Chaucer and the Poets

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Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501707094
Total Pages : 262 pages
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Book Synopsis Chaucer and the Poets by : Winthrop Wetherbee

Download or read book Chaucer and the Poets written by Winthrop Wetherbee and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this sensitive reading of Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde, Winthrop Wetherbee redefines the nature of Chaucer’s poetic vision. Using as a starting point Chaucer’s profound admiration for the achievement of Dante and the classical poets, Wetherbee sees the Troilus as much more than a courtly treatment of an event in ancient history—it is, he asserts, a major statement about the poetic tradition from which it emerges. Wetherbee demonstrates the evolution of the poet-narrator of the Troilus, who begins as a poet of romance, bound by the characters’ limited worldview, but who in the end becomes a poet capable of realizing the tragic and ultimately the spiritual implications of his story.

Design in Chaucer's Troilus

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 552 pages
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Book Synopsis Design in Chaucer's Troilus by : Sanford Brown Meech

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A Preface to Chaucer

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Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400876117
Total Pages : 631 pages
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Book Synopsis A Preface to Chaucer by : Durant Waite Robertson

Download or read book A Preface to Chaucer written by Durant Waite Robertson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 631 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What were the medieval stylistic, aesthetic, and literary conventions that Chancer drew upon and knew that his audience would understand? In this rich study Mr. Robertson has included 118 illustrations-of medieval sculpture, cathedral interiors, illuminated manuscripts, paintings, ornamental devices and decorations-to show how these conventions affected the visual arts of Chaucer's time. Special attention is directed to fundamental differences between medieval and modern attitudes toward poetry, and to the significance of these differences for an approach to medieval art. By placing Chaucer fully in his own time, Mr. Robertson establishes new perspectives for understanding Chaucer’s poetry. His book is like a rich tapestry weaving together many threads. Originally published in 1962. 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.

Chaucer

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Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691210152
Total Pages : 626 pages
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Book Synopsis Chaucer by : Marion Turner

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.

The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107494648
Total Pages : 510 pages
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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer by : Piero Boitani

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer written by Piero Boitani and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-12 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer is an extensively revised version of the first edition, which has become a classic in the field. This new volume responds to the success of the first edition and to recent debates in Chaucer Studies. Important material has been updated, and new contributions have been commissioned to take into account recent trends in literary theory as well as in studies of Chaucer's works. New chapters cover the literary inheritance traceable in his works to French and Italian sources, his style, as well as new approaches to his work. Other topics covered include the social and literary scene in England in Chaucer's time, and comedy, pathos and romance in the Canterbury Tales. The volume now offers a useful chronology, and the bibliography has been entirely updated to provide an indispensable guide for today's student of Chaucer.

Oxford Guides to Chaucer: Troilus and Criseyde

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198878834
Total Pages : 477 pages
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Book Synopsis Oxford Guides to Chaucer: Troilus and Criseyde by : Barry Windeatt

Download or read book Oxford Guides to Chaucer: Troilus and Criseyde written by Barry Windeatt and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-08-24 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive critical guide to Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde. This new edition has been comprehensively revised in light of the latest scholarly and critical research and with a fully updated bibliography. It includes a full account of Chaucer's imaginative deployment of his sources, and an extended survey of this narrative poem's innovative combination of a range of generic identities. The chapters explain how Chaucer builds thematic significance into his poem's symmetrical structure, and the poem's distinctive variety in style and language, as well as a full commentary on the poem's concerns with love in the contexts of time and mutability and human free will. The Guide explores the poem as an extended debate about the nature and value of love, and how love was conceptualized and experienced as a form of service in quest of compassionate reward, a quasi-religious devotion, and a potentially fatal illness always in hope of cure. The subjectivities of the chief protagonists are fully analysed, as is the poem's problematic ending. Alongside discussions of theme and structure, there is also an account of what the extant manuscripts of Troilus and Criseyde may reveal about the poem's early genesis, and a unique survey of responses to Troilus from its own times to the present day. Barry Windeatt's contribution to the series is a comprehensive single-volume guide to Troilus and Criseyde, bringing together a wide range of material and providing a readable commentary on all aspects of the work. Combining the informative substance of a reference book with the coherence of a critical reading, the Guide has taken its place as the standard introduction to Troilus and Criseyde since its first publication in 1992.

'Troilus and Criseyde'

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521191440
Total Pages : 217 pages
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Book Synopsis 'Troilus and Criseyde' by : Jenni Nuttall

Download or read book 'Troilus and Criseyde' written by Jenni Nuttall and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-21 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A scene-by-scene reader's guide to Geoffrey Chaucer's Trojan War poem specifically designed for student readers.

Chaucer and the French Tradition

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Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
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Book Synopsis Chaucer and the French Tradition by : Charles Muscatine

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:

Chaucer's Neoplatonism

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Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498561942
Total Pages : 211 pages
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Book Synopsis Chaucer's Neoplatonism by : John M. Hill

Download or read book Chaucer's Neoplatonism written by John M. Hill and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-12-20 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although centrally focused on varieties of friendship and love in Troilus and Criseyde, the discussion in Chaucer’s Neoplatonism includes the dream visions as well as aspects of The Canterbury Tales. It lays out Chaucer’s Boethian-inspired, cognitive approach, drawn mainly from Book V of the Consolatio, to whatever subject he treats. Far from courting skepticism, Chaucer gathers many variants of such matters as love, friendship, and community within a meditative mode that assess better and worse instances. He does so to illuminate a fuller sense of the forms that respectively underlie particular manifestations of love, joy, friendship or community. That process is both cognitive and aesthetic in that beauty and truth appear more fully as one assess both better and worse instances of an idea or of an experience. Chapters on the dream visions establish Chaucer’s reasonable belief in the truth-value of fictions, however grounded on exaggerated and mixed tidings of truth and falsehood. Chapters on Troilus and Criseyde examine relationships between the main characters given the place of noble friendship within an initially promising but then tragic love story. The drama of those relationships become Chaucer’s major claim to fame before the tales of Canterbury, where, for meditative purposes, he gathers various gestures toward community among the dramatically interacting pilgrims, while also exploring the dynamics of reconciliation.

Il Filostrato

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429656033
Total Pages : 510 pages
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Book Synopsis Il Filostrato by : Giovanni Boccaccio

Download or read book Il Filostrato written by Giovanni Boccaccio and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-23 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1986, this translated version of Giovanni Boccaccio's Il Filostrato is of particular interest as the principal source for Chaucer's great work, the Troilus. This edition includes the original Italian alongside the translation, so that even the English reader with no knowledge of Italian will be able to make out a good deal of the original assisted by a close translation.

Style and Consciousness in Middle English Narrative

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Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400855179
Total Pages : 189 pages
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Book Synopsis Style and Consciousness in Middle English Narrative by : John M. Ganim

Download or read book Style and Consciousness in Middle English Narrative written by John M. Ganim and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John M. Ganim presents a revised theory of late medieval literary history based on the relationship of the poet to the reader. His work shows how the increasingly compromised exemplary intent of later medieval poets led them to dramatize the reader as a character in the text and to develop complex forms of narrative characterized by discontinuity, distortion, and disorientation. Originally published in 1983. 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.

Il Filostrato

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780367111182
Total Pages : 512 pages
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Book Synopsis Il Filostrato by : Giovanni Boccaccio

Download or read book Il Filostrato written by Giovanni Boccaccio and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-06 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1986, this translated version of Giovanni Boccaccio's Il Filostrato is of particular interest as the principal source for Chaucer's great work, the Troilus. This edition includes the original Italian alongside the translation, so that even the English reader with no knowledge of Italian will be able to make out a good deal of the original assisted by a close translation.

The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer

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Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
ISBN 13 : 0199582653
Total Pages : 689 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer by : Suzanne Conklin Akbari

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer written by Suzanne Conklin Akbari and published by Oxford Handbooks. This book was released on 2020 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook addresses Chaucer's poetry in the context of several disciplines, including late medieval philosophy and science, Mediterranean culture, comparative European literature, vernacular theology and popular devotion.

Geoffrey Chaucer in Context

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107035643
Total Pages : 499 pages
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Book Synopsis Geoffrey Chaucer in Context by : Ian Johnson

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.

Geoffrey Chaucer

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Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438112653
Total Pages : 433 pages
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Book Synopsis Geoffrey Chaucer by : Harold Bloom

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.

The Quarterly Review

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 602 pages
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Book Synopsis The Quarterly Review by : William Gifford

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The Sources of Chaucer's Poetics

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135188168X
Total Pages : 180 pages
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Book Synopsis The Sources of Chaucer's Poetics by : Amanda Holton

Download or read book The Sources of Chaucer's Poetics written by Amanda Holton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on four aspects of Chaucer's poetics-use of narrative, speech, rhetoric, and figurative language-this is the first book-length study to identify Chaucer's distinctive poetic strategies by making specific comparisons with known textual sources. The author provides a combination of analysis of both poetic stylistics and sources, reading The Legend of Good Women and five of The Canterbury Tales (The Knight's Tale, The Man of Law's Tale, The Physician's Tale, The Monk's Tale, and The Manciple's Tale) against their textual sources, including Ovid's Metamorphoses and Heroides, Boccaccio's Teseida, Virgil's Aeneid, Le Roman de la Rose, and histories by Nicholas Trevet and Guido delle Colonne. Holton provides a picture of Chaucer's habits as a writer, showing that he was consistent in asserting his own techniques against the pressure of his sources and in keeping control over words and their meaning.