Chaucer and the Shape of Creation

Chaucer and the Shape of Creation PDF Author: Dr. Robert M. Jordan
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press
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Category : Aesthetics, Medieval, in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 334

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Chaucer and the Shape of Creation

Chaucer and the Shape of Creation PDF Author: Dr. Robert M. Jordan
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press
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Category : Aesthetics, Medieval, in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 334

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Chaucer and the shape of creation, by robert m. jordan

Chaucer and the shape of creation, by robert m. jordan PDF Author: Robert m Jordan
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Languages : en
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Chaucer and the Art of Storytelling

Chaucer and the Art of Storytelling PDF Author: Leonard Michael Koff
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520339223
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1988.

Chaucer's Pardoner's Prologue and Tale

Chaucer's Pardoner's Prologue and Tale PDF Author: Marilyn Sutton
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 0802047440
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 498

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The Chaucer Bibliography series aims to provide annotated bibliographies for all of Chaucer's work. This book summarizes 20th-century commentaries on Chaucer's "Pardoner's Prologue" and "Tale."

Chaucer's Approach to Gender in the Canterbury Tales

Chaucer's Approach to Gender in the Canterbury Tales PDF Author: Anne Laskaya
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 9780859914819
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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This volume presents a feminist approach to the Canterbury Tales, investigating the ways in which the tensions and contradictions found within the broad contours of medieval gender discourse write themselves into Chaucer's text. Four discourses of medieval masculinity are examined, which simultaneously reinforce and resist one another: heroic or chivalric, Christian, courtly love, and emerging humanist models. Each chapter attempts to negotiate both contemporary assumptions of gender construction, and essentialist readings of gender common to the middle ages; throughout, the author argues that the Canterbury Tales offer a sophisticated discussion of masculinity, and that it strongly indicts some of the prevalent medieval notions of ideal masculinity while still remaining firmly homosocial and homophobic. The book concludes that on the question of gender issues, the Tales are best studied as male-authored texts containing representations and negotiations revealing much about late medieval masculinities. Dr ANNE LASKAYA teaches in the English Department at the University of Oregon.

Chaucer's Dream Poetry

Chaucer's Dream Poetry PDF Author: Barry A. Windeatt
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 0859910725
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 190

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This volume makes available in translation the texts that lie behind Chaucer's dream poems - The Book of the Duchess, The Parliament of Fowls, The House of Fame and Prologue to the Legend of Good Women. Chaucer's dream poems are now being increasingly studied and appreciated. With their attractively bookish dreamer figure and their graceful use of conventions and traditions, they have their distinctive place in Chaucer's work. But the nodern reader of these medieval poems particularly needs a sense of their literary context in the tradition of comparable narrative poems - largely in OId French - which Chaucer knew and drew upon. None of these French poems has ever been made available in English translation before, and many of the texts are difficult to access, being available only in dated French scholarly editions. The authors represented are Froissart, Machaut and Deschamps, as well as some minor and anonymous poems, and there are also relevant translations from Cicero and Boccaccio. The book gives an idea of what Chaucer's sources were in themselves, and in what ways the English poet was inspired to use and go beyond them, and this presents a picture of the poet at work. Some of the French poems are translated carefully by Chaucer, while with other poems he is selective, interested in certain sections of his sources only. In further cases, the original material can be seen to have provided a more general point of departure for Chaucer's own developments on his work.

Chaucer's Poetics and the Modern Reader

Chaucer's Poetics and the Modern Reader PDF Author: Robert M. Jordan
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520331044
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1987.

Life and Times of Chaucer

Life and Times of Chaucer PDF Author: John Gardner
Publisher: Barnes & Noble Publishing
ISBN: 9780760712818
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 356

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English and International

English and International PDF Author: Elizabeth Salter
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521343755
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 410

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Elizabeth Salter's principal works and essays are collected here in one volume.

Patterns of Religious Narrative in the Canterbury Tales

Patterns of Religious Narrative in the Canterbury Tales PDF Author: Roger Ellis
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000681297
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 307

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Originally published in 1986. This study asks ‘What problems confront the narrator of a religious story?’ and ‘What different solutions to those problems are offered by the religious narratives of The Canterbury Tales?’ The introduction explains the grounds for inclusion of the tales here studied then examined in three sections. The first includes the tales of the Clerk, Prioress and Second Nun, and Chaucer’s Melibee, and explores the parallels between the production of a religious narrative and that of a faithful translation. The second considers how the tales of the Man of Law, Monk and Physician, though formally similar to those in the first section, subvert the offered parallel by their creation of narrators who actively mediate them to their audience, and who seem as concerned with the projection of their own personalities as with the transmission of the given story. The final section shows how the tales of the Pardoner and Nun’s Priest highlight the dilemma and provide distinctive resolutions. The whole study aims to explore the dynamic relationships that exist between two contrasting positions: an artist’s commitment to the authority of a given story and his need to assert himself over it.