The Essential Chaucer
Author | : Mark Edward Allen |
Publisher | : Macmillan Reference USA |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Mark Edward Allen |
Publisher | : Macmillan Reference USA |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Mark Edward Allen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Tison Pugh |
Publisher | : University Press of Florida |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2013-04-23 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0813048354 |
Geoffrey Chaucer is widely considered the father of English literature. This introduction begins with a review of his life and the cultural milieu of fourteenth-century England and then expands into analyses of such major works as The Parliament of Fowls, Troilus and Criseyde, and, of course, the Canterbury Tales, examining them alongside a selection of lesser known verses.
Author | : Geoffrey Chaucer |
Publisher | : OXFORD |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009-12-17 |
Genre | : Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages |
ISBN | : 9780194247580 |
A retelling of five of Chaucer's classic tales in simplified language for new readers. Includes activities to enhance reading comprehension and improve vocabulary.
Author | : Geoffrey Chaucer |
Publisher | : eBookIt.com |
Total Pages | : 2589 |
Release | : 2013-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1456614541 |
Compiled in one book, the essential collection of books by Geoffrey Chaucer in Middle English: The Canterbury Tales The Book of the Duchess The House of Fame Anelida and Arcite The Parliament of Fowls Boece Troilus and Criseyde The Legend of Good Women The Shorter Poems A Treatise on the Astrolabe The Romaunt of the Rose
Author | : Amanda Holton |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2016-12-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 135188168X |
Focusing on four aspects of Chaucer's poetics-use of narrative, speech, rhetoric, and figurative language-this is the first book-length study to identify Chaucer's distinctive poetic strategies by making specific comparisons with known textual sources. The author provides a combination of analysis of both poetic stylistics and sources, reading The Legend of Good Women and five of The Canterbury Tales (The Knight's Tale, The Man of Law's Tale, The Physician's Tale, The Monk's Tale, and The Manciple's Tale) against their textual sources, including Ovid's Metamorphoses and Heroides, Boccaccio's Teseida, Virgil's Aeneid, Le Roman de la Rose, and histories by Nicholas Trevet and Guido delle Colonne. Holton provides a picture of Chaucer's habits as a writer, showing that he was consistent in asserting his own techniques against the pressure of his sources and in keeping control over words and their meaning.
Author | : Robert Epstein |
Publisher | : University of Wales Press |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2018-02-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1786831708 |
Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, the most celebrated literary work of medieval England, portrays the culture of the late Middle Ages as a deeply commercial environment, replete with commodities and dominated by market relationships. However, the market is not the only mode of exchange in Chaucer’s world or in his poem. Chaucer’s Gifts reveals the gift economy at work in the tales. Applying important recent advances in anthropological gift theory, it illuminates and explains this network of exchanges and obligations. Chaucer’s Gifts argues that the world of the Canterbury Tales harbours deep commitments to reciprocity and obligation which are at odds with a purely commercial culture, and demonstrates how the market and commercial relations are not natural, eternal, or inevitable – an essential lesson if we are to understand Chaucer’s world or our own.
Author | : Daniel Pinti |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2016-12-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1317944992 |
This volume makes available to teachers, students, and scholars a convenient selection of the most provocative and influential articles from the past 20 years on Chaucer's afterlife in the 15th century, one of the most dynamic topics in Chaucer studies today. Much recent work in the field of Chaucer studies has shown how our understanding of Chaucer's poetry is mediated by his 15th-century readers and scribes. Increased scholarly interest in various 15th-century Chaucerian poets-notably Hoccleve, Lydgate, and Henryson-has prompted medievalists to read these sometimes neglected poems anew The classic essays in this volume, plus two written just for this collection, investigate the scribes, glossators, and poets whose reception and transmission of Chaucer's writings influence our own reading of them today, focusing chiefly on the Chaucerian influence in their poetry. Written by eminent Chaucer scholars, these essays cover not only a wide range of Chaucer's writings, but also touch on the history of the English language, the glosses to Chaucer's poetry, English and Scottish poets' appropriations of Chaucer, the implicit criticism and interpretations of Chaucer's writings in the 15th century, and the first printing of Chaucer's works by William Caxton Timely and unique, this collection will prove indispensable for research libraries, a convenient and valuable resource for scholars, and an essential introduction for students.
Author | : Marion Turner |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 626 |
Release | : 2020-09-22 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0691210152 |
"More than any other canonical English writer, Geoffrey Chaucer lived and worked at the centre of political life--yet his poems are anything but conventional. Edgy, complicated, and often dark, they reflect a conflicted world, and their astonishing diversity and innovative language earned Chaucer renown as the father of English literature. Marion Turner, however, reveals him as a great European writer and thinker. To understand his accomplishment, she reconstructs in unprecedented detail the cosmopolitan world of Chaucer's adventurous life, focusing on the places and spaces that fired his imagination. Uncovering important new information about Chaucer's travels, private life, and the early circulation of his writings, this innovative biography documents a series of vivid episodes, moving from the commercial wharves of London to the frescoed chapels of Florence and the kingdom of Navarre, where Christians, Muslims, and Jews lived side by side. The narrative recounts Chaucer's experiences as a prisoner of war in France, as a father visiting his daughter's nunnery, as a member of a chaotic Parliament, and as a diplomat in Milan, where he encountered the writings of Dante and Boccaccio. At the same time, the book offers a comprehensive exploration of Chaucer's writings, taking the reader to the Troy of Troilus and Criseyde, the gardens of the dream visions, and the peripheries and thresholds of The Canterbury Tales. By exploring the places Chaucer visited, the buildings he inhabited, the books he read, and the art and objects he saw, this landmark biography tells the extraordinary story of how a wine merchant's son became the poet of The Canterbury Tales." -- Publisher's description.
Author | : Lee Patterson |
Publisher | : Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages | : 508 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780299128340 |
Chaucer's interest in individuality was strikingly modern. He was aware of the pressures on individuality exerted by the past and by society - by history. Chaucer investigated not just the idea of history but the historical world intimately related to his own political and literary career. This book has shaped the way that Chaucer is read.