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Author : Florence H. Ridley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105012303249
Author : Heather Blurton,Hannah Johnson
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 51,7 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 : Frank Grady
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107181007
A lively and accessible introduction to the variety, depth, and wonder of Chaucer's best-known poem.
Author : Stephen Henry Rigby,Alastair J. Minnis
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199689545
As literary scholars have long insisted, an interdisciplinary approach is vital if modern readers are to make sense of works of medieval literature. In particular, rather than reading the works of medieval authors as addressing us across the centuries about some timeless or ahistorical 'human condition', critics from a wide range of theoretical approaches have in recent years shown how the work of poets such as Chaucer constituted engagements with the power relations and social inequalities of their time. Yet, perhaps surprisingly, medieval historians have played little part in this 'historical turn' in the study of medieval literature. The aim of this volume is to allow historians who are experts in the fields of economic, social, political, religious, and intellectual history the chance to interpret one of the most famous works of Middle English literature, Geoffrey Chaucer's 'General Prologue' to the Canterbury Tales, in its contemporary context. Rather than resorting to traditional historical attempts to see Chaucer's descriptions of the Canterbury pilgrims as immediate reflections of historical reality or as portraits of real life people whom Chaucer knew, the contributors to this volume have sought to show what interpretive frameworks were available to Chaucer in order to make sense of reality and how he adapted his literary and ideological inheritance so as to engage with the controversies and conflicts of his own day. Beginning with a survey of recent debates about the social meaning of Chaucer's work, the volume then discusses each of the Canterbury pilgrims in turn. Historians on Chaucer should be of interest to all scholars and students of medieval culture whether they are specialists in literature or history.
Author : Manish Sharma
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487539566
The Logic of Love in The Canterbury Tales argues that Geoffrey Chaucer’s magnum opus draws inventively on the resources of late medieval logic to conceive of love as an "insoluble." Philosophers of the fourteenth century expended great effort to solve insolubilia, like the notorious Liar paradox, in order to decide upon their truth or falsity. For Chaucer, however, and in keeping with Christ’s admonition from the Sermon on the Mount, the lover does not judge – does not decide on – the beloved. Through a series of detailed and rigorously "non-judgmental" readings, Manish Sharma provides new insight into each of the prologues and tales and intervenes into scholarly debates about their collective import. In so doing, The Logic of Love in The Canterbury Tales deploys Chaucer’s understanding of charity to consider the limitations of modern critical approaches to The Canterbury Tales, including deconstruction, psychoanalysis, and gender theory. In the course of the analysis, Sharma shows not only how love and medieval philosophy together inform Chaucerian composition, but also how Chaucer could serve as a resource for contemporary theoretical reflections on love and ethics.
Author : Susan Nakley
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780472130443
Nationalism, like medieval romance literature, recasts history as a mythologized and seamless image of reality. Living in the Future analyzes how the anachronistic nationalist fantasies in Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales create a false sense of England’s historical continuity that in turn legitimized contemporary political ambitions. This book spells out the legacy of the Tales that still resonates throughout English literature, exploring the idea of England in the medieval literary imagination as well as critiquing more recent centuries’ conceptions of Chaucer’s nationalism. Chaucer uses two extant national ideals, sovereignty and domesticity, to introduce the concept of an English nation into the contemporary popular imagination and reinvent an idealized England as a hallowed homeland. For nationalist thinkers, sovereignty governs communities with linguistic, historical, cultural, and religious affinities. Chaucerian sovereignty appears primarily in romantic and household contexts that function as microcosms of the nation, reflecting a pseudo-familial love between sovereign and subjects and relying on a sense of shared ownership and judgment. This notion also has deep affinities with popular and political theories flourishing throughout Europe. Chaucer’s internationalism, matched with his artistic use of the vernacular and skillful distortions of both time and space, frames a discrete sovereign English nation within its diverse interconnected world. As it opens up significant new points of resonance between postcolonial theories and medieval ideas of nationhood, Living in the Future marks an important contribution to medieval literary studies. It will be essential for scholars of Middle English literature, literary history, literary political and postcolonial theory, and literary transnationalism.
Author : Henry Ansgar Kelly
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000948547
These essays, in a second collection by Professor Kelly, investigate legal and religious subjects touching on the age and places in which Geoffrey Chaucer lived and wrote, especially as reflected in the more contemporary sections of the Canterbury Tales. Topics include the canon law of incest (consanguinity, affinity, spiritual kinship), the prosecution of sexual offences and regulation of prostitution (especially in the Stews of Southwark), legal opinions about wife-beating, and the laws of nature concerning gender distinction (focusing on Chaucer's Pardoner) and the technicalities of castration. Sacramental and devotional practices are discussed, especially dealing with confession and penitence and the Mass. Chaucer's Prioress serves as the starting point for a treatment of regulations of nuns in medieval England and also for the presence, real and virtual, of Jews and Saracens (Muslims and pagans) in England and conversion efforts of the time, as well as sympathetic or antipathetic attitudes towards non-Christians. Included is a case study on the legend of St Cecilia in Chaucer and elsewhere, and as patron of music; and a discussion of canonistic opinion on the licit limits of medicinal magic (in connection with the ministrations of John the Carpenter in the Miller's Tale).
Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages
ISBN : NYPL:33433112024983
Author : C. David Benson,Elizabeth Ann Robertson
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0859913023
These thirteen essays by distinguished Chaucerians deal with the most neglected genre of the 'Canterbury Tales', the religious tales. Although the prose works are also discussed, the primary focus of the volume is on Chaucer's four poems in rhyme royal: the 'Clerk's Tale', the 'Man of Law's Tale', the 'Second Nun's Tale' and the 'Prioress's Tale'. Almost all of Chaucer's tales are religious in some sense, but these four works deal specifically and deeply with faith and spiritual transcendence. They appeal to qualities, such as pathos, not now in critical fashion, but at the same time they seem extraordinarily contemporary in their special interest in women and feminist issues. The time is appropriate to recognise their importance in Chaucer's canon, for he is a religious poet as surely as he is a poet of comedy and secular love. These essays survey past criticism on the religious tales and offer new approaches.Contributors: C.DAVID BENSON, ELIZABETH ROBINSON, DEREK PEARSALL, BARBARA NOLAN, ROBERT WORTH FRANK, LINDA GEORGIANNA, CHARLOTTE C. MORSEA.S.G. EDWARDS, CAROLYN COLETTE, ELIZABETH D. KIRK, GEORGE R. KEISER, JANE COWGILL.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Civilization, Medieval
ISBN : UCSD:31822030180632
Author : John Rylands University Library of Manchester
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015051641390
Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Franklin Classics
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1922
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PRNC:32101068149721
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Author : Sylvia Townsend Warner
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780241454824
'One of the great British novels of the twentieth century: a narrative of extraordinary reach, power and beauty' Sarah Waters The nuns who enter a medieval Norfolk convent are told to renounce the world, but the world still finds ways to trouble them, whether it is through fire, floods, pestilence, a collapsing spire, jealous rivalries, a priest with a secret or a plague of caterpillars. As we follow their daily lives over three centuries, this masterpiece of historical fiction re-creates a world run by women. 'As an act of imagined history this novel has few rivals. Also, as it happens, a work of high, frequent comedy' George Steiner, The Times Literary Supplement 'Spellbinding . . . One starts rereading as soon as one has reached the last page' Sunday Times 'Magnificent' Philip Hensher, Daily Telegraph
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Humanities
ISBN : STANFORD:36105014846443
Author : Jacob Lassner
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472130368
A compelling consideration of Jerusalem during the formative period of Islamic civilization