Author: Jörg O. Fichte
Publisher: Gunter Narr Verlag
ISBN: 9783878084419
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 144

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Author: Alfred David
Publisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 298

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"When Lady Philosophy, coming to rescue the ailing Boethius, castigates the "poetical muses" around his bed as "comune strompettis," she poses a problem for any medieval poet who seeks to reconcile art with morality. According to medieval theory, it was the poet's duty to instruct and uplift through moral wisdom, but Chaucer's gifts led him to an artistic vision independent of moral sanctions, one with the energy and vitality of life itself. Although he set out to put his art in the service of moral truth, he was aware of an equivocal worth in the truth of his poems that ultimately led him to retract the best of them in the moving conclusion to the Canterbury Tales. This book presents a comprehensive interpretation of Chaucer's work by tracing his changing conceptions of his craft. Its theme is Chaucer's constant struggle to reconcile the moral "auctorite" of his age with the "experience" of his vision as an artist. Although the book takes a stand on current critical disputes about Chaucer, it also serves the students and general reader and an introduction and companion to a first reading of the poet. The main emphasis of the book falls on the Canterbury Tales, but the tales are set within an overall picture of Chaucer's development, and there are key chapters on Troilus and the Legend of Good Women. The author concentrates on the texts themselves in extremely successful effort to provide original interpretations of individual tales within the frame of a larger story: Chaucer's evolution as a poet both for his age and for all of time." -Publisher.

Author: Eric Weiskott
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107169658
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 255

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A revisionary account of the 900-year-long history of a major poetic tradition, explored through metrics and literary history.

Author: Susan Schibanoff
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 0802090354
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 376

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Geoffrey Chaucer was arguably fourteenth-century England's greatest poet. In the nineteenth century, readers of Chaucer's early dream poems - the Book of the Duchess, House of Fame, and Parliament of Fowles - began to detect a tripartite model of his artistic development from a French to an Italian, and finally to an English phase. They fleshed out this model with the liberation narrative, the inspiring story of how Chaucer escaped the emasculating French house of bondage to become the generative father of English poetry. Although this division has now largely been dismissed, both the tripartite model and the accompanying liberation narrative persist in Chaucer criticism. In Chaucer's Queer Poetics, Susan Schibanoff interrogates why the tripartite model remains so tenacious even when literary history does not support it. Revealing deeply rooted Francophobic, homophobic, and nationalistic biases, Schibanoff examines the development paradigm and demonstrates that 'liberated Chaucer' depends on antiquated readings of key source texts for the dream trilogy. This study challenges the long held view the Chaucer fled the prison of effete French court verse to become the 'natural' English father poet and charts a new model of Chaucerian poetic development that discovers the emergence of a queer aesthetic in his work.

Author: Robert M. Jordan
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520369866
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.

Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher: Xist Publishing
ISBN: 1681959089
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 963

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The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer from Coterie Classics All Coterie Classics have been formatted for ereaders and devices and include a bonus link to the free audio book. “Then you compared a woman's love to Hell, To barren land where water will not dwell, And you compared it to a quenchless fire, The more it burns the more is its desire To burn up everything that burnt can be. You say that just as worms destroy a tree A wife destroys her husband and contrives, As husbands know, the ruin of their lives. ” ― Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales The Canterbury Tales are collection of stories by Chaucer, each attributed to a fictional medieval pilgrim.

Author: Helen Fulton
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1786836793
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 290

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Chaucerian scholarship has long been intrigued by the nature and consequences of Chaucer’s exposure to Italian culture during his professional visits to Italy in the 1370s. In this volume, leading scholars take a new and more holistic view of Chaucer’s engagement with Italian cultural practice, moving beyond the traditional ‘sources and analogues’ approach to reveal the varied strands of Italian literature, art, politics and intellectual life that permeate Chaucer’s work. Each chapter examines from different angles links between Chaucerian texts and Italian intellectual models, including poetics, chorography, visual art, classicism, diplomacy and prophecy. Echoes of Petrarch, Dante and Boccaccio reverberate throughout the book, across a rich and diverse landscape of Italian cultural legacies. Together, the chapters cover a wide range of theory and reference, while sharing a united understanding of the rich impact of Italian culture on Chaucer’s narrative art.

Author: Lynn Arner
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271062037
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 210

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Chaucer, Gower, and the Vernacular Rising examines the transmission of Greco-Roman and European literature into English during the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries, while literacy was burgeoning among men and women from the nonruling classes. This dissemination offered a radically democratizing potential for accessing, interpreting, and deploying learned texts. Focusing primarily on an overlooked sector of Chaucer’s and Gower’s early readership, namely, the upper strata of nonruling urban classes, Lynn Arner argues that Chaucer’s and Gower’s writings engaged in elaborate processes of constructing cultural expertise. These writings helped define gradations of cultural authority, determining who could contribute to the production of legitimate knowledge and granting certain socioeconomic groups political leverage in the wake of the English Rising of 1381. Chaucer, Gower, and the Vernacular Rising simultaneously examines Chaucer’s and Gower’s negotiations—often articulated at the site of gender—over poetics and over the roles that vernacular poetry should play in the late medieval English social formation. This study investigates how Chaucer’s and Gower’s texts positioned poetry to become a powerful participant in processes of social control.

Author: George T. Wright
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520076427
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 367

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This is a wide-ranging, poetic analysis of the great English poetic line, iambic pentameter, as used by Chaucer, Sidney, Milton, and particularly by Shakespeare. George T. Wright offers a detailed survey of Shakespeare's brilliantly varied metrical keyboard and shows how it augments the expressiveness of his characters' stage language.

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.