the major part of the book, in a pragmatic-structuralist analysis of four salient components of narrative--Plot, Character, Thematics, and Genre--each illustrated with examples taken from Chaucer's fabliaux and their analogues in various European languages.In each of the four chapters the key-issue is Categorisation and Hertog traces its evolution and usefulness a a concept from Wittgenstein's family resemblances' and Zadeh's 'fuzzy set theory' to E. Rosch's Prototype theory. The conclusion draws attention to two aspects which set Chaucer's fabliaux very much apart from the other analogues: their contextuality within the polylogue of the Canterbury Tales, and secondly, their explicit intertextuality which invites us to look anew at the assumptions of traditional source-criticism. The study ends with some theoretical reflections on analogy and an attempt at definition.The book will interest not only Chaucerians and other medievalists but also scholars in literarry theory and interpretation.

Author : John Gardner
Publisher : Barnes & Noble Publishing
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0760712816

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Life and Times of Chaucer by John Gardner Pdf

Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015004167345

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Selections from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (Ellesmere Text) by Geoffrey Chaucer Pdf