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Author : Wendy Harding
Publisher : Presses Univ. du Mirail
ISBN 13 : 9782858167050
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (67 download)
Download or read book Drama, Narrative and Poetry in the Canterbury Tales written by Wendy Harding and published by Presses Univ. du Mirail. This book was released on 2003 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : C. David Benson
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 9780807816790
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (167 download)
Download or read book Chaucer's Drama of Style written by C. David Benson and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chaucer's Drama of Style: Poetic Variety and Contrast in the Canterbury Tales
Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : BookCaps Study Guides
ISBN 13 : 1621074595
Total Pages : 1400 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (21 download)
Download or read book The Canterbury Tales in Plain and Simple English (Translated) written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by BookCaps Study Guides. This book was released on 2012-12-21 with total page 1400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales" is epic in everyway; it have love, humor, history, religion--it has it all! Who wouldn't want to read this true classic? Unfortunately, reading it and understanding it can be two very different things because the English often just does not make sense to the modern reader. Let BookCaps help with this modern translation. If you have struggled in the past reading old English, then BookCaps can help you out. We all need refreshers every now and then. Whether you are a student trying to cram for that big final, or someone just trying to understand a book more, BookCaps can help. We are a small, but growing company, and are adding titles every month.
Author : R. M. Lumiansky
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477301267
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)
Download or read book Of Sondry Folk written by R. M. Lumiansky and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-08-19 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two hundred years before Shakespeare observed that “all the world’s a stage,” another writer with a flair for drama realized the same fact. This writer was Geoffrey Chaucer. Chaucer, however, presented his dramatic efforts through the medium of short stories, and he is regularly referred to as one of the world’s great storytellers. Yet there are certain questions which arise time and again in the minds of literary scholars. Most of the tales in the Canterbury collection are excellent, but why did Chaucer include such obviously poor recitals as the dull “Melibeus” and the lengthy “Parson’s Tale”? Did he fail to recognize their lack of literary merit? Or were those of his stories which seem so dull to modern readers really popular in fourteenth-century England? Of Sondry Folk is Lumiansky’s answer to such questions. But it is more than that. It is the revelation of Chaucer as dramatic writer. Chaucer, says Lumiansky, did not intend primarily to tell a series of good tales. Instead, he chose tales which suited his purpose of dramatic exposition of character. And the characters, though drawn from many walks of life, are not stereotypes. Their tales not only disclose what the Pilgrims think of themselves but reveal these Pilgrims as they really are—dull, romantic, egotistical, pious, or lustful. Not all readers will agree with Lumiansky’s conclusions in this book. But his scholarship, his clear, uninvolved prose, and his wit and frankness make of it an excellent handbook for the student of the Canterbury Tales. Of Sondry Folk will increase the enjoyment and understanding of Chaucer’s art for any reader, lay or scholarly.
Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Bantam Classics
ISBN 13 : 0553210823
Total Pages : 690 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (532 download)
Download or read book The Canterbury Tales written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by Bantam Classics. This book was released on 1982-02-01 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lively, absorbing, often outrageously funny, Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales is a work of genius, an undisputed classic that has held a special appeal for each generation of readers. The Tales gathers twenty-nine of literature’s most enduring (and endearing) characters in a vivid group portrait that captures the full spectrum of medieval society, from the exalted Knight to the humble Plowman. This new edition includes a comprehensive introduction that summarizes some of the most important historical events and movements that defined the world of Chaucer and his pilgrims; two additional tales (Reeve’s and Shipman’s); introductions for each tale designed to prepare the reader for a better understanding and enjoyment of the tale; newly written and conveniently placed explanatory notes; and a new, more easily understood system for learning to pronounce Chaucerian Middle English.
Author : E. P. Scates
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781516972753
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (727 download)
Download or read book The Canterbury Tales Playscript written by E. P. Scates and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-08-21 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An adaptation of three of Chaucer's classic and most entertaining stories: The Knight's Tale, The Wife of Bath's Tale, and The Pardoner's Tale. This adaptation was first performed in the summer of 2006 as promenade theatre.
Author : Gerd Bayer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136821252
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)
Download or read book Narrative Developments from Chaucer to Defoe written by Gerd Bayer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-02-07 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection analyzes how narrative technique developed from the late Middle Ages to the beginning of the 18th century. Taking Chaucer’s influential Middle English works as the starting point, the original essays in this volume explore diverse aspects of the formation of early modern prose narratives. Essays focus on how a sense of selfness or subjectivity begins to establish itself in various narratives, thus providing a necessary requirement for the individuality that dominates later novels. Other contributors investigate how forms of intertextuality inscribe early modern prose within previous traditions of literary writing. A group of chapters presents the process of genre-making as taking place both within the confines of the texts proper, but also within paratextual features and through the rationale behind cataloguing systems. A final group of essays takes the implicit notion of the growing realism of early modern prose narrative to task by investigating the various social discourses that feature ever more strongly within the social, commercial, or religious dimensions of those texts. The book addresses a wide range of literary figures such as Chaucer, Wroth, Greene, Sidney, Deloney, Pepys, Behn, and Defoe. Written by an international group of scholars, it investigates the transformations of narrative form from medieval times through the Renaissance and the early modern period, and into the eighteenth century.
Author : Greg Walker
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748681035
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)
Download or read book Reading Literature Historically written by Greg Walker and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-28 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study demonstrates the value of historical and cultural analysis alongside traditional literary scholarship for enriching our understanding of plays and poems from the medieval and early Tudor past and of the cultures which produced and received them
Author : Maik Goth
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783631564653
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (646 download)
Download or read book From Chaucer's Pardoner to Shakespeare's Iago written by Maik Goth and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2009 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages the American critic Harold Bloom claims that Shakespeare drew on Chaucer's Pardoner when creating the villain Iago for his Othello. This book turns Bloom's observation of influences within the canon of Western literature into a more complex intermedial analysis of dramatic and literary traditions at the waning of the Middle Ages and the dawn of the Renaissance. The discussion of verbal and non-verbal codes in Chaucer's presentation of the Pardoner and Shakespeare's depiction of Iago sheds light on the various strands of the Vice's development, and shows that Chaucer's pilgrim, who descends obliquely from the stage Vices, stands at the very beginning of the Vice tradition, while Iago is a late development of him, who adapts his role to new dramatic challenges.
Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Canterbury Tales written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Mayer Lumiansky
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780292733206
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (332 download)
Download or read book Of Sondry Folk written by Robert Mayer Lumiansky and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : OXFORD
ISBN 13 : 9780194247580
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (475 download)
Download or read book Five Canterbury Tales written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by OXFORD. This book was released on 2009-12-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A retelling of five of Chaucer's classic tales in simplified language for new readers. Includes activities to enhance reading comprehension and improve vocabulary.
Author : Heather Blurton
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 047213034X
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)
Download or read book The Critics and the Prioress written by Heather Blurton and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2017-04-19 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reinvigorating the scholarly debate surrounding approaches to one of Chaucer's most notorious tales
Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307743535
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)
Download or read book The Canterbury Tales written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-07-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A clear modern prose translation of Chaucer’s masterpiece of Middle English storytelling by the acclaimed poet David Wright. The Canterbury Tales has entertained readers for centuries, with its comic animal fables, moral allegories, miniature epics of courtly love, and rollicking erotic farces that bring fourteenth-century England to life on every page. The gloriously varied stories, narrated by a group of pilgrims on their way to Canterbury, are peopled with saints, sinners, and ordinary mortals in a vivid panorama of the medieval world. This prose translation renders these tales as accessible and irresistible to modern readers as they were to Chaucer’s contemporaries.
Author : Kathy Cawsey
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131700583X
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Twentieth-Century Chaucer Criticism written by Kathy Cawsey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-17 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shifting ideas about Geoffrey Chaucer's audience have produced radically different readings of Chaucer's work over the course of the past century. Kathy Cawsey, in her book on the changing relationship among Chaucer, critics, and theories of audience, draws on Michel Foucault's concept of the 'author-function' to propose the idea of an 'audience function' which shows the ways critics' concepts of audience affect and condition their criticism. Focusing on six trend-setting Chaucerian scholars, Cawsey identifies the assumptions about Chaucer's audience underpinning each critic's work, arguing these ideas best explain the diversity of interpretation in Chaucer criticism. Further, Cawsey suggests few studies of Chaucer's own understanding of audience have been done, in part because Chaucer criticism has been conditioned by scholars' latent suppositions about Chaucer's own audience. In making sense of the confusing and conflicting mass of modern Chaucer criticism, Cawsey also provides insights into the development of twentieth-century literary criticism and theory.
Author : T. Pugh
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230610528
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Sexuality and its Queer Discontents in Middle English Literature written by T. Pugh and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-02-04 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book exposes the ways in which ostensibly normative sexualities depend upon queerness to shore up their claims of privilege. Through readings of such classic texts as The Canterbury Tales and Eger and Grime , Tison Pugh explains how sexual normativity can often be claimed only after queerness has been rejected.
Author : Mark Allen
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1784996459
Total Pages : 886 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (849 download)
Download or read book Annotated Chaucer bibliography written by Mark Allen and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extremely thorough, expertly compiled and crisply annotated comprehensive bibliography of Chaucer scholarship between 1997 and 2010
