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Author | : John P. McCall |
Publisher | : Penn State University Press |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
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A description of Chaucer's adaptation of classical materials to various uses--comedy, tragedy, and allegory; theme, action, and character--this book is also an analysis of Chaucer's poetics. Chaucer's creative use of the classical past is shown as a central part of his virtuosity. The book begins with a general discussion of the medieval traditions of classical myth, showing how Chaucer made himself the first humanist of English literature--opening to England both the ancient world of Virgil, Ovid, and Lucan and also the contemporary perceptions of that world by such continental masters as Dante, Graunson, Boccaccio, and Froissart. Succeeding chapters move through the categories of Chaucer's aesthetic uses of classical materials in specific poems: brief allusions, adaptations of myth to moral allegory, references to places, and lampoons of classical divinities. Professor McCall concludes by contrasting Chaucer's "rhetorics of fragmentation and discontinuity" with those of modern writers. Today such rhetorics have a despairing or apocalyptic tone. For Chaucer they conveyed "patient acceptance of the world and one's own self."
Author | : John P. MacCall |
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Release | : 1979 |
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Author | : Geoffrey Chaucer |
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Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 1833 |
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Author | : Barbara Apstein |
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Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1971 |
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Author | : Vincent August Lopresti |
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Total Pages | : 482 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Gods in literature |
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Author | : Geoffrey Chaucer |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2005-09-29 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0141966793 |
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The most complete of all remaining surviving fragments sections of The Canterbury Tales, the First Fragment contains some of Chaucer's most widely enjoyed work. In The General Prologue, Chaucer introduces his pilgrims through a set of speaking portraits, drawn with a clarity that makes no attempt to conceal their peculiarities. The four tales that follow - those of the Knight, Miller, Reeve and Cook - reveal a wide variety of human preoccupations: whether chivalrous, romantic or simply sexual. Brilliantly bawdy and subtly complex, each of these tales is alive with Chaucer's skills as a poet, storyteller and creator of comedy.
Author | : Ruth Morse |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2006-11-02 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521031493 |
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An important collection of essays which will be of interest to teachers and students of Chaucer.
Author | : Carl C. Curtis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Fiction |
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Chaucer's A Knight's Tale is primarily a poem about the world, symbolized by Athens, based upon ancient ideals of philosophy, politics, and, ultimately, theology, in which men who try to act upon these ideals find themselves in crises that undermine the very ideals in which they have placed their confidence. This failure emphasizes the pagan misunderstanding of the nature of the world, implicitly a misunderstanding that can be rectified only by Christianity. Hence, Chaucer's tale is placed squarely within the context of the Christian pilgrimage of The Canterbury Tales. The study of Chaucer's plan for approaching and understanding this deficient world follows involves five major points: first, the medieval interest in classical thought; second, the presence in the poem of the pagan concerns for heroism, fame, virtue, and immortality, all contributing to the ancient search for the best life; third, Chaucer's use of allegory; fourth, the ordering of Athens in accordance with the classical concept of order (chiefly the order of the soul); the fifth, the collapse of that order, underscoring the deficiencies of classical antiquity mirrored in its failure. In pursuing this train of thought, Chaucer does not merely dismiss paganism as ungodliness, but rather offers an analysis of its virtues-those of order and love-and shows how they might be more fully realized within the order of Christendom
Author | : Vincent August Lopresti |
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Total Pages | : 458 |
Release | : 1969 |
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Author | : Robert Temple |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022-02 |
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ISBN | : 9781913378028 |
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