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Author: Robert Myles
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9780859914093
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMyles challenges the convention of the `medieval mind' and perceives new semantic sophistication in Chaucer's language.
Author: Carol L. Shilkett
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Published: 1972
Total Pages: 538
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Seth Lerer
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2006-01-01
Total Pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9780300125979
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of essays on Chaucer's poetry, this guide provides up-to-date information on the history and textual contexts of Chaucer's work, on the ranges of critical interpretation, and on the poet's place in English and European literary history.
Author: Caroline D. Eckhardt
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 1990-01-01
Total Pages: 520
ISBN-13: 9780802025920
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis annotated, international bibliography of twentieth-century criticism on the Prologue is an essential reference guide. It includes books, journal articles, and dissertations, and a descriptive list of twentieth-century editions; it is the most complete inventory of modern criticism on the Prologue.
Author: Jonathan Fruoco
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2020-10-12
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 1501514369
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGeoffrey Chaucer has long been considered by the critics as the father of English poetry. However, this notion not only tends to forget a huge part of the history of Anglo-Saxon literature but also to ignore the specificities of Chaucer’s style. Indeed, Chaucer’s decision to write in Middle English, in a time when the hegemony of Latin and Old French was undisputed (especially at the court of Edward III and Richard II), was consistent with an intellectual movement that was trying to give back to European vernaculars the prestige necessary to a genuine cultural production, which eventually led to the emergence of romance and of the modern novel. As a result, if Chaucer cannot be thought of as the father of English poetry, he is, however, the father of English prose and one of the main artisans of what Mikhail Bakhtin called the polyphonic novel.
Author: P. Knapp
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-04-30
Total Pages: 247
ISBN-13: 0230613845
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChaucerian Aesthetics examines The Canterbury Tale and Troilus and Criseyde from both medieval and post-Kantian vantage points. These sometimes congruent, sometimes divergent perspectives illuminate both the immediate pleasure of encountering beauty and its haunting promise of intelligibility. Although aesthetic reflection has sometimes seemed out of sync with modern approaches to mind and language, Knapp defends its value in general and demonstrates its importance for the analysis of Chaucer s narrative art. Focusing on language games, persons, women, humor, and community, this book ponders what makes art beautiful.
Author: Douglas James Wurtele
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780773521827
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGeoffrey Chaucer is increasingly recognized as a writer whose work is particularly congenial to modern tastes. The essays in Chaucer and Language are at the forefront of present-day interest in Chaucer as a highly self-conscious manipulator of language and theorist of signification in the broadest sense.
Author: Kathryn L. Lynch
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780859916004
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNew readings of Chaucer's dream visions, demonstrating his philosophical interests and learning.
Author: Suzanne Conklin Akbari
Publisher: Oxford Handbooks
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 689
ISBN-13: 0199582653
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis handbook addresses Chaucer's poetry in the context of several disciplines, including late medieval philosophy and science, Mediterranean culture, comparative European literature, vernacular theology and popular devotion.
Author: Henry Ansgar Kelly
Publisher: DS Brewer
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9780859916042
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA 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.
