Chaucer's Formal Histories
Author : Kara Gaston
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Page : 164 pages
File Size : 20,69 MB
Release : 2013
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Author : Kara Gaston
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Page : 164 pages
File Size : 20,69 MB
Release : 2013
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Author : Anne Middleton
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 45,15 MB
Release : 2023-04-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1000947580
Anne Middleton's essays have been among the most vigorous, learned, and influential in the field of medieval English literature. Their 'crux-busting' energies have illuminated local obscurities with generous learning lightly wielded. Their historically- and theoretically-informed meditations on the nature of poetic discourse traced how the generation of Chaucer and Langland devised a category of the literary that could embody a ethos of engaged, worldly consensus and make that consensus available to imaginative and rational consideration. And their reflections on the enterprise of literary study found a rational way, free of cant, to understand the work of the literary scholar. This volume reprints eight essays: ’The Idea of Public Poetry in the Reign of Richard II,’ ’Chaucer's 'New Men' and the Good of Literature in the Canterbury Tales,’ ’The Physician's Tale and Love's Martyrs: 'Ensamples Mo than Ten' as a Method in the Canterbury Tales,’ ’The Clerk and His Tale: Some Literary Contexts,’ ’Narration and the Invention of Experience: Episodic Form in Piers Plowman,’ ’Making a Good End: John But as a Reader of Piers Plowman,’ ’William Langland's 'Kynde Name': Authorial Signature and Social Identity in Late Fourteenth-Century England,’ ’Life in the Margins, or, What's an Annotator to Do?’ It includes one essay previously unpublished, ’Playing the Plowman: Legends of Fourteenth-Century Authorship.’
Author : Lee Patterson
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 35,62 MB
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299128340
Chaucer's interest in individuality was strikingly modern. He was aware of the pressures on individuality exerted by the past and by society - by history. Chaucer investigated not just the idea of history but the historical world intimately related to his own political and literary career. This book has shaped the way that Chaucer is read.
Author : Suzanne Conklin Akbari
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 23,27 MB
Release : 2020-05-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0191649376
As the 'father' of the English literary canon, one of a very few writers to appear in every 'great books' syllabus, Chaucer is seen as an author whose works are fundamentally timeless: an author who, like Shakespeare, exemplifies the almost magical power of poetry to appeal to each generation of readers. Every age remakes its own Chaucer, developing new understandings of how his poetry intersects with contemporary ways of seeing the world, and the place of the subject who lives in it. This Handbook comprises a series of essays by established scholars and emerging voices that address Chaucer's poetry in the context of several disciplines, including late medieval philosophy and science, Mediterranean Studies, comparative literature, vernacular theology, and popular devotion. The volume paints the field in broad strokes and sections include Biography and Circumstances of Daily Life; Chaucer in the European Frame; Philosophy and Science in the Universities; Christian Doctrine and Religious Heterodoxy; and the Chaucerian Afterlife. Taken as a whole, The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer offers a snapshot of the current state of the field, and a bold suggestion of the trajectories along which Chaucer studies are likely to develop in the future.
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Page : 874 pages
File Size : 21,51 MB
Release : 1857
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Author : Robert Huntington Fletcher
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 44,28 MB
Release : 1919
Category : Literary Criticism
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Jonathan Swift, another unique figure of very mixed traits, is like Defoe in that he connects the reign of William III with that of his successors and that, in accordance with the spirit of his age, he wrote for the most part not for literary but for practical purposes; in many other respects the two are widely different. Swift is one of the best representatives in English literature of sheer intellectual power, but his character, his aims, his environment, and the circumstances of his life denied to him also literary achievement of the greatest permanent significance.
Author : George Saintsbury
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Page : 964 pages
File Size : 17,26 MB
Release : 1898
Category : Literary Criticism
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Author : George Saintsbury
Publisher : Atlantic Publishers & Dist
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 20,86 MB
Release : 2005
Category : English literature
ISBN : 9788126904457
One Of The Pioneering Works In Literary Historiography, The Book A Short History Of English Literature Combines In A Remarkable Manner The Historical And The Critical Principles That Ought To Govern Any Literary History. On Saintbury S Own Testimony The Book Is Not Meant To Be Bird S Eye Views . It Is, In Fact, A Fine Critical Survey Of The Entire History Of English Literature From Its Beginning To The End Of The Victorian Period.Saintsbury S Copious Scholarship, Fine Clarity Of Thought And Literary Sensibility Have Made The Approach To Each Text Both Microscopic And Telescopic So That While A Text Is Kept Under A Sharp Critical Focus, All The Relevant Contextual Aspects Are Touched Upon To Further Illuminate It. Despite Saintsbury S Englishness, The Book, As A Short But Succinct Account Of The History Of Literature, Is Of Perennial Value. While Any Student Of English Literature Will Find The Book Immensely Useful, Anybody Interested In English Literature Will Find It Eminently Readable And Interesting.
Author : Sir Adolphus William Ward
Publisher : Books on Demand
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 17,46 MB
Release : 1908
Category : Literary Criticism
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Author : A. W. Ward
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 25,66 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521045162