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Book Love and the Virtues and Vices in Chaucer

Download or read book Love and the Virtues and Vices in Chaucer written by Eugene Edward Slaughter and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Chaucer  Boccaccio  and the Debate of Love

Download or read book Chaucer Boccaccio and the Debate of Love written by N. S. Thompson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the Decameron and the Canterbury Tales have often been linked, this is the first ever major study of the two most popular medieval collections of framed narratives to examine the texts as a whole. The present study goes well beyond shared general similarities and the inconclusive search for source or analogue material in order to look at the internal dynamics of each text and the surprising similarities that emerge there in terms of theories of literature, authority and authorship and the particular reader response envisaged by their authors.

Book Virtue According to Love  in Chaucer

Download or read book Virtue According to Love in Chaucer written by Eugene Edward Slaughter and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Chaucer s General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales

Download or read book Chaucer s General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales written by Caroline D. Eckhardt and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This annotated, international bibliography of twentieth-century criticism on the Prologue is an essential reference guide. It includes books, journal articles, and dissertations, and a descriptive list of twentieth-century editions; it is the most complete inventory of modern criticism on the Prologue.

Book The Matter of Virtue

Download or read book The Matter of Virtue written by Holly A. Crocker and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2019-09-27 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If material bodies have inherent, animating powers—or virtues, in the premodern sense—then those bodies typically and most insistently associated in the premodern period with matter—namely, women—cannot be inert and therefore incapable of ethical action, Holly Crocker contends. In The Matter of Virtue, Crocker argues that one idea of what it means to be human—a conception of humanity that includes vulnerability, endurance, and openness to others—emerges when we consider virtue in relation to modes of ethical action available to premodern women. While a misogynistic tradition of virtue ethics, from antiquity to the early modern period, largely cast a skeptical or dismissive eye on women, Crocker seeks to explore what happened when poets thought about the material body not as a tool of an empowered agent whose cultural supremacy was guaranteed by prevailing social structures but rather as something fragile and open, subject but also connected to others. After an introduction that analyzes Hamlet to establish a premodern tradition of material virtue, Part I investigates how retellings of the demise of the title female character in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, Henryson's Testament of Cresseid, and Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida among other texts structure a poetic debate over the potential for women's ethical action in a world dominated by masculine violence. Part II turns to narratives of female sanctity and feminine perfection, including ones by Chaucer, Bokenham, and Capgrave, to investigate grace, beauty, and intelligence as sources of women's ethical action. In Part III, Crocker examines a tension between women's virtues and household structures, paying particular attention to English Griselda- and shrew-literatures, including Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew. She concludes by looking at Chaucer's Legend of Good Women to consider alternative forms of virtuous behavior for women as well as men.

Book Chaucer s Miller s  Reeve s  and Cook s Tales

Download or read book Chaucer s Miller s Reeve s and Cook s Tales written by David Biggs and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An annotated bibliography describing editing and critical works on three of Chaucer's tales. The authors make extensive use of the standard bibliographies of English literature, medieval studies, and Chaucerian studies.

Book Love  history and emotion in Chaucer and Shakespeare

Download or read book Love history and emotion in Chaucer and Shakespeare written by Andrew James Johnston and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2016-02-05 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays explores medieval and early modern Troilus-texts from Chaucer to Shakespeare. The contributions show how medieval and early modern fictions of Troy use love and other emotions as a means of approaching the problem of tradition. As these texts reflect on their own traditionality, they highlight both the affective nature of temporality and the role of affect in scrutinising tradition itself. Focusing on a specific textual lineage that bridges the conventional period boundaries, the collection participates in an exchange between medievalists and early modernists that seeks to generate a dialogic encounter between the periods with the aim of further dismantling the rigid notions of chronology and periodisation that have kept medieval and early modern scholarship apart.

Book Signs and Symbols in Chaucer s Poetry

Download or read book Signs and Symbols in Chaucer s Poetry written by John P. Hermann and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Signs and Symbols in Chaucer's Poetry presents the work of nine distinguished Chaucer scholars inspired by the work of D. W. Robertson Jr., whose seminal 1969 study Preface to Chaucer has exerted wide influence in medieval studies and sparked new interest in the literary iconography of Middle English.

Book Chaucer  s Squire  s Tale  Franklin  s Tale  and Physician  s Tale

Download or read book Chaucer s Squire s Tale Franklin s Tale and Physician s Tale written by Kenneth Bleeth and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2018-11-19 with total page 597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The latest volume in the Chaucer Bibliographies series, meticulously assembled by Kenneth Bleeth, is the most comprehensive record of scholarship on Chaucer's Squire's Tale, Franklin's Tale, and Physician's Tale.

Book Life and Times of Chaucer

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Gardner
  • Publisher : Barnes & Noble Publishing
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN : 9780760712818
  • Pages : 356 pages

Download or read book Life and Times of Chaucer written by John Gardner and published by Barnes & Noble Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book On Love and Virtue  Theological Essays

Download or read book On Love and Virtue Theological Essays written by Michael S. Sherwin and published by Emmaus Academic. This book was released on 2018-12-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to love? What are the traits of character that support love’s activity? How does the economy of grace—the mission of Christ and the action of the Holy Spirit—elevate and transform human love, virtue, and the desire for happiness? In On Love and Virtue: Theological Essays, the eminent Dominican theologian Michael Sherwin considers how the Catholic tradition has addressed these questions. Fr. Sherwin places this tradition in dialogue with contemporary questions. Taking St. Thomas Aquinas as his primary guide, Fr. Sherwin reads St. Thomas in light of his biblical and patristic sources (especially St. Augustine) and engages contemporary developments in philosophy in order to deepen our understanding of how grace both heals and elevates human nature. Along the way, Fr. Sherwin considers the vocation of the theologian and the biblical and patristic understanding of the Christian call to moral apprenticeship and friendship with God.

Book Chaucer s  art Poetical

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jörg O. Fichte
  • Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
  • Release : 1980
  • ISBN : 9783878084419
  • Pages : 144 pages

Download or read book Chaucer s art Poetical written by Jörg O. Fichte and published by Gunter Narr Verlag. This book was released on 1980 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Life   Times of Chaucer

Download or read book The Life Times of Chaucer written by John Gardner and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2010-09-21 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIV The pinnacle of Gardner’s medieval scholarship: a fascinating re-creation of the world of one of history’s greatest writers In this exquisite biography, John Gardner brings to life Geoffrey Chaucer, illuminating his writings and their inspiration like never before. Through exhaustive research and expert storytelling, Gardner takes readers through Chaucer’s varied career—from writing The Canterbury Tales to performing diplomatic work at the Parliament—and creates a fully realized portrait of an author whose work would remake the English language forever. Written with passion and insight, this a must-read for those interested in Chaucer and the medieval time period. This ebook features a new illustrated biography of John Gardner, including original letters, rare photos, and never-before-seen documents from the Gardner family and the University of Rochester Archives. /div

Book Chaucer and the Making of English Poetry  Volume 2

Download or read book Chaucer and the Making of English Poetry Volume 2 written by P. M. Kean and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-23 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1972. This important work of Chaucerian scholarship deals with two aspects of the poet and his work - his individual achievement and his place in history - and demonstrates that in both these senses Chaucer is a maker of English poetry. The author explores Chaucer’s narrative art. The book includes an examination of the puzzling question of narrative structure in the Canterbury Tales and of the nature of Chaucerian comedy in these works. The author surveys the major themes of the poems: Fortune and free will, marriage, and the nobleness of man. In the final chapter she treats of the meaning of Chaucer’s art for his successors. Throughout the work, Miss Kean deals extensively with the sources which Chaucer used for the writing of his poems, in a way which directs light on the more difficult aspects of his art.

Book Chaucer

    Book Details:
  • Author : Edward Wagenknecht
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1959
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 440 pages

Download or read book Chaucer written by Edward Wagenknecht and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Virtues and Vices in the Arts

Download or read book The Virtues and Vices in the Arts written by Shawn R Tucker and published by Lutterworth Press. This book was released on 2015-08-27 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The seven deadly sins are pride, envy, anger, sloth, gluttony, greed, and lust. The seven virtues are prudence, fortitude, temperance, justice, faith, hope, and love. 'The Virtues and Vices in the Arts' brings all of them together and for the first time lays out their history in a collection of the most important philosophical, religious, literary, and art-historical works. Starting with the Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian antecedents, this anthology of source documents traces the tradition ofvirtues and vices through its cultural apex during the medieval era and then into their continued development and transformation from the Renaissance to the present. This anthology includes excerpts of Plato's 'Republic', the Bible, Dante's 'Purgatorio', and the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche and C.S. Lewis. Also included are works of art from medieval manuscripts; paintings by Giotto, Veronese, and Paul Cadmus; prints by Brueghel; and a photograph by Oscar Rejlander. What these works show is the vitality and richness of the virtues and vices in the arts from their origins to the present.

Book Love s Fools    Aucassin  Troilus  Calisto and the Parody of the Courtly Lover

Download or read book Love s Fools Aucassin Troilus Calisto and the Parody of the Courtly Lover written by June Hall Martin and published by Tamesis Books. This book was released on 1972 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: