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Author : Robert Myles
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0859914097
Myles challenges the convention of the `medieval mind' and perceives new semantic sophistication in Chaucer's language.
Author : Carol L. Shilkett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MSU:31293031039187
Author : Seth Lerer
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0300125976
A collection of essays on Chaucer's poetry, this guide provides up-to-date information on the history and textual contexts of Chaucer's work, on the ranges of critical interpretation, and on the poet's place in English and European literary history.
Author : Caroline D. Eckhardt,Dorothy E. Smith
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0802025927
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.
Author : P. Knapp
Publisher : Springer
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230613843
Chaucerian Aesthetics examines The Canterbury Tale and Troilus and Criseyde from both medieval and post-Kantian vantage points. These sometimes congruent, sometimes divergent perspectives illuminate both the immediate pleasure of encountering beauty and its haunting promise of intelligibility. Although aesthetic reflection has sometimes seemed out of sync with modern approaches to mind and language, Knapp defends its value in general and demonstrates its importance for the analysis of Chaucer s narrative art. Focusing on language games, persons, women, humor, and community, this book ponders what makes art beautiful.
Author : Jonathan Fruoco
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501514364
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.
Author : Douglas James Wurtele
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0773521828
Geoffrey Chaucer is increasingly recognized as a writer whose work is particularly congenial to modern tastes. The essays in Chaucer and Language are at the forefront of present-day interest in Chaucer as a highly self-conscious manipulator of language and theorist of signification in the broadest sense.
Author : Kathryn L. Lynch
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0859916006
New readings of Chaucer's dream visions, demonstrating his philosophical interests and learning.
Author : Suzanne Conklin Akbari,James Simpson
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
Page : 689 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199582655
This handbook addresses Chaucer's poetry in the context of several disciplines, including late medieval philosophy and science, Mediterranean culture, comparative European literature, vernacular theology and popular devotion.
Author : Henry Ansgar Kelly
Publisher : DS Brewer
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0859916049
A study of Chaucer's definition of tragedy - with special reference to Troilus -and its lasting influence on English dramatists. This book is concerned with the medieval idea of what constituted tragedy; it suggests that it was not a common term, and that those few who used the term did not always intend the same thing by it. Kelly believes that it was Chaucer's work which shaped notions of the genre, and places his achievement in critical and historical context. He begins by contrasting modern with medieval theoretical approaches to genres, then discusses Boccaccio's concept of tragedy before turning to Chaucer himself, exploring the ideas of tragedy prevalent in medieval England and their influence on Chaucer, and showing how Chaucer interpreted the term. Troilus and Criseyde is analysed specifically as a tragedy, with an account of its reception in modern times; for comparison, there is an analysis of how John Lydgate and Robert Henryson, two of Chaucer's imitators, understood and practiced tragedy. Professor HENRY ANSGAR KELLY teaches at UCLA.
Author : Marion Turner
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780691210155
"More than any other canonical English writer, Geoffrey Chaucer lived and worked at the centre of political life--yet his poems are anything but conventional. Edgy, complicated, and often dark, they reflect a conflicted world, and their astonishing diversity and innovative language earned Chaucer renown as the father of English literature. Marion Turner, however, reveals him as a great European writer and thinker. To understand his accomplishment, she reconstructs in unprecedented detail the cosmopolitan world of Chaucer's adventurous life, focusing on the places and spaces that fired his imagination. Uncovering important new information about Chaucer's travels, private life, and the early circulation of his writings, this innovative biography documents a series of vivid episodes, moving from the commercial wharves of London to the frescoed chapels of Florence and the kingdom of Navarre, where Christians, Muslims, and Jews lived side by side. The narrative recounts Chaucer's experiences as a prisoner of war in France, as a father visiting his daughter's nunnery, as a member of a chaotic Parliament, and as a diplomat in Milan, where he encountered the writings of Dante and Boccaccio. At the same time, the book offers a comprehensive exploration of Chaucer's writings, taking the reader to the Troy of Troilus and Criseyde, the gardens of the dream visions, and the peripheries and thresholds of The Canterbury Tales. By exploring the places Chaucer visited, the buildings he inhabited, the books he read, and the art and objects he saw, this landmark biography tells the extraordinary story of how a wine merchant's son became the poet of The Canterbury Tales." -- Publisher's description.
Author : Peter G. Beidler
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476618289
With his Miller’s Tale, Chaucer transformed a colorless Middle Dutch account into the lively, dramatic story of raunchy Nicholas, sexy Alison, foolish John and squeamish Absolon. This book focuses on the ways Chaucer made his narrative more effective through dialogue, scene division, music, visual effects and staging. The author pays special attention to the description of John the carpenter’s house, the suspension of the three tubs from the beams, and the famous shot-window through which the story’s bawdy climax is enacted. The book’s second half covers more than 30 of the tale’s retellings—translations, adaptations, bowdlerized versions for children, coloring books, novels, musicals, plays and films—and examines the ways the retellers have followed Chaucer in dramatizing the story, giving it new life on stage and screen. The Miller’s Tale has had many lives—it promises to have many more.
Author : Marilyn Sutton
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780802047441
The Chaucer Bibliography series aims to provide annotated bibliographies for all of Chaucer's work. This book summarizes 20th-century commentaries on Chaucer's "Pardoner's Prologue" and "Tale."
Author : Jill Mann
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780859916134
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 : Megan E. Murton
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843845591
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.
