Author: Heather Blurton
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 047213034X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
Reinvigorating the scholarly debate surrounding approaches to one of Chaucer's most notorious tales
The Critics and the Prioress
Author: Heather Blurton
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 047213034X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
Reinvigorating the scholarly debate surrounding approaches to one of Chaucer's most notorious tales
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 047213034X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
Reinvigorating the scholarly debate surrounding approaches to one of Chaucer's most notorious tales
Chaucer Criticism
Author: Richard J. Schoeck
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Sixteen essays offer diverse interpretations of the artistry, imagery and themes found within Chaucer's monumental work.
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Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Sixteen essays offer diverse interpretations of the artistry, imagery and themes found within Chaucer's monumental work.
Chaucer
Author: Marion Turner
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691210152
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
"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.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691210152
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
"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.
Twentieth-Century Chaucer Criticism
Author: Kathy Cawsey
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131700583X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Shifting ideas about Geoffrey Chaucer's audience have produced radically different readings of Chaucer's work over the course of the past century. Kathy Cawsey, in her book on the changing relationship among Chaucer, critics, and theories of audience, draws on Michel Foucault's concept of the 'author-function' to propose the idea of an 'audience function' which shows the ways critics' concepts of audience affect and condition their criticism. Focusing on six trend-setting Chaucerian scholars, Cawsey identifies the assumptions about Chaucer's audience underpinning each critic's work, arguing these ideas best explain the diversity of interpretation in Chaucer criticism. Further, Cawsey suggests few studies of Chaucer's own understanding of audience have been done, in part because Chaucer criticism has been conditioned by scholars' latent suppositions about Chaucer's own audience. In making sense of the confusing and conflicting mass of modern Chaucer criticism, Cawsey also provides insights into the development of twentieth-century literary criticism and theory.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131700583X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Shifting ideas about Geoffrey Chaucer's audience have produced radically different readings of Chaucer's work over the course of the past century. Kathy Cawsey, in her book on the changing relationship among Chaucer, critics, and theories of audience, draws on Michel Foucault's concept of the 'author-function' to propose the idea of an 'audience function' which shows the ways critics' concepts of audience affect and condition their criticism. Focusing on six trend-setting Chaucerian scholars, Cawsey identifies the assumptions about Chaucer's audience underpinning each critic's work, arguing these ideas best explain the diversity of interpretation in Chaucer criticism. Further, Cawsey suggests few studies of Chaucer's own understanding of audience have been done, in part because Chaucer criticism has been conditioned by scholars' latent suppositions about Chaucer's own audience. In making sense of the confusing and conflicting mass of modern Chaucer criticism, Cawsey also provides insights into the development of twentieth-century literary criticism and theory.
Five Hundred Years of Chaucer Criticism and Allusion (1357-1900)
Author: Caroline Frances Eleanor Spurgeon
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 830
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 830
Book Description
five hundred years of chaucer criticism and allusion
Author: Caroline Frances Eleanor Spurgeon
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Chaucer and the Energy of Creation
Author: Edward I. Condren
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780813016795
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
Using extant manuscripts as his starting point, Edward Condren argues that the overall design of the Canterbury Tales has a structural parallel with Dante's Commedia. He demonstrates how individual tales support this design and how the design itself confers rich meaning, in some instances investing with new complexity tales that otherwise have been little appreciated.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780813016795
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
Using extant manuscripts as his starting point, Edward Condren argues that the overall design of the Canterbury Tales has a structural parallel with Dante's Commedia. He demonstrates how individual tales support this design and how the design itself confers rich meaning, in some instances investing with new complexity tales that otherwise have been little appreciated.
Chaucer
Author: David B. Raybin
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9780271035673
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
"Eleven essays that explore how modern scholarship interprets Chaucer's writings"--Provided by publisher.
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9780271035673
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
"Eleven essays that explore how modern scholarship interprets Chaucer's writings"--Provided by publisher.
Five Hundred Years of Chaucer Criticism and Allusion (1357-1900)
Author: Caroline Frances Eleanor Spurgeon
Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Five Hundred Years of Chaucer Criticism and Allusion: Parts II and III
Author: Caroline Frances Eleanor Spurgeon
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description