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Del 29 - Studies in Medieval Culture
Rebels and Rivals
The Contestive Spirit in The Canterbury Tales
Inbunden, Engelska, 1991
359 kr
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Strife occurs everywhere among characters in The Canterbury Tales, in the stories as well as the links between them. Characters seem always ready to dispute, contradict, declaim, and contend about almost anything. A competitive spirit suffuses the work, from the tale-telling among pilgrims and the personal rivalries that develop on the pilgrimage to the conflicts, beguilings, and one-uppings that go on in the tales. By understanding the rivalries of the Canterbury world, we may then recognize why Chaucer so insists on the individuality of the characters he creates, why so many characters (rightly or wrongly) resist structures, and why they challenge or reject social dogmas, often overturning them. The essays that make up this collection offer several provocative interpretations of the rivalrous and rebellious spirits that inhabit the worlds of Chaucer’s tales. The volume is intended for the dedicated teacher of Chaucer as well as for the specialist in medieval English studies. As Chaucer’s poem displays the contestive spirit of human affairs, so the collective spirit of these essays reflects vigorous debate and multi-faceted challenge.
Del 29 - Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture
Rebels and Rivals
The Contestive Spirit in The Canterbury Tales
Häftad, Engelska, 1991
282 kr
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Strife occurs everywhere among characters in The Canterbury Tales, in the stories as well as the links between them. Characters seem always ready to dispute, contradict, declaim, and contend about almost anything. A competitive spirit suffuses the work, from the tale-telling among pilgrims and the personal rivalries that develop on the pilgrimage to the conflicts, beguilings, and one-uppings that go on in the tales. By understanding the rivalries of the Canterbury world, we may then recognize why Chaucer so insists on the individuality of the characters he creates, why so many characters (rightly or wrongly) resist structures, and why they challenge or reject social dogmas, often overturning them. The essays that make up this collection offer several provocative interpretations of the rivalrous and rebellious spirits that inhabit the worlds of Chaucer's tales. The volume is intended for the dedicated teacher of Chaucer as well as for the specialist in medieval English studies. As Chaucer's poem displays the contestive spirit of human affairs, so the collective spirit of these essays reflects vigorous debate and multi-faceted challenge.
Häftad, Engelska, 1998
282 kr
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This edition compiles seven obscure Middle English lyrics which each illustrate how Christian doctrine can channel high emotion. Susanna Fein argues that these lyrics were meant to be meditated over as devotional objects, which would help readers unlock a heartfelt response to God, through contemplation of the Incarnation or Passion. Dating from the thirteenth through fifteenth centuries, these poems explore various kinds of love: eroticized attraction to Christ, Mary’s maternal compassion for her suffering son, the Incarnation as a sign of God’s love for mankind, and divine mercy. Highlights include “cross-poems” like Thomas of Hales’ Love Rune, The Four Leaves of the Truelove, and The Dispute between Mary and the Cross, in which the crucifix becomes an enigma for readers to decipher. Fein ends with a newly discovered version of the penitential poem, The Sinner’s Lament. Taken together, these poems make the signs of God’s love visible, palpable, and affectively moving to the receptive soul.