An Introduction to Chaucer and Langland
Author : Terence Leo Connolly
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Page : 120 pages
File Size : 12,45 MB
Release : 1925
Category : English literature
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Author : Terence Leo Connolly
Publisher :
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 12,45 MB
Release : 1925
Category : English literature
ISBN :
Author : Terence L. Connolly
Publisher :
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 23,38 MB
Release : 1978
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Author : Terence Leo Connolly
Publisher :
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 39,23 MB
Release : 1925
Category : English literature
ISBN : 9780841435865
Author : Terence Leo Connolly
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 21,52 MB
Release : 1971
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Author : John M. Bowers
Publisher :
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 27,12 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
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Examines the political, social, and religious factors that contributed to the formation of a literary canon in fourteenth-century England. This book tracks the reputations of Geoffrey Chaucer and William Langland into the fifteenth century, when studies of 14th-century literature became configured in terms of a double, antagonistic dynamic.
Author : Terence Leo Connolly
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Page : pages
File Size : 23,28 MB
Release : 1971
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Author : Mann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 43,84 MB
Release : 1973-06-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521200585
This book is an attempt to discover the origins and significance of the General Prologue-to the Canterbury Tales. The interest of such an inquiry is many-sided. On the one hand, it throws light on the question of whether `life' or 'literature' was Chaucer's model in this work, on the relationship between Chaucer's twenty-odd pilgrims and the structure of medieval society, and on the role of their `estate' in determining the elements of which Chaucer composes their portraits. On the other hand, it makes suggestions about the ways in which Chaucer convinces us of the individuality of his pilgrims, about the nature of his irony, and the kind of moral standards implicit in the Prologue. This book suggests that Chaucer is ironically substituting for the traditional moral view of social structure a vision of a world where morality becomes as specialised to the individual as his work-life.
Author : John Anthony Burrow
Publisher :
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 37,5 MB
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : English poetry
ISBN : 9780140159066
Author : Michael A. Calabrese
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,96 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813062709
William Langland's allegorical poem Piers Plowman is becoming ever more popular in medieval English literature courses. But most current introductions focus primarily on the B text, leaving a gap in available resources for the poem's study. As Piers Plowman continues to gain academic attention in all its three versions (the A, B, and C texts), teachers and students need a new perspective and new approach to the poem as an evolving whole. This first comprehensive introduction to Langland's masterful work covers all three iterations and outlines the various changes that occurred between each. Useful for individuals reading any version of Piers Plowman, this engaging guide offers a much-needed navigational summary, a chronology of historic events relevant to the poem, biographical notes about Langland, and keys to characters and proper pronunciation. Calabrese's definitive and refreshingly lively volume allows readers to navigate this daunting poem and to contextualize it within the literary history of Western culture.
Author : William Langland
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 27,13 MB
Release : 1996-12
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780812215618
"A gifted poet has given us an astute, adroit, vigorous, inviting, eminently readable translation. . . . The challenging gamut of Langland's language . . . has here been rendered with blessed energy and precision. Economou has indeed Done-Best."—Allen Mandelbaum