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Author : Kathryn L. Lynch
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2013-10-15
ISBN : 1135309590
Pages : 300 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (39 Download)
Download Free Chaucer's Cultural Geography PDF by Kathryn L. Lynch Full Book and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Kathryn L. Lynch
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2013-10-15
ISBN : 1135309523
Pages : 300 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (39 Download)
Download Free Chaucer's Cultural Geography PDF by Kathryn L. Lynch Full Book and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Mark Allen
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Release Date : 2015-11-01
ISBN : 1784996459
Pages : 832 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (996 Download)
Download Free Annotated Chaucer bibliography PDF by Mark Allen Full Book and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extremely thorough, expertly compiled and crisply annotated comprehensive bibliography of Chaucer scholarship between 1997 and 2010
Author : Marion Turner
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2020-09-22
ISBN : 0691210152
Pages : 626 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (21 Download)
Download Free Chaucer PDF by Marion Turner Full Book and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "More than any other canonical English writer, Geoffrey Chaucer lived and worked at the centre of political life--yet his poems are anything but conventional. Edgy, complicated, and often dark, they reflect a conflicted world, and their astonishing diversity and innovative language earned Chaucer renown as the father of English literature. Marion Turner, however, reveals him as a great European writer and thinker. To understand his accomplishment, she reconstructs in unprecedented detail the cosmopolitan world of Chaucer's adventurous life, focusing on the places and spaces that fired his imagination. Uncovering important new information about Chaucer's travels, private life, and the early circulation of his writings, this innovative biography documents a series of vivid episodes, moving from the commercial wharves of London to the frescoed chapels of Florence and the kingdom of Navarre, where Christians, Muslims, and Jews lived side by side. The narrative recounts Chaucer's experiences as a prisoner of war in France, as a father visiting his daughter's nunnery, as a member of a chaotic Parliament, and as a diplomat in Milan, where he encountered the writings of Dante and Boccaccio. At the same time, the book offers a comprehensive exploration of Chaucer's writings, taking the reader to the Troy of Troilus and Criseyde, the gardens of the dream visions, and the peripheries and thresholds of The Canterbury Tales. By exploring the places Chaucer visited, the buildings he inhabited, the books he read, and the art and objects he saw, this landmark biography tells the extraordinary story of how a wine merchant's son became the poet of The Canterbury Tales." -- Publisher's description.
Author : Peter Brown
Publisher : Peter Lang
Release Date : 2007
ISBN : 9783039113408
Pages : 380 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (42 Download)
Download Free Chaucer and the Making of Optical Space PDF by Peter Brown Full Book and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2007 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author links Chaucer's writings with the medieval optical tradition in its various forms (scholastic texts, encyclopedias, exempla, vernacular poetry) both in general cultural terms and through the discussion of specific examples. He shows how the science of optics, or perspectiva, provides an account of spatial perception, including visual error, and demonstrates how these aspects of optical theory impact on Chaucer's poetry. He provides detailed and sustained analysis of the spatial content of narratives across the range of Chaucer's works, relating them to optical ideas and making use of Lefebvre's theory of the production of space. The texts discussed include the Book of the Duchess, House of Fame, Knight's Tale, Miller's Tale, Reeve's Tale, Merchant's Tale, Squire's Tale and Troilus and Criseyde.
Author : Frank Grady
Publisher : Modern Language Association
Release Date : 2014-05-01
ISBN : 1603291954
Pages : 251 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (291 Download)
Download Free Approaches to Teaching Chaucer's Canterbury Tales PDF by Frank Grady Full Book and published by Modern Language Association. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales was the subject of the first volume in the Approaches to Teaching series, published in 1980. But in the past thirty years, Chaucer scholarship has evolved dramatically, teaching styles have changed, and new technologies have created extraordinary opportunities for studying Chaucer. This second edition of Approaches to Teaching Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales reflects the wide variety of contexts in which students encounter the poem and the diversity of perspectives and methods instructors bring to it. Perennial topics such as class, medieval marriage, genre, and tale order rub shoulders with considerations of violence, postcoloniality, masculinities, race, and food in the tales. The first section, “Materials,†reviews available editions, scholarship, and audiovisual and electronic resources for studying The Canterbury Tales. In the second section, “Approaches,†thirty-six essays discuss strategies for teaching Chaucer’s language, for introducing theory in the classroom, for focusing on individual tales, and for using digital resources in the classroom. The multiplicity of approaches reflects the richness of Chaucer’s work and the continuing excitement of each new generation’s encounter with it.
Author : S. Morrison
Publisher : Springer
Release Date : 2008-09-15
ISBN : 0230615023
Pages : 271 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (615 Download)
Download Free Excrement in the Late Middle Ages PDF by S. Morrison Full Book and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary book intergrates the historical practices regarding material excrement and its symbolic representation, concluding that excrement is a moral and ethical category deserving scrutiny.
Author : Ian Johnson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2019-07-11
ISBN : 1107035643
Pages : 499 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (35 Download)
Download Free Geoffrey Chaucer in Context PDF by Ian Johnson Full Book and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-11 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a rich and varied reference resource, illuminating the different contexts for Chaucer and his work.
Author : Rosalyn Rossignol
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Release Date : 2006
ISBN : 1438108400
Pages : 657 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (18 Download)
Download Free Critical Companion to Chaucer PDF by Rosalyn Rossignol Full Book and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the life and writings of Geoffrey Chaucer, including detailed synopses of his works, explanations of literary terms, character portraits, social and historical influences, and more.
Author : Peter Brown
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2019-06-10
ISBN : 1118902254
Pages : 565 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (92 Download)
Download Free A New Companion to Chaucer PDF by Peter Brown Full Book and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-06-10 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Lucy M. Allen-Goss
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2020
ISBN : 1843845709
Pages : 237 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (845 Download)
Download Free Female Desire in Chaucer's Legend of Good Women and Middle English Romance PDF by Lucy M. Allen-Goss Full Book and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2020 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of female same-sex desire in Chaucer and medieval romance.
Author : M. Davidson
Publisher : Springer
Release Date : 2009-12-21
ISBN : 0230102042
Pages : 211 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (12 Download)
Download Free Medievalism, Multilingualism, and Chaucer PDF by M. Davidson Full Book and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-12-21 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In new readings of medieval language attitudes and identities, this book concludes that multilingualism informed masculinist discourses, which were aligned against the vernacular sentiment traditionally attributed to Langland and Chaucer.
Author : Frederick M. Biggs
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2017
ISBN : 1843844753
Pages : 294 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (844 Download)
Download Free Chaucer's Decameron and the Origin of the Canterbury Tales PDF by Frederick M. Biggs Full Book and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2017 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major and original contribution to the debate as to Chaucer's use and knowledge of Boccaccio, finding a new source for the Shipman's Tale.
Author : Susan Schibanoff
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2006-01-01
ISBN : 0802090354
Pages : 376 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (9 Download)
Download Free Chaucer's Queer Poetics PDF by Susan Schibanoff Full Book and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geoffrey Chaucer was arguably fourteenth-century England's greatest poet. In the nineteenth century, readers of Chaucer's early dream poems - the Book of the Duchess, House of Fame, and Parliament of Fowles - began to detect a tripartite model of his artistic development from a French to an Italian, and finally to an English phase. They fleshed out this model with the liberation narrative, the inspiring story of how Chaucer escaped the emasculating French house of bondage to become the generative father of English poetry. Although this division has now largely been dismissed, both the tripartite model and the accompanying liberation narrative persist in Chaucer criticism. In Chaucer's Queer Poetics, Susan Schibanoff interrogates why the tripartite model remains so tenacious even when literary history does not support it. Revealing deeply rooted Francophobic, homophobic, and nationalistic biases, Schibanoff examines the development paradigm and demonstrates that 'liberated Chaucer' depends on antiquated readings of key source texts for the dream trilogy. This study challenges the long held view the Chaucer fled the prison of effete French court verse to become the 'natural' English father poet and charts a new model of Chaucerian poetic development that discovers the emergence of a queer aesthetic in his work.
Author : Susan Nakley
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2017-08-24
ISBN : 0472130447
Pages : 283 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (13 Download)
Download Free Living in the Future PDF by Susan Nakley Full Book and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2017-08-24 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nationalism, like medieval romance literature, recasts history as a mythologized and seamless image of reality. Living in the Future analyzes how the anachronistic nationalist fantasies in Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales create a false sense of England’s historical continuity that in turn legitimized contemporary political ambitions. This book spells out the legacy of the Tales that still resonates throughout English literature, exploring the idea of England in the medieval literary imagination as well as critiquing more recent centuries’ conceptions of Chaucer’s nationalism. Chaucer uses two extant national ideals, sovereignty and domesticity, to introduce the concept of an English nation into the contemporary popular imagination and reinvent an idealized England as a hallowed homeland. For nationalist thinkers, sovereignty governs communities with linguistic, historical, cultural, and religious affinities. Chaucerian sovereignty appears primarily in romantic and household contexts that function as microcosms of the nation, reflecting a pseudo-familial love between sovereign and subjects and relying on a sense of shared ownership and judgment. This notion also has deep affinities with popular and political theories flourishing throughout Europe. Chaucer’s internationalism, matched with his artistic use of the vernacular and skillful distortions of both time and space, frames a discrete sovereign English nation within its diverse interconnected world. As it opens up significant new points of resonance between postcolonial theories and medieval ideas of nationhood, Living in the Future marks an important contribution to medieval literary studies. It will be essential for scholars of Middle English literature, literary history, literary political and postcolonial theory, and literary transnationalism.
Author : Alexander N. Gabrovsky
Publisher : Springer
Release Date : 2016-04-08
ISBN : 1137523913
Pages : 291 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (523 Download)
Download Free Chaucer the Alchemist PDF by Alexander N. Gabrovsky Full Book and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The secrets of nature's alchemy captivated both the scientific and literary imagination of the Middle Ages. This book explores Chaucer's fascination with earth's mutability. Gabrovsky reveals that his poetry represents a major contribution to a medieval worldview centered on the philosophy of physics, astronomy, alchemy, and logic.
Author : Francis Tobienne, Jr.
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2016-06-20
ISBN : 1611496047
Pages : 184 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (496 Download)
Download Free Mandeville's Travails PDF by Francis Tobienne, Jr. Full Book and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-06-20 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mandeville’s Travails challenges the less than serious stereotyping of travel as both genre and theoretical framework. Instead, and by examining the position of travel, a deeper sense of the human species can be appreciated beyond the displaced borders of language, ritual, and culture.
