Chaucer Among the Gods
Author : John P. MacCall
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Page : pages
File Size : 46,44 MB
Release : 1979
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Author : John P. MacCall
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Page : pages
File Size : 46,44 MB
Release : 1979
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Author : John P. McCall
Publisher : Penn State University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 45,70 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Literary Criticism
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A description of Chaucer's adaptation of classical materials to various uses--comedy, tragedy, and allegory; theme, action, and character--this book is also an analysis of Chaucer's poetics. Chaucer's creative use of the classical past is shown as a central part of his virtuosity. The book begins with a general discussion of the medieval traditions of classical myth, showing how Chaucer made himself the first humanist of English literature--opening to England both the ancient world of Virgil, Ovid, and Lucan and also the contemporary perceptions of that world by such continental masters as Dante, Graunson, Boccaccio, and Froissart. Succeeding chapters move through the categories of Chaucer's aesthetic uses of classical materials in specific poems: brief allusions, adaptations of myth to moral allegory, references to places, and lampoons of classical divinities. Professor McCall concludes by contrasting Chaucer's "rhetorics of fragmentation and discontinuity" with those of modern writers. Today such rhetorics have a despairing or apocalyptic tone. For Chaucer they conveyed "patient acceptance of the world and one's own self."
Author : Ian Johnson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 26,90 MB
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107035643
Provides a rich and varied reference resource, illuminating the different contexts for Chaucer and his work.
Author : John Bugbee
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,95 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Criticism, interpretation, etc
ISBN : 9780268104450
God's Patients explores some of Chaucer's most challenging poems, providing a powerful new way of thinking about the transition between the Middle Ages and modernity.
Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 37,89 MB
Release : 2005-09-29
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0141966793
The most complete of all remaining surviving fragments sections of The Canterbury Tales, the First Fragment contains some of Chaucer's most widely enjoyed work. In The General Prologue, Chaucer introduces his pilgrims through a set of speaking portraits, drawn with a clarity that makes no attempt to conceal their peculiarities. The four tales that follow - those of the Knight, Miller, Reeve and Cook - reveal a wide variety of human preoccupations: whether chivalrous, romantic or simply sexual. Brilliantly bawdy and subtly complex, each of these tales is alive with Chaucer's skills as a poet, storyteller and creator of comedy.
Author : Megan E. Murton
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 11,35 MB
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 1843845598
In a culture as steeped in communal, scripted acts of prayer as Chaucer's England, a written prayer asks not only to be read, but to be inhabited: its "I" marks a space that readers are invited to occupy. This book examines the implications of accepting that invitation when reading Chaucer's poetry. Both in his often-overlooked pious writings and in his ambitious, innovative pagan narratives, the "I" of prayer provides readers with a subject-position thatcan be at once devotional and literary - a stance before a deity and a stance in relation to a poem. Chaucer uses this uniquely open, participatory "I" to implicate readers in his poetry and to guide their work of reading. In examining Christian and pagan prayers alongside each other, Chaucer's Prayers cuts across an assumed division between the "religious" and "secular" writings within Chaucer's corpus. Rather, it emphasizes continuities andapproaches prayer as part of Chaucer's broader experimentation with literary voice. It also places Chaucer in his devotional context and foregrounds how pious practices intersect with and shape his poetic practices. These insightschallenge a received view of Chaucer as an essentially secular poet and shed new light on his poetry's relationship to religion.
Author : Carolynn Van Dyke
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 35,13 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780838640838
Chaucer's Agents draws on medieval and modern theories of agency to provide fresh readings of the major Chaucerian texts. Collectively, those readings aim to illuminate Chaucer's responses to two greta problems of agency: the degree to which human beings and forces qualify as agents, and the equal reference of "agent" to initiators and instruments. Each chapter surveys medieval conceptions of the agency in question-- allegorical Realities, intelligent animals, pagan gods, women, and the author--and then follows that kind of agent through representative Chaucerian texts. Readers have long recognized Chaucer's interest in questions of causation; Van Dyke shows that his answers to those questions shape, even constitute, his narratives. --Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
Author : Patience Agbabi
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 41,50 MB
Release : 2014-04-03
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1782111565
SHORTLISTED FOR THE TED HUGHES PRIZE 2015 Tabard Inn to Canterb'ry Cathedral, Poet pilgrims competing for free picks, Chaucer Tales, track by track, it's the remix From below-the-belt base to the topnotch; I won't stop all the clocks with a stopwatch when the tales overrun, run offensive, or run clean out of steam, they're authentic and we're keeping it real, reminisce this: Chaucer Tales were an unfinished business. In Telling Tales award-winning poet Patience Agbabi presents an inspired 21st-Century remix of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales retelling all of the stories, from the Miller's Tale to the Wife of Bath's in her own critically acclaimed poetic style. Celebrating Chaucer's Middle-English masterwork for its performance element as well as its poetry and pilgrims, Agbabi's newest collection is utterly unique. Boisterous, funky, foul-mouthed, sublimely lyrical and bursting at the seams, Telling Tales takes one of Britain's most significant works of literature and gives it thrilling new life.
Author : Vincent August Lopresti
Publisher :
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 19,8 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Gods in literature
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Author : Barbara Apstein
Publisher :
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 39,31 MB
Release : 1971
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