Chaucer and the Social Contest (Routledge Revivals)
Chaucer and the Social Contest (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Peggy Knapp

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-05-13

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13: 113681096X

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First published in 1990, Chaucer and the Social Contest takes a fresh view of The Canterbury Tales, by placing the storytelling contest among the Canterbury pilgrims within the larger social contests in the changing England of the late fourteenth century. The author focuses on three crucial fields of contention: the division of social duties into the three estates, the controversies around Wycliffite thought and practice, and the roles of women. Drawing on recent literary theory, particularly Bakhtin and Foucault, Peggy Knapp offers both a reading of nearly all the tales and an argument about how such readings come about, both for Chaucer’s earliest audiences and for us.

Routledge Revivals: The Social Context of Literacy (1986)
Routledge Revivals: The Social Context of Literacy (1986)

Author: Kenneth Levine

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-12-20

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 1315279274

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First published in 1986, this book looks at the impact of mass literacy on everyday life, discussing the fundamental differences between traditional oral cultures and contemporary industrialised societies where most people rely on complex combinations of oral and literate communication. There is also a detailed examination of the problems of the sub-literate minority with recommendations for future programmes of assistance. This book also provides a historical survey of the spread of literacy in British society from the Roman occupation onwards. In conclusion, the author discusses the impact of information technologies on people with limited basic skills.

Routledge Revivals: Medieval England (1998)
Routledge Revivals: Medieval England (1998)

Author: Paul E. Szarmach

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2017-07-05

Total Pages: 949

ISBN-13: 1351666371

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First published in 1998, this valuable reference work offers concise, expert answers to questions on all aspects of life and culture in Medieval England, including art, architecture, law, literature, kings, women, music, commerce, technology, warfare and religion. This wide-ranging text encompasses English social, cultural, and political life from the Anglo-Saxon invasions in the fifth century to the turn of the sixteenth century, as well as its ties to the Celtic world of Wales, Scotland and Ireland, the French and Anglo-Norman world of the Continent and the Viking and Scandinavian world of the North Sea. A range of topics are discussed from Sedulius to Skelton, from Wulfstan of York to Reginald Pecock, from Pictish art to Gothic sculpture and from the Vikings to the Black Death. A subject and name index makes it easy to locate information and bibliographies direct users to essential primary and secondary sources as well as key scholarship. With more than 700 entries by over 300 international scholars, this work provides a detailed portrait of the English Middle Ages and will be of great value to students and scholars studying Medieval history in England and Europe, as well as non-specialist readers.

The Fellowship of the Beatific Vision
The Fellowship of the Beatific Vision

Author: Norm Klassen

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2016-11-09

Total Pages: 159

ISBN-13: 1498283691

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In The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer asks a basic human question: How do we overcome tyranny? His answer goes to the heart of a revolutionary way of thinking about the very end of human existence and the nature of created being. His answer, declared performatively over the course of a symbolic pilgrimage, urges the view that humanity has an intrinsic need of grace in order to be itself. In portraying this outlook, Chaucer contributes to what has been called the "palaeo-Christian" understanding of creaturely freedom. Paradoxically, genuine freedom grows out of the dependency of all things upon God. In imaginatively inhabiting this view of reality, Chaucer aligns himself with that other great poet-theologian of the Middle Ages, Dante. Both are true Christian humanists. They recognize in art a fragile opportunity: not to reduce reality to a set of dogmatic propositions but to participate in an ever-deepening mystery. Chaucer effectively calls all would-be members of the pilgrim fellowship that is the church to behave as artists, interpretively responding to God in the finitude of their existence together.

The Rap Canterbury Tales
The Rap Canterbury Tales

Author: Baba Brinkman

Publisher:

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13:

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"Rapper MC Baba Brinkman brings his performance piece "The Rap Canterbury Tales" to the printed page, resurrecting Chaucer's brilliant stories that will once and again delight and edify both live audiences and readers - a rebirth of what poetry should be in its essence, and once was. Since Chaucer has become an unassailable icon of print culture, and hip-hop is an unassailable icon of contemporary digital cool, Brinkman saw this radical new fusion of content and style as the perfect medium to deliver Chaucer timeless message to a younger generation. The raps are presented here along with Chaucer's original Middle English, Brinkman's explanatory introduction, and his brother and stage manager Erik's illustrations."--BOOK JACKET.

Dramatic Monologue (Routledge Revivals)
Dramatic Monologue (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Alan Sinfield

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-06-23

Total Pages: 98

ISBN-13: 1135040567

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First published in 1977, this book looks at the versatile literary form of dramatic monologue. Although it is often associated with Browning and other poets writing between 1830 and 1930, the concept has been employed by diverse poets of multiple periods such as Ovid, Chaucer, Donne, Blake, Wordsworth, Philip Larkin and Ted Hughes. In this study, Alan Sinfield demonstrates and analyses the range and adaptability of the form through detailed examples. He shows that the technique maintains a shifting and uncertain balance between the voices of the poet and of his created speaker; when extended, as in Maud, Amours de Voyage, The Ring and the Book, and The Wasteland, the use of dramatic monologue raises questions of personality and perception. In the second part of the text, the author discusses the origins of Victorian and Modernist dramatic monologue in the dramatic complaint and the Ovidian verse epistle of earlier periods, offering a new interpretation of the value of dramatic monologue to Browning and Tennyson. Through his writing, Alan Sinfield successfully highlights the eternal vibrance of the form.

The Routledge History of Literature in English
The Routledge History of Literature in English

Author: Ronald Carter

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 598

ISBN-13: 9780415243179

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This is a guide to the main developments in the history of British and Irish literature, charting some of the main features of literary language development and highlighting key language topics.

Encomia
Encomia

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1980

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13:

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Includes reports on the business of the Society and its Congresses, it membership directory, book reviews, and an annual bibliography of courtly literature 1985-2000/2001.