Download or read book Chaucer s Ovidian Arts of Love written by Michael A. Calabrese and published by . This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Remarkably readable, often witty. . . . This book breaks new and interesting ground by using the life of Ovid as a 'mirror' in which Chaucer saw and perhaps shaped himself. It will have a wide audience of both Chaucerians and classicists."--Julian Wasserman, Loyola University in New Orleans "Thoughtfully and carefully demonstrates how neo-Ovidianism affects Chaucer's poetic outlook."--Liam Purdon, Doane College More than any other poet in Chaucer's library, Ovid was concerned with the game of love. Chaucer learned his sexual poetics from Ovid, and his fascination with Ovidian love strategies is prominent in his own writing. This book is the fullest study of Ovid and Chaucer available and the only one to focus on love, desire, and the gender-power struggles that Chaucer explores through Ovid. Michael Calabrese begins by recounting medieval biographical data on Ovid, indicating the breadth of Ovid's influence in the Middle Ages and the depth of Chaucer's knowledge of the Roman poet's life and work. He then examines two of Chaucer's most enduring and important works--Troilus and The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale--in light of Ovid's turbulent corpus, maintaining that both poems ask the same Ovidian question: What can language and game do for lovers? Calabrese concludes by examining Chaucer's views of himself as a writer and of the complex relations between writer, text, and audience. "Chaucer, like Ovid, saw himself as vulnerable to the misunderstanding and woe that can befall a maker of fictions," he writes. "Like Ovid, Chaucer explores both the delights and also the dangers of being a 'servant of the servants of love.'. . . Now he must consider the personal, spiritual implications of being a verbal artist and love poet." Michael A. Calabrese is assistant professor of English at California State University, Los Angeles. His works on Chaucer have appeared in Chaucer Review, Studies in Philology, and other journals.
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer written by Suzanne Conklin Akbari and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-07 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the 'father' of the English literary canon, one of a very few writers to appear in every 'great books' syllabus, Chaucer is seen as an author whose works are fundamentally timeless: an author who, like Shakespeare, exemplifies the almost magical power of poetry to appeal to each generation of readers. Every age remakes its own Chaucer, developing new understandings of how his poetry intersects with contemporary ways of seeing the world, and the place of the subject who lives in it. This Handbook comprises a series of essays by established scholars and emerging voices that address Chaucer's poetry in the context of several disciplines, including late medieval philosophy and science, Mediterranean Studies, comparative literature, vernacular theology, and popular devotion. The volume paints the field in broad strokes and sections include Biography and Circumstances of Daily Life; Chaucer in the European Frame; Philosophy and Science in the Universities; Christian Doctrine and Religious Heterodoxy; and the Chaucerian Afterlife. Taken as a whole, The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer offers a snapshot of the current state of the field, and a bold suggestion of the trajectories along which Chaucer studies are likely to develop in the future.
Download or read book Ovid s Art of Love written by Ovid and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ovid s Art of Love written by Ovid and published by . This book was released on 1747 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ovid s Art of Love written by Ovid and published by . This book was released on 1764 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ovid s Art of Love Remedy of Love and Art of Beauty written by Ovid and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Handbook to the Reception of Ovid written by John F. Miller and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-10-31 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Handbook to the Reception of Ovid presents more than 30 original essays written by leading scholars revealing the rich diversity of critical engagement with Ovid’s poetry that spans the Western tradition from antiquity to the present day. Offers innovative perspectives on Ovid’s poetry and its reception from antiquity to the present day Features contributions from more than 30 leading scholars in the Humanities. Introduces familiar and unfamiliar figures in the history of Ovidian reception. Demonstrates the enduring and transformative power of Ovid’s poetry into modern times.
Download or read book Ovid s Art of Love in Three Books written by Ovid and published by . This book was released on 1747 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Art of Love written by Ovid and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1957 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " . . . Humphries has rendered (Ovid's) love poetry with conspicuous success into English which is neither obtrusively colloquial nor awkwardly antique." —Virginia Quarterly Review
Download or read book Ovid s Art of Love Remedy of Love and Art of Beauty written by Ovid and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chaucer s Works written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by anboco. This book was released on 2016-08-28 with total page 957 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geoffrey Chaucer, known as the Father of English literature, is widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages and was the first poet to be buried in Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey. While he achieved fame during his lifetime as an author, philosopher, and astronomer, composing a scientific treatise on the astrolabe for his ten-year-old son Lewis, Chaucer also maintained an active career in the civil service as a bureaucrat, courtier and diplomat. Among his many works are The Book of the Duchess, The House of Fame, The Legend of Good Women and Troilus and Criseyde. He is best known today for The Canterbury Tales. Chaucer's work was crucial in legitimizing the literary use of the Middle English vernacular at a time when the dominant literary languages in England were French and Latin.
Download or read book Reading the Ovidian Heroine written by Kathryn McKinley and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-09-18 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study investigates the reception of Ovid's heroines in Metamorphoses commentaries written between 1100 and 1618. The Ovidian heroine offers a telling window onto medieval and early modern clerical constructions of gender and selfhood. In the context of classical representations of the feminine, the book examines Ovid's engagement of the heroine to explore problems of intentionality. The second part of the study presents commentaries by such clerics as William of Orléans, the "Vulgate" commentator, Thomas Walsingham, and Raphael Regius, illustrating the reception of the Ovidian heroine in medieval France and England as well as in Renaissance Italy and Germany. The works analyzed here show that clerical readings of the feminine in Ovid reflect greater heterogeneity than is commonly alleged. Both moralizing summaries and Latin editions used as schooltexts are discussed.
Download or read book The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer The house of fame The legend of good women The treatise on the astrolabe with an account of the sources of the Canterbury tales written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ovid s Art of Love Remedy of Love and Art of Beauty To which is Added Chaucer s Court of Love Also Several Miscellaneous Pieces by Various Authors in Imitation of Ovid written by Ovid and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer The house of fame The legend of good women The treatise on the Astrolabe An account of the sources of the Canterbury tales written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chaucer s Italian Tradition written by Warren Ginsberg and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores provocative questions about the dynamics of cross-cultural translation and the formation of tradition
Download or read book An Introduction to Piers Plowman written by Michael A. Calabrese and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Langland's allegorical poem Piers Plowman is becoming ever more popular in medieval English literature courses. But most current introductions focus primarily on the B text, leaving a gap in available resources for the poem's study. As Piers Plowman continues to gain academic attention in all its three versions (the A, B, and C texts), teachers and students need a new perspective and new approach to the poem as an evolving whole. This first comprehensive introduction to Langland's masterful work covers all three iterations and outlines the various changes that occurred between each. Useful for individuals reading any version of Piers Plowman, this engaging guide offers a much-needed navigational summary, a chronology of historic events relevant to the poem, biographical notes about Langland, and keys to characters and proper pronunciation. Calabrese's definitive and refreshingly lively volume allows readers to navigate this daunting poem and to contextualize it within the literary history of Western culture.
