Author: Charles MuscatinePublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN:
Category : Comparative literature
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Chaucer and the French Tradition
Author: Charles MuscatinePublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN:
Category : Comparative literature
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer
Author: Piero BoitaniPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521894678
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Table of contents
Chaucer's French Contemporaries
Author: R. Barton PalmerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
This collection grows out of the Spring 1987 issue of Studies in the Literary Imagination. Along with the original 6 essays, now revised for book publication, this volume adds 8 new examinations of the connections between the authors of medieval France and England. The volume editor is a translator of Machaut and intimately involved in scholarly investigations that provide connections between culture and texts. Framed by diverse studies that investigate the genius of the patron and the shaping role of the editor, those articles serve as models both of how to study particular authors or texts, and as paradigms for other researchers to follow.
The French Tradition and the Literature of Medieval England
Author: William CalinPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442655259
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
he French presence in English literary history in the centuries following the Conquest has to some extent been glossed over or treated as an interlude. During this period, roughly 1100-1420, French, like Latin, was the language of the educated; in the courts of England, and for nobles, clerics, and the rising commercial elements, communication was multilingual. In his ground-breaking study, William Calin explores indepth this era of medieval English literature and culture in relation to its distinctly French influences and contemporaries. He examines the Anglo-Norman contribution to medieval literature, concentrating on romance and hagiography; the great continental French texts, such as Prose Lancelot and the Romance of the Rose, which had a dominant role in shaping literature in English; and the English response to the French cultural world - the two 'modes' in English where the French presence was most significant: court poetry (Chaucer, Gower, Hoccleve) and Middle English romance. This book is grounded in French sources both well-known and relatively obscure. Translations of the Old French makeThe French Tradition and the Literature of Medieval England accessible to scholars and students of Medieval English, comparatists, and historians, as well as those proficient in French. Calin develops a synthesis of medieval French and English literature that will be especially useful for classroom study.
Chaucer's French Contemporaries
Author: R. Barton PalmerGeoffrey Chaucer in Context
Author: Ian JohnsonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107035643
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 499
Book Description
Provides a rich and varied reference resource, illuminating the different contexts for Chaucer and his work.
Chaucer ́s Works
Author: Geoffrey ChaucerPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3734039606
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 869
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Chaucer ́s Works by Geoffrey Chaucer
Chaucer
Author: Geoffrey ChaucerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317891198
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
This new addition to the Longman Critical Readers Series provides an overview of the various ways in which modern critical theory has influenced Chaucer Studies over the last fifteen years. There is still a sense in the academic world, and in the wider literary community, that Medieval Studies are generally impervious to many of the questions that modern theory asks, and that it concerns itself only with traditional philological and historical issues. On the contrary, this book shows how Chaucer, specifically the Canterbury Tales, has been radically and excitingly 'opened up' by feminist, Lacanian, Bakhtinian, deconstructive, semiotic and anthropological theories to name but a few. The book provides an introduction to these new developments by anthologising some of the most important work in the field, including excerpts from book-length works, as well as articles from leading and innovative journals. The introduction to the volume examines in some detail the relation between the individual strengths of each of the above approaches and the ways in which a 'postmodernist' Chaucer is seen as reflecting them all. This convenient single volume collection of key critical analyses of Chaucer, which includes work from some journals and studies that are not always easily available, will be indispensable to students of Medieval Studies, Medieval Literature and Chaucer, as well as to general readers who seek to widen their understanding of the forces behind Chaucer's writing.
Chaucer
Author: David B. RaybinPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9780271035673
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
"Eleven essays that explore how modern scholarship interprets Chaucer's writings"--Provided by publisher.
Chaucer
Author: Marion TurnerPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691210152
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
"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.