Rereading Chaucer and Spenser

Rereading Chaucer and Spenser PDF Author: Rachel Stenner
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526136937
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 364

Book Description
Rereading Chaucer and Spenser: Dan Geffrey with the New Poete offers dynamic new approaches to the relationship between the works of Geoffrey Chaucer and Edmund Spenser. Contributors draw on current and emerging preoccupations in contemporary scholarship and offer new perspectives on poetic authority, influence, and intertextuality.

Second Thoughts

Second Thoughts PDF Author: David Galef
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814326473
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 388

Book Description
How does our perspective change after the first reading? What distortions emerge through repetition? How do we determine what's worth rereading and what is the role of such repetition in our lives? What are the gains and losses? This work investigates the rereading of texts from various genres.

Guide to Chaucer and Spenser

Guide to Chaucer and Spenser PDF Author: Frederick Gard Fleay
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 150

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Selections from the British Classics

Selections from the British Classics PDF Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
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Languages : en
Pages : 134

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A Commentary on the Poetry of Chaucer & Spenser

A Commentary on the Poetry of Chaucer & Spenser PDF Author: Adolphus Alfred Jack
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 398

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˜Aœ Commentary on the Poetry of Chaucer and Spenser

˜Aœ Commentary on the Poetry of Chaucer and Spenser PDF Author: Adolphus Alfred Jack
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Languages : en
Pages : 369

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Francis Bacon's New Atlantis

Francis Bacon's New Atlantis PDF Author: Bronwen Price
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526137380
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 222

Book Description
This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This volume of eight new essays by leading scholars provides a stimulating dialogue between a range of critical perspectives. Encompassing the fields of cultural history, history of science, literature, and politics, the collection explores The New Atlantis' complex location within Bacon's oeuvre and its negotiations with cultural debates of the past and present. Often regarded as the apotheosis of Bacon's ideas through its depiction of an advanced “scientific” society, it is also read as a seminal work of science fiction.

Making Chaucer's Book of the Duchess

Making Chaucer's Book of the Duchess PDF Author: Jamie C. Fumo
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1783163496
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 367

Book Description
- provides the first comprehensive overview of the critical history of Book of the Duchess - offers for the first time a thorough analysis of Book of the Duchess’s medieval and early modern reception - establishes Book of the Duchess’s structuring investment in the idea of ‘the book’ – its construction, consumption, and transmission - as it contributes to a poetics of intertextuality

Women Poets of the English Civil War

Women Poets of the English Civil War PDF Author: Sarah C. E. Ross
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ISBN: 9780719086243
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 362

Book Description
This anthology brings together extensive selections of poetry by the live most prolific and prominent women poets of the English Civil War period: Anne Bradstreet, Hester Puller, Margaret Cavendish, Katherine Philips and Lucy Hutchinson. These poets participated in elite poetic culture at the highest level, writing elegies, panegyrics and epics; they were politically engaged; and their female authorship strategies were nuanced but clear, as they took diverse approaches to publication in manuscript and print. Their poetry is at the centre of discussion and debate about early modern women's poetry, but until now, substantial edited selections of their work have not been available in one place. The anthology brings together the most innovative, complex poems of each writer, revealing the diversity of women's poetry in the mid-seventeenth century, as it traversed political affiliations and material forms. This anthology presents poems in modern-spelling, clear-text versions for classroom use, and for ready comparison to mainstream editions of male poets' work. Notes on the poems and an introduction explain the contexts of the Civil War, religious conflict, and scientific and literary development, and will serve students' and academics' needs alike. Women poets of the English Civil War is ideal for use alongside mainstream anthologies of early modern poetry, enabling a more comprehensive understanding of seventeenth-century women's poetic culture, in its own right, and in relation to prominent male poets such as Marvell, Milton and Dryden.

Polyphony and the Modern

Polyphony and the Modern PDF Author: Jonathan Fruoco
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000391086
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240

Book Description
Polyphony and the Modern asks one fundamental question: what does it mean to be modern in one’s own time? To answer that question, this volume focuses on polyphony as an index of modernity. In The Principle of Hope, Ernst Bloch showed that each moment in time is potentially fractured: people living in the same country can effectively live in different centuries – some making their alliances with the past and others betting on the future – but all of them, at least technically, enclosed in the temporal moment. But can a claim of modernity also mean something more ambitious? Can an artist, by accident or design, escape the limits of his or her own time, and somehow precociously embody the outlook of a subsequent age? This book sees polyphony as a bridge providing a terminology and a stylistic practice by which the period barrier between Medieval and Early Modern can be breached. Chapter 1 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781003129837