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John Lane's Continuation of Chaucer's Squire's Tale

Frederick James Furnivall,Geoffrey Chaucer,John Lane
John Lane s Continuation of Chaucer s Squire s Tale Book PDF

Author : Frederick James Furnivall,Geoffrey Chaucer,John Lane
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1341068781

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John Lane's Continuation of Chaucer's Squire's Tale by Frederick James Furnivall,Geoffrey Chaucer,John Lane Pdf

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Eighteenth-century Modernizations from The Canterbury Tales

Geoffrey Chaucer
Eighteenth century Modernizations from The Canterbury Tales Book PDF

Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780859913096

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Eighteenth-century Modernizations from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer Pdf

This collection of 32 modernised versions of The Canterbury Tales which appeared in the 18th century offers basic material for studying the history of attitudes to Chaucer, and Chaucer scholarship, duringthe period. Reception data so precise and extensive is available only for Chaucer among English authors. At least seventeen known and anonymous writers produced thirty-two modernised Canterbury tales during the century, plus tale links and adaptations of each other's work. The present collection contains only modernisations that have not seen print since 1796, thus excluding those by Pope and Dryden. Although most works in this collection may be examined further in several British and American libraries, others cannot. Apparently only one copy has survived of an anonymous Miller's Tale (1791) with a thoughtful preface justifying the tale's overt sexuality published just as William Lipscomb was completing his 1795 edition that, in its preface, justifies exclusion from the pilgrimage of the notorious tales of Miller and Reeve. Such contrasting attitudes illustrate the dangers of generalisation about the usual reception or interpretation of Chaucer during this or any other socio-historic period; instead, the collection provides an untapped reservoir of material with which to investigate anew the rich complexity of his poetry and its enduring appeal. BETSY BOWDEN is Professor of English at Rutgers University, New Jersey.

The Squire's Tale

Geoffrey Chaucer
The Squire s Tale Book PDF

Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0806121548

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The Squire's Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer Pdf

Part Twelve In the list of scholarly problems it presents, The Squire’s Tale ranks among the highest in The Canterbury Tales. Being incomplete and coming to a halt on a baffling note-was it in fact evolving into a tale of incest?-the tale has undergone the most remarkable shift in critic acceptance of any of Chaucer’s works. This tale of oriental wonder, with its strong base in magic, excited the admiration of Chaucer’s contemporaries and inspired Spenser’s imitative speculation and Milton’s famous desire that the old poet be summoned up to finish his task. It retained for the eighteenth and most of the nineteenth centuries its Gothic fascination, being ranked with the very best of Chaucer’s work. In the second half of the twentieth century, it has been seen from a number of provocative perspectives. Is it a parody of the long Eastern romance? Is it a satire on the values of an aristocracy whose time is past? Is it a rhetorical joke on Chaucer’s part, extending the character of the young Squire into an earnest and somewhat naïve competition with his father, the Knight? The concerns of contemporary scholarship reveal as much about the critical temper of the time as about the work itself. On its own merits The Squire’s Tale compels our attention as an example of Chaucer’s wide-ranging and sometimes inscrutable genius. It provides us with an exotic literary type not otherwise represented in the Tales. It reverberates, in its discussion of ’gentilesse’ with other such discussions in Chaucer’s poetry; it demonstrates, in its use of the love-vision and the complaint, the experimental ways in which Chaucer handles the conventions of French poetry. Perhaps most fascinating is the range of Chaucer’s mind revealed by the casual uses of the science of his time: its knowledge of meteorology, optics, glass and metal work, astrology, and astronomy. The tale offers yet one more example of Chaucer’s genius at work, speaking to us in a voice that is at once suggestive, provocative, and mystifying as always.

Manmade Marvels in Medieval Culture and Literature

S. Lightsey
Manmade Marvels in Medieval Culture and Literature Book PDF

Author : S. Lightsey
Publisher : Springer
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2007-08-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230605640

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Manmade Marvels in Medieval Culture and Literature by S. Lightsey Pdf

This book examines marvels as tangible objects in the literary, courtly, and artisanal cultures of medieval England, but these clever devices, neither wholly semiotic nor purely positivist objects, are imbued with diverse cultural significance that illuminates in new ways the familiar literature of the Ricardian period.

The Legend of Guy of Warwick

Velma Bourgeois Richmond
The Legend of Guy of Warwick Book PDF

Author : Velma Bourgeois Richmond
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000525571

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The Legend of Guy of Warwick by Velma Bourgeois Richmond Pdf

First published in 1996. This lavishly illustrated study is a comprehensive literary and social history which offers a record of changing genres, manuscript/book production, and cultural, political, and religious emphases by examining one of the most long lived popular legends in England. Guy of Warwick became part of history when he was named in chronicles and heraldic rolls. The power of the Earls of Warwick, especially Richard de Beauchamp, inspired the spread of the legend, but Guy's highest fame came in the Renaissance as one of the Nine Worthies. Widely praised in texts and allusions, Guy's feats were sung in ballads and celebrated on the stage in England and France. The first Anglo-Norman romance of Gui de Warewic, a Saxon hero of the tenth century was written in the early 13th century; the latest retellings of the legend are contemporary. Examples of Guy's legend can be found in two English translations that survived the Middle Ages, a new French prose romance, a didactic tale in the Gesta Romanorum, and late medieval versions in Celtic, German, and Catalan, as well as English. Guy remained a favorite Edwardian children's story and was featured in the Warwick Pageant, an historical extravaganza of 1906. The patriotism of World War II sparked a resurgence of interest that produced several new versions, mostly folkloric.