The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer
Author: Piero Boitani
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9780521894678
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Author: Piero Boitani
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9780521894678
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Author: Frank Grady
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-09-10
Total Pages: 295
ISBN-13: 1107181003
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA lively and accessible introduction to the variety, depth, and wonder of Chaucer's best-known poem.
Author: Larry Scanlon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009-06-18
Total Pages: 315
ISBN-13: 0521841674
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA wide-ranging survey of the most important medieval authors and genres, designed for students of English.
Author: Peter Brown
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2019-03-19
Total Pages: 569
ISBN-13: 1118902246
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe extensively revised and expanded version of the acclaimed Companion to Chaucer An essential text for both established scholars and those seeking to expand their knowledge of Chaucer studies, A New Companion to Chaucer is an authoritative and up-to-date survey of Chaucer scholarship. Rigorous yet accessible, this book helps readers to identify current debates, recognize historical and literary context, and to understand how particular concepts and theories affect the interpretation of Chaucer’s texts. Chaucer specialists from around the globe offer contributions that range from updates of long-standing scholarship on biography, language, women, and social structures, to original research in new areas such as ideology, the afterlife, patronage, and sexuality. In presenting conflicting perspectives and ideological differences, this stimulating volume encourages readers to explore additional paths of inquiry and engage in lively and informed debate. Each chapter of the Companion, organized by issues and themes, balances textual analysis and cultural context by grounding the reader in existing scholarship. Key issues from specific passages are discussed with an annotated bibliography provided for reference and further reading. Compiled with all students of Chaucer in mind, this important volume: Presents contributions from both established and emerging specialists Explores the circumstances in which Chaucer wrote, such as the political and religious issues of his time Includes numerous close readings of selected poems Provides points of entry to a wide range of approaches to Chaucer’s works Incorporates original research, fresh perspectives, and updated additions to Chaucer scholarship A New Companion to Chaucer is a valuable and enduring resource for scholars, teachers, and students of medieval literature and medieval studies, as well as the general reader interested in interpretations and historical contexts of Chaucer’s writings.
Author: Corinne Saunders
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2008-04-15
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 1405154624
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis concise companion provides a succinct introduction to Chaucer’s major works, the contexts in which he wrote, and to medieval thought more generally. Opens with a general introductory section discussing London life and politics, books and authority, manuscripts and readers. Subsequent sections focus on Chaucer’s major works – the dream visions, Troilus and Criseyde and The Canterbury Tales. Essays highlight the key religious, political and intellectual contexts for each major work. Also covers important general topics, including: medieval literary genres; dream theory; the Church; gender and sexuality; and reading Chaucer aloud. Designed so that each contextual essay can be read alongside one of Chaucer’s major works.
Author: Paul Strohm
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2015-10-27
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 0143127837
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A lively microbiography of Geoffrey Chaucer, the "father of English literature", focusing on the surprising and fascinating story of the tumultuous year that led to the creation of the Canterbury Tales"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Elizabeth Scala
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780393624441
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Author: Mark Miller
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005-01-13
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1139442856
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMark Miller's innovative study argues that Chaucer's Canterbury Tales represent an extended mediation on agency, autonomy and practical reason. This philosophical aspect of Chaucer's interests can help us understand what is both sophisticated and disturbing about his explorations of love, sex and gender. Partly through fresh readings of the Consolation of Philosophy and the Romance of the Rose, Miller charts Chaucer's position in relation to the association in the Christian West between problems of autonomy and problems of sexuality and reconstructs how medieval philosophers and literary writers approached psychological phenomena often thought of as distinctively modern. The literary experiments of the Canterbury Tales represent a distinctive philosophical achievement that remains vital to our own attempts to understand agency, desire and their histories.
Author: Piero Boitani
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004-01-12
Total Pages: 510
ISBN-13: 1107494648
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Cambridge Companion to Chaucer is an extensively revised version of the first edition, which has become a classic in the field. This new volume responds to the success of the first edition and to recent debates in Chaucer Studies. Important material has been updated, and new contributions have been commissioned to take into account recent trends in literary theory as well as in studies of Chaucer's works. New chapters cover the literary inheritance traceable in his works to French and Italian sources, his style, as well as new approaches to his work. Other topics covered include the social and literary scene in England in Chaucer's time, and comedy, pathos and romance in the Canterbury Tales. The volume now offers a useful chronology, and the bibliography has been entirely updated to provide an indispensable guide for today's student of Chaucer.
Author: Margreta De Grazia
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010-03-25
Total Pages: 381
ISBN-13: 0521886325
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTwenty-one essays provide lively and authoritative approaches to the literary, historical, cultural and performative aspects of Shakespeare works.