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Author : Kathleen Stroing Dixon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Chaucer and the Literary Tradition of Fame written by Kathleen Stroing Dixon and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Benjamin Granade Koonce
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 140087694X
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Chaucer and the Tradition of Fame written by Benjamin Granade Koonce and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author's aim is to "restore to the reading of the poem a background of medieval meanings familiar enough to Chaucer’s contemporary reader but almost lost to the modem." Mr. Koonce believes that fame was a clearly defined Christian concept in the Middle Ages, and his interpretation of Chaucer’s allegory proceeds from that central focus. Originally published in 1966. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Oxford, Clarendon Press. 1893.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Hous of Fame written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by Oxford, Clarendon Press. 1893.. This book was released on 1893 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1605205214
Total Pages : 602 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2008-11-30 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is impossible to overstate the importance of English poet GEOFFREY CHAUCER (c. 1343 c. 1400) to the development of literature in the English language. His writings which were popular during his own lifetime with the nobility as well as with the increasingly literate merchant class marked the first celebration of the English vernacular as a tongue worthy of literary endeavor, most notably in his unfinished narrative poem The Canterbury Tales, the format and structure of which continues to be imitated by writers today. But the impact of Chaucer s work was felt even into the 16th and 17th centuries, when the first major collections of his writings set a high standard for how authors should be presented to the reading public. This widely esteemed seven-volume set first published in the 1890s by British academic WALTER WILLIAM SKEAT (1835 1912), Erlington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Cambridge University is based solely on Chaucer s original manuscripts and the earliest available published works (with any significant variations or deviations between versions highlighted in the extensive notes), and comes complete with Skeat s informative commentary on many passages. Volume III features: The Hous of Fame, one of Chaucer s earliest works, a poem some scholars consider a parody of Dante s Divine Comedy The Legend of Good Women, a dream-vision poem that represents an early major example of iambic pentameter in the English language A Treatise on the Astrolabe, the oldest work in English about a scientific instrument
Author : Isabel Davis
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1843844079
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Chaucer and Fame written by Isabel Davis and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2015 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fama, or fame, is a central concern of late medieval literature. Where fame came from, who deserved it, whether it was desirable, how it was acquired and kept were significant inquiries for a culture that relied extensively on personal credit and reputation. An interest in fame was not new, being inherited from the classical world, but was renewed and rethought within the vernacular revolutions of the later Middle Ages. The work of Geoffrey Chaucer shows a preoccupation with ideas on the subject of fama, not only those received from the classical world but also those of his near contemporaries; via an engagement with their texts, he aimed to negotiate a place for his own work in the literary canon, establishing fame as the subject-site at which literary theory was contested and writerly reputation won. Chaucer's place in these negotiations was readily recognized in his aftermath, as later writers adopted and reworked postures which Chaucer had struck, in their own bids for literary place. This volume considers the debates on fama which were past, present and future to Chaucer, using his work as a centre point to investigate canon formation in European literature from the late Middle Ages and into the Early Modern period. Isabel Davis is Senior Lecturer in Medieval Literature at Birkbeck, University of London; Catherine Nall is Senior Lecturer in Medieval Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London. Contributors: Joanna Bellis, Alcuin Blamires, Julia Boffey, Isabel Davis, Stephanie Downes, A.S.G. Edwards, Jamie C. Fumo, Andrew Galloway, Nick Havely, Thomas A. Prendergast, Mike Rodman Jones, William T. Rossiter, Elizaveta Strakhov.
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 : Benjamin Granade Koonce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (65 download)
Download or read book Chaucer and the Tradition of Fame written by Benjamin Granade Koonce and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Durham Medieval and Renaissanc
ISBN 13 : 9780888445636
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)
Download or read book The House of Fame written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by Durham Medieval and Renaissanc. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first version of this edition appeared in 1994 and was described by reviewers as "a considerable advance over the work of earlier editors" ('Journal of English and Germanic Philology'); "essential reading for those planning to write about the House of Fame" ('Speculum'); and "an edition which will be useful and informative to both students and Chaucer scholars alike" ('Review of English Studies'). Critical interest in The House of Fame has since continued to develop, and a re-issue of this edition by PIMS has provided an opportunity to acknowledge and support that interest. The 'Introduction and Commentary' have thus been thoroughly revised to take account of recent scholarship on the poem; glossing in footnotes to the Text and at the end of the volume has been extended; and a number of minor errors have been corrected.
Author : Ian Johnson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107035643
Total Pages : 499 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Geoffrey Chaucer in Context written by Ian Johnson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-11 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a rich and varied reference resource, illuminating the different contexts for Chaucer and his work.
Author : Charles Muscatine
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Chaucer and the French Tradition written by Charles Muscatine and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1965 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438112653
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)
Download or read book Geoffrey Chaucer written by Harold Bloom and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a selection of important older literary criticism of selected works by Geoffrey Chaucer.
Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317891198
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book Chaucer written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new addition to the Longman Critical Readers Series provides an overview of the various ways in which modern critical theory has influenced Chaucer Studies over the last fifteen years. There is still a sense in the academic world, and in the wider literary community, that Medieval Studies are generally impervious to many of the questions that modern theory asks, and that it concerns itself only with traditional philological and historical issues. On the contrary, this book shows how Chaucer, specifically the Canterbury Tales, has been radically and excitingly 'opened up' by feminist, Lacanian, Bakhtinian, deconstructive, semiotic and anthropological theories to name but a few. The book provides an introduction to these new developments by anthologising some of the most important work in the field, including excerpts from book-length works, as well as articles from leading and innovative journals. The introduction to the volume examines in some detail the relation between the individual strengths of each of the above approaches and the ways in which a 'postmodernist' Chaucer is seen as reflecting them all. This convenient single volume collection of key critical analyses of Chaucer, which includes work from some journals and studies that are not always easily available, will be indispensable to students of Medieval Studies, Medieval Literature and Chaucer, as well as to general readers who seek to widen their understanding of the forces behind Chaucer's writing.
Author : Grace E. Hadow
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)
Download or read book Chaucer and His Times written by Grace E. Hadow and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-17 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life and times of the famous English poet, author, and civil servant Geoffrey Chaucer, regarded widely as the "father of English literature", or, alternatively, the "father of English poetry", is the subject of this book. Exploring the mystery of Chaucer's background, author and literary critic, Grace E. Hadow also looks at the works of Chaucer pointing out that Chaucer's diversity of works include prose poetry, ballades, as well as scientific and philosophical writings. Some of his famous works critiqued include: 'The Book of the Duchess', 'The House of Fame', 'The Legend of Good Women', 'Troilus and Criseyde', and, of course, his most famous work, 'The Canterbury Tales'.
Author : Seth Lerer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691029237
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Chaucer and His Readers written by Seth Lerer and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging the view that the fifteenth century was the "Drab Age" of English literary history, Seth Lerer seeks to recover the late-medieval literary system that defined the canon of Chaucer's work and the canonical approaches to its understanding. Lerer shows how the poets, scribes, and printers of the period constructed Chaucer as the "poet laureate" and "father" of English verse. Chaucer appears throughout the fifteenth century as an adviser to kings and master of technique, and Lerer reveals the patterns of subjection, childishness, and inability that characterize the stance of Chaucer's imitators and his readers. In figures from the Canterbury Tales such as the abused Clerk, the boyish Squire, and the infantilized narrator of the "Tale of Sir Thopas," in the excuse-ridden narrator of Troilus and Criseyde, and in Chaucer's cursed Adam Scriveyn, the poet's inheritors found their oppressed personae. Through close readings of poetry from Lydgate to Skelton, detailed analysis of manuscript anthologies and early printed books, and inquiries into the political environments and the social contexts of bookmaking, Lerer charts the construction of a Chaucer unassailable in rhetorical prowess and political sanction, a Chaucer aureate and laureate.
Author : Philippa Morgan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781841198170
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (981 download)
Download or read book Chaucer and the House of Fame written by Philippa Morgan and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourteenth century is probably best remembered for the conflicts that raged between England and France, known collectively as the Hundred Years War. Begun by Edward III of England who laid claim to the throne of France, it had eventually run its weary course by the reign of his weak and ineffectual grandson Henry VI. Yet in 1370 the Hundred Years War was only a half of the way through, with England in imminent danger of losing most of her territorial possessions in France. At this critical moment in time, Geoffrey Chaucer, court envoy, ambitious poet, and protege of the king's powerful son John of Gaunt, is sent on a secret mission to the territory of the Comte de Guyac to persuade the French nobleman to stay loyal to the English cause. stronghold on the Dordogne in south-west France. The welcome is warm - Chaucer was once in love with Isabelle, the Comte's sister - but within a few days everything has changed. At the end of a hunting expedition, Guyac's body is discovered with a crossbow bolt through the throat. Suspicion points at the new English arrivals. So Chaucer must discover the real culprit if he is to save his own neck. The investigation will turn the poet and diplomat into a fugitive and the truth will not emerge until Chaucer joins Gaunt's brother Edward - known to history as the Black Prince - at the siege of Limoges, one of the crucial events in this endless war.
Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 373404071X
Total Pages : 682 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Chaucer ́s Works written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-09-21 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Chaucer ́s Works by Geoffrey Chaucer
