Author: Howard MillsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Chaucer's Comic Techniques: Percursors of the Modern
Author: Howard MillsChaucer's Humor
Author: Jean E. JostPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000681319
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Originally published in 1994. Chaucer is considered the first major humorist in English literature and is particularly interesting as he reflects the humor of predecessors and contemporaries as well as defines development for subsequent British humor. This collection presents essays that define the nature of Chaucerian humor, examine Chaucer’s works from a variety of theoretical perspectives, and consider genres of humor within his writing. This is an excellent work of critical discourse that adds important understanding of Chaucer as well as the field of comedy in literature.
The Essential Chaucer
Author: Mark Edward AllenPublisher: Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Lay Piety and Religious Discipline in Middle English Literature
Author: Nicole R. RicePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 052189607X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
Winner of the Medieval Academy of America's 2013 John Nicholas Brown Prize!
Annual Catalogue
Author: Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Chaucer's Dante
Author: Richard NeusePublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520348745
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Richard Neuse here explores the relationship between two great medieval epics, Dante's Divine Comedy and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. He argues that Dante's attraction for Chaucer lay not so much in the spiritual dimension of the Divine Comedy as in the human. Borrowing Bertolt Brecht's phrase "epic theater," Neuse underscores the interest of both poets in presenting, as on a stage, flesh and blood characters in which readers would recognize the authors as well as themselves. As spiritual autobiography, both poems challenge the traditional medieval mode of allegory, with its tendency to separate body and soul, matter and spirit. Thus Neuse demonstrates that Chaucer and Dante embody a humanism not generally attributed to the fourteenth century. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1991.
Shakespeare Survey
Author: Stanley WellsPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521523820
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
The first fifty volumes of this yearbook of Shakespeare studies are being reissued in paperback.
The Cambridge Companion to ‘The Canterbury Tales'
Author: Frank GradyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107181003
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
A lively and accessible introduction to the variety, depth, and wonder of Chaucer's best-known poem.
Live Artefacts
Author: Terence CavePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019267384X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Literary artefacts—the stories people tell, the songs they sing, the scenes they enact—are neither a by-product nor a side-issue in human culture. They provide a model of everything that cognition does. They refuse to separate thought from emotion, bodily responses from ethical reflection, perception from imagination, logic from desire. Above all, they demonstrate the essential fluidity and mobility of human cognition, its adaptive inventiveness. If we are astonished by the art of Chauvet or Lascaux as an early model of human cognition, then we should be continually astonished by what literature is and does as it reaches beyond itself to reimagine the world. This book argues that literary artefacts are quasi-autonomous living entities, fashioned to animate captured environments, embodied people and other creatures, ways of being and living that remain virtual. They own a freely delegated agency that allows them to speak to listeners and readers present and distant, present and future, adapting themselves and their meanings to whatever cognitive environment they encounter. Such an approach offers a way of linking a close attention to the specific properties of literary artefacts with the insights of cognitive anthropology and archaeology, and thus of satisfying the conditions for a properly interdisciplinary understanding of literature. It aims both to defend literary study against utilitarian and reductive arguments of all kinds and to argue that literary artefacts may give us new insights into how the mind (and its indispensable substratum, the brain) functions in the human ecology.
Annotated Chaucer Bibliography, 1986-1996
Author: Bege K. BowersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 760
Book Description
"A compilation of the bibliographical information accumulated over eleven years (1986-1996) in the Annual Journal of the New Chaucer Society, Studies in the Age of Chaucer" -- Preface.