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Author : Piero Boitani
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 29,91 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521894678
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Author : Frank Grady
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 44,26 MB
Release : 2020-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1107181003
A lively and accessible introduction to the variety, depth, and wonder of Chaucer's best-known poem.
Author : Larry Scanlon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 31,47 MB
Release : 2009-06-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0521841674
A wide-ranging survey of the most important medieval authors and genres, designed for students of English.
Author : Colin James Lawson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,57 MB
Release : 1995-12-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521476683
Written for students, performers, and music lovers.
Author : Peter Brown
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 20,21 MB
Release : 2019-03-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1118902246
The 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 : J. Michelle Coghlan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 46,81 MB
Release : 2020-03-19
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 1108427367
This Companion rethinks food in literature from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales to contemporary food blogs, and recovers cookbooks as literary texts.
Author : Corinne Saunders
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,36 MB
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1405154624
This 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 : Elizabeth Scala
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,96 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780393624441
The essential student companion for reading and understanding
Author : Mark Miller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 25,57 MB
Release : 2005-01-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139442856
Mark 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 : Ian Johnson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 47,12 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.