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Author : Wendy Harding
Publisher : Presses Univ. du Mirail
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 2858167052
Author : C. David Benson
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0807816795
Chaucer's Drama of Style: Poetic Variety and Contrast in the Canterbury Tales
Author : Gerd Bayer,Ebbe Klitgard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781136821257
This book analyzes how narrative technique developed from the late Middle Ages to the beginning of the eighteenth-century. The contributors address issues such as subjectivity, performance, voice, narrative time, character development and genre, placing their readings of early modern prose texts within the diachronic frame of the overall topic. Individual chapters will treat texts from a variety of genres, offering analyses of individual texts in the context of changes and developments within literary forms. The book in its entirety will cover a period of approximately 350 years, from 1370 to 1720.
Author : Maik Goth
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Iago (Fictitious character)
ISBN : 3631564651
In The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages the American critic Harold Bloom claims that Shakespeare drew on Chaucer's Pardoner when creating the villain Iago for his Othello. This book turns Bloom's observation of influences within the canon of Western literature into a more complex intermedial analysis of dramatic and literary traditions at the waning of the Middle Ages and the dawn of the Renaissance. The discussion of verbal and non-verbal codes in Chaucer's presentation of the Pardoner and Shakespeare's depiction of Iago sheds light on the various strands of the Vice's development, and shows that Chaucer's pilgrim, who descends obliquely from the stage Vices, stands at the very beginning of the Vice tradition, while Iago is a late development of him, who adapts his role to new dramatic challenges.
Author : R. M. Lumiansky
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781477301265
Two hundred years before Shakespeare observed that “all the world’s a stage,” another writer with a flair for drama realized the same fact. This writer was Geoffrey Chaucer. Chaucer, however, presented his dramatic efforts through the medium of short stories, and he is regularly referred to as one of the world’s great storytellers. Yet there are certain questions which arise time and again in the minds of literary scholars. Most of the tales in the Canterbury collection are excellent, but why did Chaucer include such obviously poor recitals as the dull “Melibeus” and the lengthy “Parson’s Tale”? Did he fail to recognize their lack of literary merit? Or were those of his stories which seem so dull to modern readers really popular in fourteenth-century England? Of Sondry Folk is Lumiansky’s answer to such questions. But it is more than that. It is the revelation of Chaucer as dramatic writer. Chaucer, says Lumiansky, did not intend primarily to tell a series of good tales. Instead, he chose tales which suited his purpose of dramatic exposition of character. And the characters, though drawn from many walks of life, are not stereotypes. Their tales not only disclose what the Pilgrims think of themselves but reveal these Pilgrims as they really are—dull, romantic, egotistical, pious, or lustful. Not all readers will agree with Lumiansky’s conclusions in this book. But his scholarship, his clear, uninvolved prose, and his wit and frankness make of it an excellent handbook for the student of the Canterbury Tales. Of Sondry Folk will increase the enjoyment and understanding of Chaucer’s art for any reader, lay or scholarly.
Author : Heather Blurton,Hannah Johnson
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780472130344
Reinvigorating the scholarly debate surrounding approaches to one of Chaucer's most notorious tales
Author : Kathy Cawsey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317005834
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 : Benson C. David
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0807816868
Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages
ISBN : 0713902620
A group of pilgrims bound for Canterbury Cathedral agree to pass the weary miles by taking turns at storytelling -- thus begins English literature's greatest collection of chivalric romances, bawdy tales, fables, legends, and other stories. The 14th-century pilgrims represent a range of philosophies, professions, and temperaments, and their vivid, realistic characterizations assured the "Tales "an instant and enduring success. Each pilgrim's story can be read separately and appreciated in its own right; all appear here in a lucid translation into modern English verse by J. U. Nicholson.
Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : BookCaps Study Guides
Page : 1400 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-21
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781621074595
Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales" is epic in everyway; it have love, humor, history, religion--it has it all! Who wouldn't want to read this true classic? Unfortunately, reading it and understanding it can be two very different things because the English often just does not make sense to the modern reader. Let BookCaps help with this modern translation. If you have struggled in the past reading old English, then BookCaps can help you out. We all need refreshers every now and then. Whether you are a student trying to cram for that big final, or someone just trying to understand a book more, BookCaps can help. We are a small, but growing company, and are adding titles every month.
Author : Greg Walker
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748681037
This study demonstrates the value of historical and cultural analysis alongside traditional literary scholarship for enriching our understanding of plays and poems from the medieval and early Tudor past and of the cultures which produced and received them
Author : S. Chaganti
Publisher : Springer
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230615380
Through interdisciplinary readings of medieval literature and devotional artifacts, The Medieval Poetics of the Reliquary shows how reliquaries shaped ideas about poetry and poetics in late-medieval England.
Author : G. Gust
Publisher : Springer
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009-05-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230621619
This book examines the scholarly construction of Geoffrey Chaucer in different historical eras, and challenges long-standing assumptions to enhance the theoretical dialogue on Chaucer's historical reception.
Author : T. Pugh
Publisher : Springer
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2008-02-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230610521
This book exposes the ways in which ostensibly normative sexualities depend upon queerness to shore up their claims of privilege. Through readings of such classic texts as The Canterbury Tales and Eger and Grime , Tison Pugh explains how sexual normativity can often be claimed only after queerness has been rejected.
Author : Anna Baldwin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350310056
This is a comprehensive guide to a literary period characterized by great variety and imagination, and vividly alert to the social transformations overtaking society. Spanning almost two centuries, it introduces the reader to a diverse range of authors writing for a fast-developing readership of both men and women. Each chapter focuses on a group of genres primarily associated with a particular social class – from the Drama and Saints' Lives accessible to the illiterate, to the sophisticated Romances of Love savoured by the aristocracy and the Court. Lively historical narratives place each group of texts in their social, political and cultural contexts. Significant or typical texts are given more detailed analysis that includes critical issues and questions to guide the reader's own approach, and each section is supported by a detailed bibliography of further reading.