Geoffrey Chaucer Authors In Context

Author : Peter Brown
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191620706

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Geoffrey Chaucer (Authors in Context) by Peter Brown Pdf

Chaucer lived through a period of extraordinary upheaval: a protracted war with France, devastating plague, the peasants' revolt, religious controversy, and the overthrow of the king. Compact and comprehensive, this book offers a wide-ranging account of the medieval society from which works such as The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde sprang, and shows how these and other works manifest that society in fictional form. Significant aspects of the literary scene, such as patronage, audience, and performance, help to place Chaucer's practices in their historical framework, and his treatment of love, paganism, and reality are framed within their intellectual and philosophical contexts. The modern reception of Chaucer in film and television adaptations is also examined. Seen through the lens of his cultural experience, this is the perfect critical companion to Chaucer's life and poetry. The book includes a chronology of Chaucer's life and time, suggestions for further reading, websites, illustrations, and a comprehensive index. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Author : Peter Brown
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780192804297

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Geoffrey Chaucer (Authors in Context) by Peter Brown Pdf

Presents an examination of the life and works of Geoffrey Chaucer along with a description of medieval society and how his works are depicted in film and television.

Author : Ian Johnson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107035645

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Geoffrey Chaucer in Context by Ian Johnson Pdf

Provides a rich and varied reference resource, illuminating the different contexts for Chaucer and his work.

Author : Derek Brewer
Publisher : D. S. Brewer
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0859912957

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Geoffrey Chaucer by Derek Brewer Pdf

Author : Patricia Ingham
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317881629

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The Brontes by Patricia Ingham Pdf

The novels of Charlotte and Emily Bronte have become canonical texts for the application of twentieth century literary and cultural theory. Along with the work of their sister, Anne, their texts are regarded as a sources of diversity in themselves, full of conflictual material which different schools of criticism have analysed and interpreted. This book shows how the Brontes writings engage with the major issues which dominate twentieth century theoretical work. The essays are grouped under broad schools of theory- biographical; feminist; marxist; psychoanalytical and postcolonial.

Author : S. H. Rigby
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,7 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 : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004546301

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Chaucer’s Translation of Boethius’s The Consolation of Philosophy by Anonim Pdf

This edition offers you the first Modern English version of Chaucer’s only previously untranslated major work, Boece. Boece is Chaucer’s Middle English translation of the 6th-century CE philosopher Boethius’s The Consolation of Philosophy. For over a thousand years, The Consolation underpinned Christian understanding of Fate, Fortune, Free Will, and Divine Providence, and its ideas influenced Chaucer’s major works. While many editions offer a Modern English translation from the original Latin, this edition gives you an approachable version of Chaucer’s translation and puts you face-to-face with his phrasings and emendations. Here, the father of English poetry’s voice finally speaks up, so you can enjoy his poetic turns and even track where the language from Boece echoes in The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde.

Author : Dieter Mehl
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1986-12-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521318882

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Geoffrey Chaucer by Dieter Mehl Pdf

This book is a lucid introduction and intelligent examination of Chaucer's narrative poetry.

Author : Marion Turner
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780691210155

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Chaucer by Marion Turner Pdf

"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 : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 905 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:258141547

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The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer by Geoffrey Chaucer Pdf

Author : Jacqueline de Weever
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135614539

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Chaucer Name Dictionary by Jacqueline de Weever Pdf

Praised by reviewers as highly recommended, indispensable, and thorough, comprehensive, usable, and unquestionably useful, theChaucer Name Dictionary is the ultimate A-Z guide to the writer who stands at the head of the English curriculum. It provides full information on all the hundreds of proper names mentioned throughout Chaucer and essential to an understanding of his works. Each entry provides historical and/or literary definition, references to occurrences in Chaucer's works with explanations of the context, a list of related words, etymology, and a bibliography of primary and secondary works. Special Features The only reference source that identifies the hundreds of historical, literary, and mythological names mentioned in Chaucer, Provides reliable background information essential to understanding Chaucer's text, Alphabetical arrangement and clear format allow quick answers to reference questions, Includes an important Glossary of Astronomical and Astrological Terms, along with six astrological maps Suitable for courses in:Chaucer, Medieval English Poetry, Medieval Literature in Translation, Old and Middle English Literature, Glossary Also includes maps.

Author : Piero Boitani,Jill Mann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521894670

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The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer by Piero Boitani,Jill Mann Pdf

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Author : David B. Raybin
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0271035676

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Chaucer by David B. Raybin Pdf

"Eleven essays that explore how modern scholarship interprets Chaucer's writings"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Ray Moore
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1481879049

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The General Prologue by Geoffrey Chaucer by Ray Moore Pdf

The present study is written for the for the high school and undergraduate student who reads the Prologue because it is on his/her syllabus, or for the general reader who simply wants to enjoy Chaucer. The analysis offered goes beyond that found in the ubiquitous 'Notes' (helpful as these are to the first-time reader) without getting into the esoteric detail of the specialist literature. It is written to dispel the misapprehension that only scholars can understand and appreciate a text written in Middle English. The intention is to give the reader the confidence to develop his/her own understanding of a work which is an essential part of the European literary heritage.

Author : Gerald J. Davis
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781365188015

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The Canterbury Tales, The New Translation by Gerald J. Davis Pdf

The classic collection of beloved tales, both sacred and profane, of travelers in medieval England. Complete and Unabridged.