Author: Lisa J. Kiser
Publisher:
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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Author: V. A. Kolve
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804713498
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 572

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A Stanford University Press classic.

Author: Kathryn L. Lynch
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 9780859916004
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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New readings of Chaucer's dream visions, demonstrating his philosophical interests and learning.

Author: Alan T. Gaylord
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134826427
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 445

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These fifteen essays, four of them commissioned for this volume, along with a discursive introduction which sets each essay into place and comments on its distinctive features, represent a gathering never before attempted: a symposium on Chaucer's craft that concentrates on his poetic forms, his rhythms, his riming, his versification, his prosody. In his seminal essay, Scanning the Prosodists, Alan Gaylord (the editor of this volume) had asked: To show how Chaucer moves, and in moving, moves us: is that not what the study of his prosody should do? Should it not identify a pattern of sounds in motion, a regular and expressive succession which is part of the order of verse and a major component of its effectiveness? In the two decades that followed that essay, a number of distinguished scholars provided a variety of answers for such questions, arising from the authors' work as metrical theorists, or editors of medieval verse, or literary historians, or critics -- but in every case, such work connected to the initiatives and discoveries of the classroom. The best written and most useful of those essays, by recognized authorities in their fields, have been included in this volume. The volume will be of use to the advanced student of Chaucer and medieval poetry, and to the teacher interested in identifying, explaining, and bringing to life the patterns of sound and sense in Chaucer's verse. The extensive master Bibliography for the whole volume comprises a library of references which will have been reviewed and discussed in the essays.

Author: David Lawton
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 0859912175
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 186

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The book begins with a brief prefatory discussion of its relation to structuralist and post-structuralist criticism. The first chapter, `Apocryphal Voices', surveys the basis of modern critical approaches to persona and `irony' in Chaucer's poetry, and suggests that such approaches are better suited to unequivocally written contexts. A systematic hesitation between a wholly written and a wholly spoken context requires critical distinctions between types of persona, and a number of distinctions in the range between persona and voice. `Morality in its Context' examines the Pardoner and his tale and argues against a `dramatic' view of the tale itself, while the third chapter, 'Chaucer's Development of Persona', is a study of possible sources for Chaucer's handling of the narratorial '1', looking at the English `disour', the French `dits amoureux', Italian and Latin sources of influence, and the Roman de la Rose. The last two chapters apply the principles outlined so far to Troilus and The Canterbury Tales, with a particular examination of the literary history of the Squire'stale to show that modern interest in dramatic persona has obscured many other important issues and leads to drastic misreading. This is a challenging and lucid work which questions many of the received attitudes of recentChaucer criticism, and offers a reasoned and approachable alternative view.

Author: Steve Ellis
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0746307772
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 98

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This lucid study of Geoffrey Chaucer addresses both recent theoretical approaches to his work, as well as various popular tropes - 'Father of English Poetry', poet of 'Merrie England' - that have enshrined his status within a nationalist ideology. Feminist criticism and the work of Bakhtin receive particular attention as two of the most prominent concerns in recent Chaucer studies, and new readings that reconsider the political and social context of his writings are also discussed. In his stimulating re-evaluation of a wide range of Chaucer's work Steve Ellis gives full attention to the pre-Tales poetry, alongside the Canterbury Tales themselves.

Author: Lauryn Mayer
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135877548
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 170

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Lauryn Mayer examines chronicle histories that have been largely ignored by scholars, bringing these neglected texts into dialogue.

Author: Robert Young
Publisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9789971692117
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 190

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The book comprises a selection of the papers presented at an international conference on "Meaning as Production: The Role of the 'Unwritten'", held in Singapore in 1995. It takes textual analysis beyond the traditional boundaries of literary studies, into a more culturally dynamic field of social semiotics, rhetorical studies, hermeneutics and theories of interpretation. There are also essays that explore the issues with reference to canonical literary texts or authors.

Author: S. H. Rigby
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526148242
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 218

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Amongst the most written about works of English literature, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales still defy categorization, claims the author of this book. Was Chaucer a poet of profound religious piety or a sceptic who questioned all religious and moral certainties? Do his pilgrims reflect the society of the day, or were they a product of an already well-established literary tradition and convention? Surveying and assessing competing critical approaches to Chaucer's work, this text emphasizes a need to see Chaucer in historical context; the context of the social and political concerns of his own day.

Author: John Allan Mitchell
Publisher: DS Brewer
ISBN: 9781843840190
Category : Ethics, Medieval, in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 174

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