Author: Richard J. Schoeck
Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 312

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Sixteen essays offer diverse interpretations of the artistry, imagery and themes found within Chaucer's monumental work.

Author: Heather Blurton
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 047213034X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 229

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Reinvigorating the scholarly debate surrounding approaches to one of Chaucer's most notorious tales

Author: Kathy Cawsey
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131700583X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 198

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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.

Author: Caroline Frances Eleanor Spurgeon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 830

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Author: Caroline Frances Eleanor Spurgeon
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 478

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Author: Caroline Frances Eleanor Spurgeon
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 692

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Author: Edward I. Condren
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780813016795
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 295

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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.

Author: Caroline Frances Eleanor Spurgeon
Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 156

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Author: Caroline Frances Eleanor Spurgeon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 472

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Author: Lawton, David
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393603474
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 4

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Both an enhanced digital edition and a handsome print volume, The Norton Chaucer provides the complete poetry and prose, meticulously glossed and annotated specifically for undergraduate readers, with apparatus reflecting current scholarship—all at an unmatched value.