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Author | : J. D. Burnley |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0859910512 |
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This book is designed to explore the various kinds of association found in Chaucer's lexical usage, and so to alert the reader to the wider implications of particular words and phrases. By concentrating on the `architecture' of the language, Dr Burnley offers what is in some respects an antidote to the skilled contextual glossing of the editor, whose activities may often obscure important connections. Such connections are vital to the interpretation of any work as a whole, and awareness of them is what distinguishes the scholar from the student who can `translate' Chaucer perfectly adequately without being aware of deeper meanings. Even apparently simple words such as l>cruel, mercy/l>and l>pity/l>can often carry subtle echoes and overtones. Dr Burnley is particularly concerned with words which carry some l>conceptual/l>association, and thus with moral stereotypes inherited from classical and early medieval philosophy, which formed the currency of both secular and religious ideals of conduct in the Middle Ages. His prime concern is to identify the themes and symbols and their characteristic language, and thus to provide a firm basis for critical investigation in Chaucer's literary use of this material.
Author | : Simon Horobin |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780859917803 |
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A study of the language of Chaucerian manuscripts, printed editions and Chaucer's 15th century followers. Winner of the 2005 Beatrice White Prize for outstanding scholarly work in the field of English literature before 1590 The manuscript copies of Chaucer's works preserve valuable information concerning Chaucer's linguistic practices and the ways in which scribes responded to these. This book draws on recent developments in Middle English dialectology, textual criticism and the application of computers to manuscript studies to assess the evidence Chaucerian manuscripts provide for reconstructing Chaucer's own language and his linguistic environment. This book considershow scribes, editors and Chaucerian poets transmitted and updated Chaucer's language and the implications of this for our understanding of Chaucerian book production and reception, and the processes of linguistic change in the fifteenth century. Winner of the 2005 Beatrice White Prize for outstanding scholarly work in the field of English literature before 1590 SIMON HOROBIN lectures on English language at the University of Glasgow.
Author | : Charles Muscatine |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : Comparative literature |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Kathryn L. Lynch |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780859916004 |
Download Chaucer's Philosophical Visions Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
New readings of Chaucer's dream visions, demonstrating his philosophical interests and learning.
Author | : C. David Benson |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9780859913027 |
Download Chaucer's Religious Tales Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 | : William T. Rossiter |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1843842157 |
Download Chaucer and Petrarch Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
First full study of Chaucer's readings and translations of Petrarch suggests a far greater influence than has hitherto been accepted.
Author | : Laura Fulkerson Hodges |
Publisher | : DS Brewer |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781843840336 |
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A detailed discussion of the meaning and significance of the terms used to describe the clothing of Chaucer's religious and academic pilgrims. Religious and academic dress in the middle ages functioned as a metaphorical signifier of spiritual and intellectual standards, implied a given social status, signalled the rejection or possession of garment wealth, and, in the details, suggested the wearer's spiritual state. This book presents the first sustained analysis of the characterizing dress worn by Chaucer's pilgrims who are in holy orders and/or affiliated with universities; the author uses approaches from a variety of disciplines [received criticism of late medieval literature, developments in political, economic and social history, the visual arts, and material culture] in order to present the complex ideas and rhetoric the pilgrims' dress expresses. She also makes the religious, intellectual, and material culture of Chaucer's day accessible to modern audiences through the reconstruction of the significance of fabrics, dyes, accessories, garments, and assembled costumes, and an explanation of technical details and specialist vocabularies for cloth-making, clothing, accessories, and their images in the visual arts.
Author | : Piero Boitani |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 1986-07-31 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521311496 |
Download English Medieval Narrative in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In this detailed study of English narrative verse the author describes and analyses the undisputed masterpieces of narrative (such as the works of the Gawain poet, Langland, Gower and Chaucer), as well as anonymous romances and specimens of religious and comic narrative which form the background to more well-known poems.
Author | : Robert W. Hanning |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 2022-01-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0192894757 |
Download Boccaccio, Chaucer, and Stories for an Uncertain World Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A comparative study of Boccaccio's Decameron and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales that explores the differences and similarities between the worlds that are portrayed by each text, with a focus on the strategies and limits of personal agency, and the significance and social dynamics of story-telling.
Author | : Laurel Brinton |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 2017-09-25 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110525321 |
Download Middle English Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The volume provides a wide-ranging account of Middle English, organized by linguistic level. Not only are the traditional areas of linguistic study explored in state-of-the-art chapters, but the volume also covers less traditional areas of study, including creolization, sociolinguistics, literary language (including the language of Chaucer), pragmatics and discourse, dialectology, standardization, language contact, and multilingualism.