Author: Christine Herold
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Category : Tragedy
Languages : en
Pages : 768
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Chaucer's Tragic Muse
Author: Christine Herold
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tragedy
Languages : en
Pages : 768
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tragedy
Languages : en
Pages : 768
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Chaucer's Tragic Muse
Author: Duane R. Carr
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Category : Tragedy
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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Category : Tragedy
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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Chaucer's Tragic Muse
Author: Christine Herold
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Category : Aesthetics, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
"This work significantly revises the history of literary tragedy. The first half examines the classical background regarding theories of tragedy - philosophical, theological, and literary. The second half investigates tragedy as it appears in various works of Chaucer. A pivotal central chapter demonstrates the previously missing link between Senecan and Chaucerian tragedy. Scholars of drama, especially Renaissance drama, will find this study indispensable, since it presents a challenge to the entrenched theories of the discovery of Senecan tragedy by Renaissance playwrights. It also argues that Boethius is explicitly in dialogue with the late Roman tradition, specifically Seneca, documenting a direct line of influence from Seneca's Latin plays, through the Consolation of Boethius, to de Meun, Boccaccio and Chaucer. It contributes a corrective to a persistent blind spot in medievalist criticism that would deny the integration of classical secular influences into medieval Christian thought." -- From publishers website.
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Category : Aesthetics, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
"This work significantly revises the history of literary tragedy. The first half examines the classical background regarding theories of tragedy - philosophical, theological, and literary. The second half investigates tragedy as it appears in various works of Chaucer. A pivotal central chapter demonstrates the previously missing link between Senecan and Chaucerian tragedy. Scholars of drama, especially Renaissance drama, will find this study indispensable, since it presents a challenge to the entrenched theories of the discovery of Senecan tragedy by Renaissance playwrights. It also argues that Boethius is explicitly in dialogue with the late Roman tradition, specifically Seneca, documenting a direct line of influence from Seneca's Latin plays, through the Consolation of Boethius, to de Meun, Boccaccio and Chaucer. It contributes a corrective to a persistent blind spot in medievalist criticism that would deny the integration of classical secular influences into medieval Christian thought." -- From publishers website.
The Tragic Muse
Author: Henry James
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783337639143
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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ISBN: 9783337639143
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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The Tragic Muse
Author: James Henry
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783337638078
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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Publisher:
ISBN: 9783337638078
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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The Tragic Muse
Author: Henry James
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 460
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 460
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The Tragic Muse
Author: Henry James
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 145871067X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 877
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Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 145871067X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 877
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The Tragic Muse ; 2
Author: Henry James
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Languages : en
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Chaucerian Tragedy
Author: Henry Ansgar Kelly
Publisher: DS Brewer
ISBN: 9780859916042
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
A study of Chaucer's definition of tragedy - with special reference to Troilus -and its lasting influence on English dramatists. This book is concerned with the medieval idea of what constituted tragedy; it suggests that it was not a common term, and that those few who used the term did not always intend the same thing by it. Kelly believes that it was Chaucer's work which shaped notions of the genre, and places his achievement in critical and historical context. He begins by contrasting modern with medieval theoretical approaches to genres, then discusses Boccaccio's concept of tragedy before turning to Chaucer himself, exploring the ideas of tragedy prevalent in medieval England and their influence on Chaucer, and showing how Chaucer interpreted the term. Troilus and Criseyde is analysed specifically as a tragedy, with an account of its reception in modern times; for comparison, there is an analysis of how John Lydgate and Robert Henryson, two of Chaucer's imitators, understood and practiced tragedy. Professor HENRY ANSGAR KELLY teaches at UCLA.
Publisher: DS Brewer
ISBN: 9780859916042
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
A study of Chaucer's definition of tragedy - with special reference to Troilus -and its lasting influence on English dramatists. This book is concerned with the medieval idea of what constituted tragedy; it suggests that it was not a common term, and that those few who used the term did not always intend the same thing by it. Kelly believes that it was Chaucer's work which shaped notions of the genre, and places his achievement in critical and historical context. He begins by contrasting modern with medieval theoretical approaches to genres, then discusses Boccaccio's concept of tragedy before turning to Chaucer himself, exploring the ideas of tragedy prevalent in medieval England and their influence on Chaucer, and showing how Chaucer interpreted the term. Troilus and Criseyde is analysed specifically as a tragedy, with an account of its reception in modern times; for comparison, there is an analysis of how John Lydgate and Robert Henryson, two of Chaucer's imitators, understood and practiced tragedy. Professor HENRY ANSGAR KELLY teaches at UCLA.
Chaucer and the Poets
Author: Winthrop Wetherbee
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501707094
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
In this sensitive reading of Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde, Winthrop Wetherbee redefines the nature of Chaucer’s poetic vision. Using as a starting point Chaucer’s profound admiration for the achievement of Dante and the classical poets, Wetherbee sees the Troilus as much more than a courtly treatment of an event in ancient history—it is, he asserts, a major statement about the poetic tradition from which it emerges. Wetherbee demonstrates the evolution of the poet-narrator of the Troilus, who begins as a poet of romance, bound by the characters’ limited worldview, but who in the end becomes a poet capable of realizing the tragic and ultimately the spiritual implications of his story.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501707094
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
In this sensitive reading of Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde, Winthrop Wetherbee redefines the nature of Chaucer’s poetic vision. Using as a starting point Chaucer’s profound admiration for the achievement of Dante and the classical poets, Wetherbee sees the Troilus as much more than a courtly treatment of an event in ancient history—it is, he asserts, a major statement about the poetic tradition from which it emerges. Wetherbee demonstrates the evolution of the poet-narrator of the Troilus, who begins as a poet of romance, bound by the characters’ limited worldview, but who in the end becomes a poet capable of realizing the tragic and ultimately the spiritual implications of his story.