Standing In The Shadow Of The Master Chaucerian Influences And Interpretations

Author : Kathleen A. Bishop with a Foreword by David Matthews
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-22
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781527553293

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Standing in the Shadow of the Master? Chaucerian Influences and Interpretations by Kathleen A. Bishop with a Foreword by David Matthews Pdf

Standing in the Shadow of the Master? Chaucerian Influences and Interpretations grew out of a session at the 2008 International Medieval Congress at the University of Leeds. In this volume Editor Kathleen A. Bishop brings together a collection of essays contributed by a talented and diverse group of scholars from the United States, Canada, and Europe. The articles question the traditional supremacy of Chaucer in the canon while also reaffirming the lasting impact of this great English writer of the Middle Ages. Topics covered include Shakespeare, Lydgate, Gower, Henryson, Douglas, Clanvowe, Bokenham, and the Gawain Poet, as well as a modern psychoanalytic assessment of the Wife of Bath, and a dialogue on making Chaucer relevant to undergraduates immersed in 21st century culture.

Author : K.P. Clarke,Sarah Baccianti
Publisher : Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780907570295

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On Light by K.P. Clarke,Sarah Baccianti Pdf

The essays assembled in this new volume explore the fascination of the Middle Ages with the mystery of light, and its central role in the period's thought and creativity. Spanning medieval theology, literature, science and material culture, the topics covered include the history of light (and, inseparably, darkness) as a literary figure, from the Latin Bible to Geoffrey Chaucer; theoretical speculations on colour, sight and blindness, and their unexpected fertilization of fields such as poetic imagery; medieval preachers' evocations of light as much more than merely figuring the moral and religious, from St. Simeon in the ninth century to John Fisher in the early sixteenth; indeed the belief that light possessed not only reality but physical materality, as manifested in artefacts such as the Gloucester Candlestick. On Light thereby reveals not only the importance of this phenomenon to diverse aspects of medieval culture, but profound and unremarked ways in which it helped to bind these into a whole.

Author : Isabel Davis,Catherine Nall
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781843844075

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Chaucer and Fame by Isabel Davis,Catherine Nall Pdf

The questions of fame and reputation are central to Chaucer's writings; the essays here discuss their various treatments and manifestations.

Author : Laurie Atkinson
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2024-03-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781843846925

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Ideas of Authorship in the English and Scottish Dream Vision by Laurie Atkinson Pdf

An investigation of English and Scottish dream visions written on the cusp of the "Renaissance", teasing out distinctive ideas of authorship which informed their design. The fifteenth and sixteenth centuries have long been acknowledged as a period of profound change in ideas of authorship, in which a transition from a "medieval" to a "modern" paradigm took place. In England and Scotland, changing approaches to Chaucer have rightly been considered as a catalyst for the elevation of English as a literary language and the birth of an English literary history. There is a tendency, however, when moving from Chaucer's self-professed poetic followers of this time to the philological approach associated with William Caxton and the 1532 Works, to pass over the literary careers of the English and Scots poets belonging to the intervening half-century: John Skelton, William Dunbar, Stephen Hawes, and Gavin Douglas. This volume redresses that neglect. Its close and comparative readings of these poets' stimulating but critically neglected dream visions and related first-person narratives reveal a spectrum of ideas of authorship: four distinct engagements with tradition and opportunity, united by their utilisation of a particular form. It regards authorship as a topic of invention, a discourse for appropriation, which is available to but not inevitable in late medieval and early modern writing. Overall, it facilitates newly focussed study of an often obscured literary-historical period, one with a heightened interest in the authors of the past - Chaucer, Lydgate, Petrarch, Virgil - but also an increasingly acute perception of the conditions of authorship in the present.

Author : Julia Boffey,A. S. G. Edwards
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198878513

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The Oxford History of Poetry in English by Julia Boffey,A. S. G. Edwards Pdf

The Oxford History of Poetry in English is designed to offer a fresh, multi-voiced, and comprehensive analysis of 'poetry': from Anglo-Saxon culture through contemporary British, Irish, American, and Global culture, including English, Scottish, and Welsh poetry, Anglo-American colonial and post-colonial poetry, and poetry in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Caribbean, India, Africa, Asia, and other international locales. The series both synthesizes existing scholarship and presents cutting-edge research, employing a global team of expert contributors for each of the fourteen volumes. This volume explores the developing range of English verse in the century after the death of Chaucer in 1400, years that saw both change and consolidation in traditions of poetic writing in English in the regions of Britain. Chaucer himself was an important shaping presence in the poetry of this period, providing a stimulus to imitation and to creative expansion of the modes he had favoured. In addition to assessing his role, this volume considers a range of literary factors significant to the poetry of the century, including verse forms, literary language, translation, and the idea of the author. It also signals features of the century's history that were important for the production of English verse: responses to wars at home and abroad, dynastic uncertainty, and movements towards religious reform, as well as technological innovations such as the introduction of printing, which brought influential changes to the transmission and reception of verse writing. The volume is shaped to include chapters on the contexts and forms of poetry in English, on the important genres of verse produced in the period, on some of the fifteenth-century's major writers (Lydgate, Hoccleve, Dunbar, and Henryson), and a consideration of the influence of the verse of this century on what was to follow.

Author : Guillemette Erne, Lukas Bolens
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783823366676

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Medieval and Early Modern Authorship by Guillemette Erne, Lukas Bolens Pdf

Author : David John Parkinson
Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781580444095

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Gavin Douglas, The Palyce of Honour by David John Parkinson Pdf

At the end of the fifteenth century, Gavin Douglas devised his ambitious dream vision The Palyce of Honour in part to signal a new scope to Scottish literary culture. While deeply versed in Chaucer's writings, Douglas identified Ovid's Metamorphoses as a particularly timely model in the light of contemporary humanist scholarship. For all its comedy, The Palyce of Honour stands as a reminder to James IV of Scotland that poetry casts a powerful light upon the arts of rule.

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-19
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781554810192

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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Anonymous Pdf

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a masterpiece of medieval English literature and one of the finest Arthurian tales in any language. Though its ingenious plotting and verbal artistry continue to dazzle readers, it is written in a challenging regional dialect and uses many words that were already archaic when the poem was written in the late fourteenth century. This edition is designed to make the poem, in its original Middle English, accessible to students and general readers. Following standards adopted for editing other Middle English poets, the edition lightly normalizes spellings to make words more recognizable for a modern audience. Extensive marginal glossing of difficult words, thorough on-page explanatory notes, and a comprehensive glossary offer further support for readers. The historical appendices include other examples of medieval romance from France and Britain.

Author : K. Terrell,M. Bruce
Publisher : Springer
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137108913

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The Anglo-Scottish Border and the Shaping of Identity, 1300–1600 by K. Terrell,M. Bruce Pdf

The Anglo-Scottish Border and the Shaping of Identity, 1350-1600 explores the roles that Scotland and England play in one another's imaginations. This collection of essays brings together eminent scholars and emerging voices from the frequently divergent fields of English and Scottish medieval studies.

Author : J. Derrick McClure,Janet Hadley Williams
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443867146

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Fresche fontanis by J. Derrick McClure,Janet Hadley Williams Pdf

Fresche fontanis contains twenty-five studies presenting major new research by leading scholars in Scottish culture of the late fourteenth and fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries. The three-part collection includes essays on the prominent writers of the period: James I, Robert Henryson, William Dunbar, John Bellenden, David Lyndsay, John Stewart of Baldynneis, William Fowler, Alexander Montgomerie, Andrew Melville and Alexander Craig. There are also essays on the Scottish romances Lancelot of the Laik, Gilbert Hay’s Buik of King Alexander the Conquerour, The Buik of Alexander, Golagros and Gawain, and the comedic Rauf Coilyear, and the Scottish fabliau The Freiris of Berwick. Chronicles of Fordun, Bower, Wyntoun and Bellenden receive fresh attention in essays concerning Margaret of Scotland, and imperial ideas during the reign of James V. Essays on anthologies, family books, and collaborative compilations make another notable group, providing in-depth analysis, with findings not previously reported, of The Book of the Dean of Lismore, the Maitland Quarto manuscript and The Delitiae Poetarum Scotorum. These studies are enlarged by others on key contextualizing topics, including noble and royal literary patronage, early Scottish printing, performance, spectatorship, and translation. Together they make a significant contribution to a full understanding of the continuities and shifts in cultural emphases during this most imaginatively productive period.

Author : Alice Spencer
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781443845373

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Language, Lineage and Location in the Works of Osbern Bokenham by Alice Spencer Pdf

This is the first book-length study to consider the works of Osbern Bokenham in the light of the discovery of his long-lost magnum opus, the so-called Abbotsford Legenda Aurea, in 2004. Bokenham is an author who, throughout his oeuvre, never tires of stressing his own marginality, historically (as the belated, inferior son of greater poets) and geographically (as an Englishman writing in the vernacular). Notwithstanding this, he negotiates with the very spatial and temporal perspectives which would seem to isolate him in such a way as to lay claim to an authentic and broad-reaching auctoritas for his own poetic voice. Throughout his oeuvre, Bokenham counters the patriarchal hegemonies of literary and political history by asserting an alternative, spiritually pristine matrilineage, which also serves to legitimise his own feminised vernacular tongue and national identity. He deploys the motifs of language, lineage and location in such a way that historical, geographical and gender marginality ultimately become grounds for exaltation, due to their deep-rooted spiritual integrity. Yet, beyond this, spatial and historical hierarchies and distinctions are ultimately dissolved through Bokenham’s increasingly daring vision of the inclusiveness of the communio sanctorum – of the continuously and universally binding force of exemplarity.

Author : David C. Ogden,Joel Nathan Rosen
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781617038136

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A Locker Room of Her Own by David C. Ogden,Joel Nathan Rosen Pdf

Profiles of superstar women athletes and the obstacles they face

Author : Joanna Martin,Emily Wingfield
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191091483

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Premodern Scotland by Joanna Martin,Emily Wingfield Pdf

Premodern Scotland: Literature and Governance 1420-1587 brings together original essays by a group of international scholars to offer fresh and ground-breaking research into the 'advice to princes' tradition and related themes of good self- and public governance in Older Scots literature, and in Latin literature composed in Scotland in the fifteenth, sixteenth, and early seventeenth centuries. The volume brings to the fore texts both from and about the royal court in a variety of genres, including satire, tragedy, complaint, dream vision, chronicle, epic, romance, and devotional and didactic treatise, and considers texts composed for noble readers and for a wider readership able to access printed material. The writers and texts studied include Bower's Scotichronicon, Henryson's Testament of Cresseid, and Gavin Douglas's Eneados. Lesser known authors and texts also receive much-needed critical attention, and include Richard Holland's, The Buke of the Howlat, chronicles by Andrew of Wyntoun, Hector Boece, and John Bellenden, and poetry by sixteenth-century writers such as Robert Sempill, John Rolland of Dalkeith, and William Lauder. Non-literary texts, such as the Parliamentary 'Aberdeen Articles' further deepen the discussion of the volume's theme. Writing from south of the Border, which provoked creative responses in Scots authors, and which were themselves inflected by the idea of Scotland and its literature, are also considered and include the Troy Book by John Lydgate, and Malory's Le Morte Darthur. With a focus on historical and material context, contributors explore the ways in which these texts engage with notions of the self and with advisory subjects both specific to particular Stewart monarchs and of more general political applicability in Scotland in the late medieval and early modern periods.

Author : James E. Person
Publisher : Literature Criticism from 1400
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0810379627

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Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800 by James E. Person Pdf

Presents literary criticism on the works of writers of the period 1400-1800. Critical essays are selected from leading sources, including published journals, magazines, books, reviews, diaries, broadsheets, pamphlets, and scholarly papers. Criticism includes early views from the author's lifetime as well as later views, including extensive collections of contemporary analysis.

Author : Grace E. Hadow
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066172572

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Chaucer and His Times by Grace E. Hadow Pdf

The life and times of the famous English poet, author, and civil servant Geoffrey Chaucer, regarded widely as the "father of English literature", or, alternatively, the "father of English poetry", is the subject of this book. Exploring the mystery of Chaucer's background, author and literary critic, Grace E. Hadow also looks at the works of Chaucer pointing out that Chaucer's diversity of works include prose poetry, ballades, as well as scientific and philosophical writings. Some of his famous works critiqued include: 'The Book of the Duchess', 'The House of Fame', 'The Legend of Good Women', 'Troilus and Criseyde', and, of course, his most famous work, 'The Canterbury Tales'.