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Author : Derek Brewer
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 0859916073
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (599 download)
Download or read book The World of Chaucer written by Derek Brewer and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2000 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1978.
Author : Donald Roy Howard
Publisher : New York : Dutton
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 680 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Chaucer written by Donald Roy Howard and published by New York : Dutton. This book was released on 1987 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revered for centuries as the father of English poetry, Geoffrey Chaucer was also a central man of his age--a courtier, soldier, diplomat, public official, a man of action, and a man of the world. In this award-winning biography, Donald R. Howard recreates the public, private, and poetic life of this extraordinary man.
Author : Piero Boitani
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 0859911624
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (599 download)
Download or read book Chaucer and the Imaginary World of Fame written by Piero Boitani and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 1984 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No description available.
Author : Peter Brown
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019161968X
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book Geoffrey Chaucer (Authors in Context) written by Peter Brown and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-11 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chaucer lived through a period of extraordinary upheaval: a protracted war with France, devastating plague, the peasants' revolt, religious controversy, and the overthrow of the king. Compact and comprehensive, this book offers a wide-ranging account of the medieval society from which works such as The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde sprang, and shows how these and other works manifest that society in fictional form. Significant aspects of the literary scene, such as patronage, audience, and performance, help to place Chaucer's practices in their historical framework, and his treatment of love, paganism, and reality are framed within their intellectual and philosophical contexts. The modern reception of Chaucer in film and television adaptations is also examined. Seen through the lens of his cultural experience, this is the perfect critical companion to Chaucer's life and poetry. The book includes a chronology of Chaucer's life and time, suggestions for further reading, websites, illustrations, and a comprehensive index. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Author : Marion Turner
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691210152
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book Chaucer written by Marion Turner and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "More than any other canonical English writer, Geoffrey Chaucer lived and worked at the centre of political life--yet his poems are anything but conventional. Edgy, complicated, and often dark, they reflect a conflicted world, and their astonishing diversity and innovative language earned Chaucer renown as the father of English literature. Marion Turner, however, reveals him as a great European writer and thinker. To understand his accomplishment, she reconstructs in unprecedented detail the cosmopolitan world of Chaucer's adventurous life, focusing on the places and spaces that fired his imagination. Uncovering important new information about Chaucer's travels, private life, and the early circulation of his writings, this innovative biography documents a series of vivid episodes, moving from the commercial wharves of London to the frescoed chapels of Florence and the kingdom of Navarre, where Christians, Muslims, and Jews lived side by side. The narrative recounts Chaucer's experiences as a prisoner of war in France, as a father visiting his daughter's nunnery, as a member of a chaotic Parliament, and as a diplomat in Milan, where he encountered the writings of Dante and Boccaccio. At the same time, the book offers a comprehensive exploration of Chaucer's writings, taking the reader to the Troy of Troilus and Criseyde, the gardens of the dream visions, and the peripheries and thresholds of The Canterbury Tales. By exploring the places Chaucer visited, the buildings he inhabited, the books he read, and the art and objects he saw, this landmark biography tells the extraordinary story of how a wine merchant's son became the poet of The Canterbury Tales." -- Publisher's description.
Author : Derek Brewer
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9780859913669
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (136 download)
Download or read book Chaucer and His World written by Derek Brewer and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 1992 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chaucer's English world-that of the second half of the 14th century-is rich in interest of every kind, and Chaucer was a uniquely perceptive recorder of it. The tensions between tradition and innovation led to serve, sometimes violent, clashes; age-old traditions were contested by the new individualism among the educated, passionate religious dissent in high and low, and revolt by peasants.
Author : Lee Patterson
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299128340
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (283 download)
Download or read book Chaucer and the Subject of History written by Lee Patterson and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chaucer's interest in individuality was strikingly modern. He was aware of the pressures on individuality exerted by the past and by society - by history. Chaucer investigated not just the idea of history but the historical world intimately related to his own political and literary career. This book has shaped the way that Chaucer is read.
Author : Michael Herzog
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780997623468
Total Pages : 680 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (234 download)
Download or read book This Passing World written by Michael Herzog and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-14 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1398, and all of Europe is abuzz about the duel to be fought in September between Henry Bolingbroke, Duke of Hereford, and Thomas Mowbray , Duke of Norfolk, to settle the question of which one has committed treason against King Richard II. Geoffrey Chaucer, courtier and well-known poet, is unexpectedly drawn into the intrigue surrounding the impending duel and compelled to perform an act so heinous that he is shaken to the core. The journal Chaucer begins and keeps for the remaining two and a half years of his life chronicles his unlikely rise as the son of a middle-class wine broker to become not only the pre-eminent poet of his age but the brother-in-law of John of Gaunt, uncle to the king, at times the most powerful man in England and, with his three wives, the ancestor of every ruler of England since the year 1400. This novel provides a fascinating look into life in late 14th century England, the women and men Chaucer loves, the intrigues of the Richardian court, and what compels someone who holds some of the most important jobs in the English bureaucracy to spend his nights writing poetry that is still being read and studied 600 years after his death.
Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141959894
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)
Download or read book Love Visions written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2006-05-25 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning Chaucer's working life, these four poems build on the medieval convention of 'love visions' - poems inspired by dreams, woven into rich allegories about the rituals and emotions of courtly love. In The Book of the Duchess, the most traditional of the four, the dreamer meets a widower who has loved and lost the perfect lady, and The House of Fame describes a dream journey in which the poet meets with classical divinities. Witty, lively and playful, The Parliament of Birds details an encounter with the birds of the world in the Garden of Nature as they seek to meet their mates, while The Legend of Good Women sees Chaucer being censured by the God of Love, and seeking to make amends, for writing poems that depict unfaithful women. Together, the four create a marvellously witty, lively and humane self-portrait of the poet.
Author : John M. Fyler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107321107
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Language and the Declining World in Chaucer, Dante, and Jean de Meun written by John M. Fyler and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-07-16 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medieval commentaries on the origin and history of language used biblical history, from Creation to the Tower of Babel, as their starting-point, and described the progressive impairment of an originally perfect language. Biblical and classical sources raised questions for both medieval poets and commentators about the nature of language, its participation in the Fall, and its possible redemption. John M. Fyler focuses on how three major poets - Chaucer, Dante, and Jean de Meun - participated in these debates about language. He offers fresh analyses of how the history of language is described and debated in the Divine Comedy, the Canterbury Tales and the Roman de la Rose. While Dante follows the Augustinian idea of the Fall and subsequent redemption of language, Jean de Meun and Chaucer are skeptical about the possibilities for linguistic redemption and resign themselves, at least half-comically, to the linguistic implications of the Fall and the declining world.
Author : Winthrop Wetherbee
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521540100
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales written by Winthrop Wetherbee and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-11-10 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This introductory guide to Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales' examines the social diversity of Chaucer's pilgrims, the stylistic range of their tales and the psychological richness of their interaction.
Author : Robert Epstein
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 1786831708
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (868 download)
Download or read book Chaucer's Gifts written by Robert Epstein and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2018-02-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, the most celebrated literary work of medieval England, portrays the culture of the late Middle Ages as a deeply commercial environment, replete with commodities and dominated by market relationships. However, the market is not the only mode of exchange in Chaucer’s world or in his poem. Chaucer’s Gifts reveals the gift economy at work in the tales. Applying important recent advances in anthropological gift theory, it illuminates and explains this network of exchanges and obligations. Chaucer’s Gifts argues that the world of the Canterbury Tales harbours deep commitments to reciprocity and obligation which are at odds with a purely commercial culture, and demonstrates how the market and commercial relations are not natural, eternal, or inevitable – an essential lesson if we are to understand Chaucer’s world or our own.
Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book The Book of the Duchess written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-10 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book of the Duchess is a surreal poem that was presumably written as an elegy for Blanche, Duchess of Lancaster's (the wife of Geoffrey Chaucer's patron, the royal Duke of Lancaster, John of Gaunt) death in 1368 or 1369. The poem was written a few years after the event and is widely regarded as flattering to both the Duke and the Duchess. It has 1334 lines and is written in octosyllabic rhyming couplets.
Author : Paul Gregg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019958737X
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)
Download or read book The Labour Market in Winter written by Paul Gregg and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-27 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an overview of the key issues concerning the performance of the labour market and policy in the UK, with focus on the 2008 financial crisis, the ensuing recession, and its aftermath.
Author : Howard Phillips Lovecraft
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 874 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book H.P. Lovecraft Tales written by Howard Phillips Lovecraft and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 874 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume brings together 22 tales, the very best of [Lovecraft's] fiction"--Jacket.
Author : Tison Pugh
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813048354
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)
Download or read book An Introduction to Geoffrey Chaucer written by Tison Pugh and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2013-04-23 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geoffrey Chaucer is widely considered the father of English literature. This introduction begins with a review of his life and the cultural milieu of fourteenth-century England and then expands into analyses of such major works as The Parliament of Fowls, Troilus and Criseyde, and, of course, the Canterbury Tales, examining them alongside a selection of lesser known verses.
Author : George Gordon Coulton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Chaucer and His England written by George Gordon Coulton and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
