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Book Chaucer s Parlement of Foules

Download or read book Chaucer s Parlement of Foules written by Haldeen Braddy and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Chaucer s Queer Poetics

    Book Details:
  • Author : Susan Schibanoff
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 2006-01-01
  • ISBN : 0802090354
  • Pages : 376 pages

Download or read book Chaucer s Queer Poetics written by Susan Schibanoff and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geoffrey Chaucer was arguably fourteenth-century England's greatest poet. In the nineteenth century, readers of Chaucer's early dream poems - the Book of the Duchess, House of Fame, and Parliament of Fowles - began to detect a tripartite model of his artistic development from a French to an Italian, and finally to an English phase. They fleshed out this model with the liberation narrative, the inspiring story of how Chaucer escaped the emasculating French house of bondage to become the generative father of English poetry. Although this division has now largely been dismissed, both the tripartite model and the accompanying liberation narrative persist in Chaucer criticism. In Chaucer's Queer Poetics, Susan Schibanoff interrogates why the tripartite model remains so tenacious even when literary history does not support it. Revealing deeply rooted Francophobic, homophobic, and nationalistic biases, Schibanoff examines the development paradigm and demonstrates that 'liberated Chaucer' depends on antiquated readings of key source texts for the dream trilogy. This study challenges the long held view the Chaucer fled the prison of effete French court verse to become the 'natural' English father poet and charts a new model of Chaucerian poetic development that discovers the emergence of a queer aesthetic in his work.

Book A Compared Text of Chaucer s Parlement of Foules

Download or read book A Compared Text of Chaucer s Parlement of Foules written by Sachiho Tanaka and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Chaucer and the Cult of Saint Valentine

Download or read book Chaucer and the Cult of Saint Valentine written by Henry Ansgar Kelly and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1986 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Chaucer

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  • Author : John Leyerle
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 1986-12-15
  • ISBN : 1442655755
  • Pages : 280 pages

Download or read book Chaucer written by John Leyerle and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1986-12-15 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 900 entries, carefully selected, organized, and annotated, and accompanied by informative background material, make this volume a unique and indispensable guide to Chaucer and related studies. The entries are divided into three categories. The first includes materials necessary for the study of Chaucer’s works: complete editions, facsimiles, studies of manuscripts, canon, and dating, works on the poet’s life, language, and learning, and his sources and influences. The second section covers Chaucer’s works. The third contains a selection of secondary works which provide information on the age and the culture in which Chaucer lived; music, the visual arts, economics and politics, rhetoric and poetics, and sciences among the subjects included. Most entries listed are in English, but a few essential studies in French and German are included. Items have been selected not only on the basis of quality but also for importance in the history of scholarship, variety of approach, and specific usefulness to students and beginners.

Book The Bible in Early English Literature

Download or read book The Bible in Early English Literature written by David C. Fowler and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2018-03-05 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this companion to his previous book, The Bible in Early English Literature, David Fowler completes his stimulating and broad-ranging study of medieval English literature in the light of biblical tradition. As in the first volume, he both provides a broad general view of literary trends and closely examines representative works that illustrate these trends. The author begins by discussing medieval drama in England--with special attention to the Cornish drama-- as revealed in the cycle plays that enacted the entire history of the world from Creation to Doomsday. He demonstrates how the drama grew out of the liturgy of the Church and developed into a parallel fashion with other kinds of vernacular literature in the later Middle Ages, and he offers a possible explanation of the origin of the morality play in England. This is followed by an examination of representative shorter medieval lyrics. Fowler shows that many of these lyrics were composed to memorialize particular "secular' and "religious" elements blended subtly and distinctively in Middle English lyrics, often with a complete harmony of sacred and sexual significance. A special section deals with Mary Magdalene in popular tradition, comparing her description in the Bible with her treatment in legend, drama, lyric poetry, and the ballad. The final three chapters focus on particular literary works which the author believes to be outstanding examples of poems composed in the biblical tradition. "The Parliament of Fowls" is selected as the best example of biblical influence in all of Chaucer. The work is seen as a Creation poem with its organizing principles derives from commentaries on the first chapter of Genesis--a new theory of the poem's structure which the author feels resolves many of the difficulties previously encountered by scholars. Fowler than treats several works of the "Pearl" poet--"Cleanness," "Patience," "Saint Erkenwald," and the "Pearl"--in their particular blend of humor, seriousness, and Christian serenity. In stark contrast, "Piers the Plowman," the final work dealt with, reflects the agony of the turmoil of late fourteenth-century England. The emphasis is on the historical significance of the poem: the importance of the A text as an ideological influence on the leadership of the Peasants' Revolt in 1381, and the exschatological implications of the later versions (B and C texts). "It is my hope," the author states, "that future studies of 'Piers' will increasingly take history into account and likewise study the versions of the poem separately. Until we learn to walk from this text out into history, we run the risk of missing the important message that this profound and troubling poem offers to twentieth-century man." This book will be of value both to scholars and students of medieval literature and religion and to general readers interested in the varied and intriguing ways that the Bible has influence vernacular literature.

Book The Parlament of Foules

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  • Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1886
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 126 pages

Download or read book The Parlament of Foules written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Chaucer Criticism  Troilus and Criseyde   The minor poems

Download or read book Chaucer Criticism Troilus and Criseyde The minor poems written by Richard J. Schoeck and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixteen essays offer diverse interpretations of the artistry, imagery and themes found within Chaucer's monumental work.

Book The University of Mississippi Studies in English

Download or read book The University of Mississippi Studies in English written by University of Mississippi. Dept. of English and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Studies in English

Download or read book Studies in English written by University of Mississippi. Department of English and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Chaucer Criticism  The Canterbury tales

Download or read book Chaucer Criticism The Canterbury tales written by Richard J. Schoeck and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixteen essays offer diverse interpretations of the artistry, imagery and themes found within Chaucer's monumental work.

Book Chaucer s Lyrics and Anelida and Arcite

Download or read book Chaucer s Lyrics and Anelida and Arcite written by Russell A. Peck and published by Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Library of Congress Catalog

Download or read book Library of Congress Catalog written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cumulative list of works represented by Library of Congress printed cards.

Book Geoffrey Chaucer  Literary and Historical Studies

Download or read book Geoffrey Chaucer Literary and Historical Studies written by Haldeen Braddy and published by Port Washington, N.Y : Kennikat Press. This book was released on 1971 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Chaucer Life records

Download or read book Chaucer Life records written by Martin Michael Crow and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Medieval Texts and Contemporary Readers

Download or read book Medieval Texts and Contemporary Readers written by Laurie A. Finke and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-30 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection brings together twelve original essays by prominent medievalists which address problems posed by contemporary literary and cultural theory. Taken together, the essays call into question the view that contemporary criticism has little to say about medieval literature and that medieval studies should remain isolated from the issues of contemporary criticism. The contributors apply a variety of critical methodologies to explore issues in textuality, intertextuality, and the role of the reader in works of medieval writers as diverse as Chaucer, Dante, Christine de Pizan, Anselm, and Talavera. Incorporating critical approaches such as deconstructionism, Marxism, feminism, new-historicism and reader-response criticism, the essays place these writers and their texts within a wider realm of cultural reference that embraces philosophy, religion, rhetoric, history, politics, and anthropology.