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Chaucer's Language and the Philosophers Tradition
Av J.A. Burnley
Inbunden, 1970
1433 kr
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This book is designed to explore the various kinds of association found in Chaucer's lexical usage, and so to alert the reader to the wider implications of particular words and phrases. By concentrating on the `architecture' of the language, Dr Burnley offers what is in some respects an antidote to …
Chaucer's Dream Poetry: Sources and Analogues
Av Barry A. Windeatt, Barry A Windeatt
Inbunden, 1970
1433 kr
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This volume makes available in translation the texts that lie behind Chaucer's dream poems - The Book of the Duchess, The Parliament of Fowls, The House of Fame and Prologue to the Legend of Good Women. Chaucer's dream poems are now being increasingly studied and appreciated. With their …
Syntax and Style in Chaucer's Poetry
Av G H Roscow
Inbunden, 1970
1433 kr
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The purpose of this book is to give an outline of structural features of Chaucer's poetic syntax that are relevant to the study of style, and to define some general tendencies in his construction of sentences. What emerges is a fondness on Chaucer's part for discontinuity in the order of words and …
Chaucer and Pagan Antiquity
Inbunden, 1982
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Professor Minnis argues that the paganism in Troilus and Criseyde and The Knight's Taleis not simply a backdrop but must be central to our understanding of the texts. Chaucer's two great pagan poems, Troilus and Criseyde and The Knight's Tale, belong to the literary genre known as the `romance of …
Chaucer and the Poems of `CH'
Av James L. Wimsatt, James I. Wimsatt
Inbunden, 1982
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Translation of fifteen lyrics marked "Ch" found in University of Pennsylvania MS French 15, along with a detailed inventory of the contents and a study of English and Chaucerian connections.When Chaucer began his service inthe English courts in the late 1350s, the French lyric in the formes fixes …
Chaucer and the Imaginary World of Fame
Inbunden, 1984
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is one of Chaucer's most intellectually challenging poems, drawing on diverse traditions such as dream poetry and mythology, but unified by the central concept of Fame. It is this concept, and the `imaginary world' which surrounds it, which Professor Boitani explores in this volume in the Chaucer …
Introduction to Chaucerian English
Inbunden, 1985
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There is fairly general agreement that the modern reader's appreciation of Chaucer's writings can be enhanced by providing the reader with guides to `Chaucerian background' - literary, historical and cultural - and students of Chaucer are fortunate in having at their disposal a large number of …
Chaucer and the Early Writings of Boccaccio
Inbunden, 1985
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David Wallace's examination of the aims and literary affiliations of Boccaccio's early writings provides an indispensable preface to and context for an informed appraisal of Chaucer's usage of Boccaccio. Previous studies of the relationship between the work of the two poets have tended to consider …
Chaucer's Narrators
Av David Lawton
Inbunden, 1985
1229 kr
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The book begins with a brief prefatory discussion of its relation to structuralist and post-structuralist criticism. The first chapter, `Apocryphal Voices', surveys the basis of modern critical approaches to persona and `irony' in Chaucer's poetry, and suggests that such approaches are better …
Chaucer: Complaint and Narrative
Inbunden, 1988
1433 kr
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`Lively and interesting... Complaint and its interaction with its narrative context is explored across the range of Chaucer's oeuvre from the shorter poems to various Tales.' NOTES & QUERIESCounters the view of Chaucer's complaints as exercises in a worn-out French tradition by demonstrating how …
Chaucer's Religious Tales
Av C. David Benson, C. David Benson m. fl.
Inbunden, 1990
1433 kr
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These thirteen essays by distinguished Chaucerians deal with the most neglected genre of the Canterbury Tales, the religious tales. Although the prose works are also discussed, the primary focus of the volume is on Chaucer's four poems in rhyme royal: the Clerk's Tale, the Man of Law's Tale, the …
Eighteenth-Century Modernizations from the Canterbury Tales
Av Betsy Bowden
Inbunden, 1991
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This collection of 32 modernised versions of The Canterbury Tales which appeared in the 18th century offers basic material for studying the history of attitudes to Chaucer, and Chaucer scholarship, duringthe period. Reception data so precise and extensive is available only for Chaucer among English …
Essays on Troilus and Criseyde
Av Mary Salu
Häftad, 1991
383 kr
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`Each essay opens up new directions without ignoring past critical trends...an important guide for new approaches to the text and meaning of Troilus and Criseyde and, as such, an important contribution to Chaucerian scholarship.' CHOICE`Are we to take the tone from the ending and read the whole …
Manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales
Inbunden, 1991
1433 kr
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Owen investigates what the manuscripts of the Canterbury Tales reveal about the way they came into being.[see revs] This study of the manuscripts of the Canterbury Talescalls into question previous efforts to explain the complexities, the different orderings of the tales and the extraordinary …
Chaucer's Boccaccio
Sources for Troilus and the Knight's and Franklin's Tales
Häftad, 1980
345 kr
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The notes are a model of economy... The introduction is quite superb... The volume as a whole is a worthy addition to a series which has already begun to establish high expectations. TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION SUPPLEMENTChaucer made extensive use of Boccacio's romances as a basis for his major works, …
Chaucer's Boece and the Medieval Tradition of Boethius
Inbunden, 1993
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Chaucer's translation of Boethius' work is related to medieval intellectual culture, with attention to Trevet's Boethius commentary.This collection seeks to locate the Boece within the medievaltradition of the academic study and translation of the Consolatiophilosophiae, thereby relating the work …
Authorship of The Equatorie of the Planetis
Inbunden, 1993
1958 kr
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Detailed examination of the evidence linking the authorship of the Equatorie of the Planetis with Chaucer.The Equatorie of the Planetis, a Middle English text on the construction and use of a planetary equatorium, was composed in 1393. The unique manuscript, which appears to be the author's …
Chaucerian Realism
Av Robert Myles
Inbunden, 1994
1433 kr
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Myles challenges the convention of the `medieval mind' and perceives new semantic sophistication in Chaucer's language.NB DSB BLURB ON CERTAIN OCCASIONS What is the difference between saying something and meaning it, and saying something and not meaning it? A modern question. A Chaucerian question. …
Masculinities in Chaucer
Approaches to Maleness in the Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde
Inbunden, 1998
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Representations of masculinity in Chaucer's works examined through modern critical theory.How does Chaucer portray the various male pilgrims in the Canterbury Tales? How manly is Troilus? To what extent can the spirit and terminology of recent feminist criticism inform the study of Chaucer's men? …
Conquering the Reign of Femeny
Gender and Genre in Chaucer's Romance
Inbunden, 1995
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Close study of Chaucer's most important works shows how he used gender issues to extend the range of romance.The paradox of romance as a genre is that it contains multiple possibilities, yet remains profoundly constrained by its own terms and conventions. Through a close reading of several of …
Chaucer on Love, Knowledge and Sight
Inbunden, 1995
1433 kr
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Medieval natural philosophy illuminates Chaucer's use of the motif of sight and the relationship between love and knowledge.In this study, Norman Klassen shows how Chaucer explores the complexity of the relationship between love and knowledge through recourse to the motif of sight. The convention …
Chaucer's Approach to Gender in the Canterbury Tales
Av Anne Laskaya
Inbunden, 1995
1433 kr
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An original feminist approach, through a study of Chaucer's treatment of masculinity, to the Canterbury TalesThis volume presents a feminist approach to the Canterbury Tales, investigating the ways in which the tensions and contradictions found within the broad contours of medieval gender discourse …
Music in the Age of Chaucer
Revised edition, with `Chaucer Songs'
Häftad, 1995
383 kr
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Survey of the relationship between music and literature in 14c France, Italy and Britain, with appendix of all songs attributed to Chaucer.An absorbing survey... He is an expert on the French song of the period, consequently his wider view of Chaucer's musical background is well worth reading ... …
Chaucer's Philosophical Visions
Inbunden, 2000
1433 kr
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New readings of Chaucer's dream visions, demonstrating his philosophical interests and learning.Chaucer's Philosophical Visions dramatically extends our sense of the fourteenth-century poet's philosophical interests and learning.Arguing that Chaucer was well acquainted with late medieval English …
Chaucerian Tragedy
Häftad, 1997
435 kr
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A study of Chaucer's definition of tragedy - with special reference to Troilus -and its lasting influence on English dramatists.This book is concerned with the medieval idea of what constituted tragedy; it suggests that it was not a common term, and that those few who used the term did not always …
Feminizing Chaucer
Av Jill Mann
Häftad, 2002
345 kr
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An investigation of Chaucer's thinking about women, assessed in the light of developments in feminist criticism.Women are a major subject of Chaucer's writings, and their place in his work has attracted much recent critical attention. Feminizing Chaucer investigates Chaucer's thinking about women, …
New Readings of Chaucer's Poetry
Av Derek Brewer, Susan J. Ridyard m. fl.
Inbunden, 2003
1433 kr
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A wide range of new scholarship on Chaucer's poetry.This collection of essays makes available a wide range of new scholarship on Chaucer's poetry. Opening essays address the issues of "Chaucerian representation" and "Chaucerian poetics", arguing for the multiplicity and complexityof what Chaucer …
Language of the Chaucer Tradition
Inbunden, 2003
1433 kr
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A study of the language of Chaucerian manuscripts, printed editions and Chaucer's 15th century followers.Winner of the 2005 Beatrice White Prize for outstanding scholarly work in the field of English literature before 1590The manuscript copies of Chaucer's works preserve valuable information …
Ethics and Exemplary Narrative in Chaucer and Gower
Inbunden, 2004
1433 kr
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A lively defence of the ethics of exemplary narrative, and a detailed account of its forms and functioning in the works of Geoffrey Chaucer and John Gower.Why do medieval writers routinely make use of exemplary rhetoric? How does it work, and what are its ethical and poetical values? And if Chaucer …
Chaucer and the City
Inbunden, 2006
1420 kr
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Essays exploring Chaucer's identity as a London poet and the urban context for his writings.Literature of the city and the city in literature are topics of major contemporary interest. This volume enhances our understanding of Chaucer's iconic role as a London poet, defining the modern sense of …
