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Chaucer's Poetic Alchemy

Author : Sheila Fisher
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000682943
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Chaucer's Poetic Alchemy written by Sheila Fisher and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-16 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1988. The economic changes and the growth of commerce in fourteenth century England precipitated both social changes and a preoccupation with material wealth. This book examines Chaucer's treatment of economic and ethical value in The Canterbury Tales within the context of contemporary economic and social change and in relation to the scholastic economic theory that attempted to formulate ethical standards for commercial conduct. The importance of value and its determination and transformation is evident from the two enterprises that Chaucer defines as the motivating principles for his poem. The pilgrimage to St. Thomas's shrine should effect a transformation of their spiritual value. The story-telling competition that produces the tales themselves is established to judge the value of the pilgrims' literary productions. In the Middle Ages, economic value and ethical value were not perceived as unrelated phenomena. Chaucer's concern with the interrelationship of material and moral value is apparent in the number of pilgrims who are interested in material value at the obvious expense of moral value. This book examines this along with a discussion or money's growing importance in the late Middle Ages and the determination of its value.

Darke Hierogliphicks

Author : Stanton J. Linden
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813182875
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Darke Hierogliphicks written by Stanton J. Linden and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The literary influence of alchemy and hermeticism in the work of most medieval and early modern authors has been overlooked. Stanton Linden now provides the first comprehensive examination of this influence on English literature from the late Middle Ages through the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Drawing extensively on alchemical allusions as well as on the practical and theoretical background of the art and its pictorial tradition, Linden demonstrates the pervasiveness of interest in alchemy during this three-hundred-year period. Most writers—including Langland, Gower, Barclay, Eramus, Sidney, Greene, Lyly, and Shakespeare—were familiar with alchemy, and references to it appear in a wide range of genres. Yet the purposes it served in literature from Chaucer through Jonson were narrowly satirical. In literature of the seventeenth century, especially in the poetry of Donne, Herbert, Vaughan, and Milton, the functions of alchemy changed. Focusing on Bacon, Donne, Herbert, Vaughan, and Milton—in addition to Jonson and Butler—Linden demonstrates the emergence of new attitudes and innovative themes, motifs, images, and ideas. The use of alchemy to suggest spiritual growth and change, purification, regeneration, and millenarian ideas reflected important new emphases in alchemical, medical, and occultist writing. This new tradition did not continue, however, and Butler's return to satire was contextualized in the antagonism of the Royal Society and religious Latitudinarians to philosophical enthusiasm and the occult. Butler, like Shadwell and Swift, expanded the range of satirical victims to include experimental scientists as well as occult charlatans. The literary uses of alchemy thus reveal the changing intellectual milieus of three centuries.

Chaucer the Alchemist

Author : Alexander N. Gabrovsky
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781349555635
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (556 download)

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Download or read book Chaucer the Alchemist written by Alexander N. Gabrovsky and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The secrets of nature's alchemy captivated both the scientific and literary imagination of the Middle Ages. This book explores Chaucer's fascination with earth's mutability. Gabrovsky reveals that his poetry represents a major contribution to a medieval worldview centered on the philosophy of physics, astronomy, alchemy, and logic.

Chaucer the Alchemist

Author : Alexander N. Gabrovsky
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137523913
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Chaucer the Alchemist written by Alexander N. Gabrovsky and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The secrets of nature's alchemy captivated both the scientific and literary imagination of the Middle Ages. This book explores Chaucer's fascination with earth's mutability. Gabrovsky reveals that his poetry represents a major contribution to a medieval worldview centered on the philosophy of physics, astronomy, alchemy, and logic.

Chaucer's Pilgrims

Author : Robert Thomas Lambdin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313019487
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Chaucer's Pilgrims written by Robert Thomas Lambdin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1999-04-30 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chaucer's Canterbury Tales is one of the oldest and most widely studied works of English literature. The tales provide a glimpse of medieval life, and the professions of the pilgrims figure prominently in the poetry. To have a clear understanding of Chaucer's work, the reader needs to know about the vocations of the pilgrims. For some 600 years, this information has been difficult to locate. This reference work conveniently synthesizes and discusses information about the occupation of each of Chaucer's pilgrims and provides an historical context. The volume contains individual entries for each of Chaucer's pilgrims, and the entries share a similar format to foster comparison. Each entry includes three parts. First, the pilgrim's profession is discussed in terms of the daily routine of the medieval occupation. Second, the vocation is examined in terms of its reflection in the tale told by the pilgrim. Third, the vocation and the tale are discussed, when possible, in relation to the descriptions of the characters provided in the General Prologue. Each entry includes a bibliography, and the volume concludes with a list of works for further reading.

Routledge Library Editions: Chaucer

Author : Various
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000682536
Total Pages : 4802 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Routledge Library Editions: Chaucer written by Various and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-08-29 with total page 4802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reissuing works originally published between 1964 and 1994, this superb set of books is an array of scholarship on one of the most important authors of the medieval period. Some of these titles are introductory books on Chaucer and his works but others are specifically focused on his humour, or the sources he drew from, or his importance to the development of English poetry, and between them they address all of his works, not only the Canterbury Tales. A good coverage of critical study in the area of medieval poetry that contains interesting fodder for any literature student or academic.

Alchemy and Exemplary Poetry in Middle English Literature

Author : Curtis Runstedler
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031266064
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (312 download)

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Download or read book Alchemy and Exemplary Poetry in Middle English Literature written by Curtis Runstedler and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-03-27 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the different functions and metaphorical concepts of alchemy in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Middle English poetry and bridges them together with the exempla tradition in late medieval English literature. Such poetic narratives function as exemplary models which directly address the ambiguity of medieval English alchemical practice. This book examines the foundation of this relationship between alchemical narrative and exemplum in the poetry of Gower and Chaucer in the fourteenth century before exploring its diffusion in lesser-known anonymous poems and recipes in the fifteenth century, namely alchemical dialogues between Morienus and Merlin, Albertus Magnus and the Queen of Elves, and an alchemical version of John Lydgate’s poem The Churl and the Bird. It investigates how this exemplarity can be read as inherent to understanding poetic narratives containing alchemy, as well as enabling the reader to reassess the understanding and expectations of science and narrative within medieval English poetry.

Chaucer's "art Poetical"

Author : Jörg O. Fichte
Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783878084419
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (844 download)

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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:

Love Visions

Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141959894
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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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.

Chaucer, Ethics, and Gender

Author : Alcuin Blamires
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191530247
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Chaucer, Ethics, and Gender written by Alcuin Blamires and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2006-04-06 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book makes a vigorous reassessment of the moral dimension in Chaucer's writings. For the Middle Ages, the study of human behaviour generally signified the study of the morality of attitudes, choices, and actions. Moreover, moral analysis was not gender neutral: it presupposed that certain virtues and certain failings were largely gender-specific. Alcuin Blamires - mainly concentrating on The Canterbury Tales - discloses how Chaucer adapts the composite inherited traditions of moral literature to shape the significance and the gender implications of his narratives. Chaucer, Ethics, and Gender is therefore not a theorization of ethical reading but a discussion of Chaucer's engagement with the literature of practical ethical advice. Working with the commonplace primary sources of the period, Blamires demonstrates that Stoic ideals, somewhat uncomfortably absorbed within medieval Christian moral codes as Chaucer realized, penetrate the poet's constructions of how women and men behave in matters (for instance) of friendship and anger, sexuality and chastity, protest and sufferance, generosity and greed, credulity and foresight. The book will be absorbing for all serious readers or teachers of Chaucer because it is packed with commanding new insights. It offers illuminating explanations concerning topics that have often eluded critics in the past: the flood-forecast in The Miller's Tale, for example; or the status of emotion and equanimity in The Franklin's Tale; the 'unethical' sexual trading in the Shipman's Tale; the contemporary moral force of a widow's curse in The Friar's Tale; and the quizzical moral link between the Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale. There is even a new hypothesis about the conceptual design of The Canterbury Tales as a whole. Deeply informed and historically alert, this is a book that engages its reader in the vital role played by ethical assumptions (with their attendant gender assumptions) in Chaucer's major poetry.

Chaucer

Author : Derek Traversi
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
ISBN 13 : 9780874133066
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Chaucer written by Derek Traversi and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces through Chaucer's earlier poems the development of his understanding of the creative possibilities and the limitations of his art. The discussion includes authority and experience in three works, and demonstrates how the creative process defined in the study led to the masterpiece Troilus and Criseyde.

Chaucer's Poetry: An Anthology for the Modern Reader

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1016 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer

Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Poetical works of Geoffrey Chaucer: Canterbury tales

Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poetical works of Geoffrey Chaucer: Canterbury tales written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Alchemical Poetry, 1575-1700

Author : Robert M. Schuler
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136159282
Total Pages : 712 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (361 download)

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Download or read book Alchemical Poetry, 1575-1700 written by Robert M. Schuler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-02-11 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of interest to interdisciplinary historians as well as those in various other fields, this book presents the first publication of 14 poems ranging from 12 to 3,000 lines. The poems are printed in the chronological order of their composition, from Elizabethan to Augustan times, but nine of them are verse translations of works from earlier periods in the development of alchemy. Each has a textual and historical introduction and explanatory note by the Editor. Renaissance alchemy is acknowledged as an important element in the histories of early modern science and medicine. This book emphasises these poems’ expression of and shaping influence on religious, social and political values and institutions of their time too and is a useful reference work with much to offer for cultural studies and literary studies as well as science and history.

Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. Edited by Robert Bell [assisted by John M. Jephson].

Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. Edited by Robert Bell [assisted by John M. Jephson]. written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer: Canterbury tales.- v. 3. Troylus and Cryseyde, etc.-v. 4. Romaunt of the rose, etc

Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 560 pages
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Download or read book Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer: Canterbury tales.- v. 3. Troylus and Cryseyde, etc.-v. 4. Romaunt of the rose, etc written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: