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Feminizing Chaucer

Author : Jill Mann
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 0859916138
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (599 download)

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Download or read book Feminizing Chaucer written by Jill Mann and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2002 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigation of Chaucer's thinking about women, assessed in the light of developments in feminist criticism. Women are a major subject of Chaucer's writings, and their place in his work has attracted much recent critical attention. Feminizing Chaucer investigates Chaucer's thinking about women, and re-assesses it in the light of developments in feminist criticism. It explores Chaucer's handling of gender issues, of power roles, of misogynist stereotypes and the writer's responsibility for perpetuating them, and the complex meshing of activity and passivityin human experience. Mann argues that the traditionally 'female' virtues of patience and pity are central to Chaucer's moral ethos, and that this necessitates a reformulation of ideal masculinity. First published [as Geoffrey Chaucer] in the series 'Feminist Readings', this new edition includes a new chapter, 'Wife-Swapping in Medieval Literature'. The references and bibliography have been updated, and a new preface surveys publications in the field over the last decade. JILL MANN is currently Notre Dame Professor of English, University of Notre Dame.

The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer

Author : Piero Boitani
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521894678
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (946 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer written by Piero Boitani and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents

Female Desire in Chaucer's Legend of Good Women and Middle English Romance

Author : Lucy M. Allen-Goss
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1843845709
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Female Desire in Chaucer's Legend of Good Women and Middle English Romance written by Lucy M. Allen-Goss and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2020 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of female same-sex desire in Chaucer and medieval romance.

Drama, Narrative and Poetry in the Canterbury Tales

Author : Wendy Harding
Publisher : Presses Univ. du Mirail
ISBN 13 : 9782858167050
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (67 download)

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Book Synopsis Drama, Narrative and Poetry in the Canterbury Tales by : Wendy Harding

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:

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.

The Reception of Chaucer's Shorter Poems, 1400-1450

Author : Kara A. Doyle
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1843845903
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book The Reception of Chaucer's Shorter Poems, 1400-1450 written by Kara A. Doyle and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2021 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First full-length study of what the manuscript contexts can reveal about early reactions to Chaucer, and in particular his treatment of women.

Life in Words

Author : Jill Mann
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 144261742X
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Life in Words written by Jill Mann and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume collects fifteen landmark essays published over the last three decades by the distinguished medievalist Jill Mann. Bringing together her essays on Chaucer, the Gawain-poet, and Malory, the collection foregrounds the common interest in the semantic implications of key vocabulary such as “authority,” “adventure,” and “price” that links them together. Mann, one of the finest critics of Middle English literature in her generation, uses the concepts suggested by the language of medieval literature itself as a way into the masterpieces of Middle English, including The Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and the Morte Darthur. An extended introduction by Mark Rasmussen brings out the nature of the themes that run through the collection, analyses the critical methods in play, and assesses their significance in the context of Middle English studies over the last thirty years.

Shame and Guilt in Chaucer

Author : Anne McTaggart
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137039523
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Shame and Guilt in Chaucer written by Anne McTaggart and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-09-14 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the representation of emotions as psychological concepts and cultural constructs in Geoffrey Chaucer's narrative poetry. McTaggart argues that Chaucer's main works including The Canterbury Tales are united thematically in their positive view of guilt and in their anxiety about the desire for sacrifice and vengeance that shame can provoke.

Chaucer

Author : Marion Turner
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691210152
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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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 Yale Companion to Chaucer

Author : Seth Lerer
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300109290
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book The Yale Companion to Chaucer written by Seth Lerer and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays on Chaucer's poetry, this guide provides up-to-date information on the history and textual contexts of Chaucer's work, on the ranges of critical interpretation, and on the poet's place in English and European literary history.

The Critics and the Prioress

Author : Hannah Johnson
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472122819
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book The Critics and the Prioress written by Hannah Johnson and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2017-04-19 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all the Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer’s Prioress’s Tale, in which a young schoolboy is murdered by Jews for singing a song in praise of the Virgin Mary, poses a problem to contemporary readers because of the antisemitism of the story it tells. Both the Tale’s antisemitism and its “Chaucerianism”—its fitness or aptness as part of the Chaucerian canon—are significant topics of reflection for modern readers, who worry about the Tale’s ethical implications as well as Chaucer’s own implications. Over the past fifty years, scholars have asked: Is the antisemitism in the tale that of the Prioress? Or of Chaucer the pilgrim? Or of Chaucer the author? Or, indeed, whether one ought to discuss antisemitism in the Prioress’s Tale at all, considering the potential anachronism of expecting medieval texts to conform to contemporary ideologies. The Critics and the Prioress responds to a critical stalemate between the demands of ethics and the entailments of methodology. The book addresses key moments in criticism of the Prioress’s Tale—particularly those that stage an encounter between historicism and ethics—in order to interrogate these critical impasses while suggesting new modes for future encounters. It is an effort to identify, engage, and reframe some significant—and perennially repeated—arguments staked out in this criticism, such as the roles of gender, aesthetics, source studies, and the appropriate relationship between ethics and historicism. The Critics and the Prioress will be an essential resource for Chaucer scholars researching as well as teaching the Prioress’s Tale. Scholars and students of Middle English literature and medieval culture more generally will also be interested in this book’s rigorous analysis of contemporary scholarly approaches to expressions of antisemitism in Chaucer’s England.

Chaucer's Feminine Subjects

Author : J. Pitcher
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137089725
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Chaucer's Feminine Subjects written by J. Pitcher and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-06-18 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study shows how contemporary theory can serve to clarify structures of identity and economies of desire in medieval texts. Bringing the resources of psychoanalytic and poststructuralist theory to bear on Chaucer's tales about women, this book addresses those registers of the Canterbury project that remain major concerns for recent feminist theory: the specificity of feminine desire, the cultural articulation of gender, the logic of sacrifice as a cultural ideal, the structure of misogyny and domestic violence. This book maps out the ways in which Chaucer's rhetoric is not merely an element of style or an instrument of persuasion but the very matrix for the representation of de-centered subjectivity.

Oxford Guides to Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales

Author : Helen Cooper
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198878796
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Oxford Guides to Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales written by Helen Cooper and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-07-13 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recognised on its first appearance as the most comprehensive single-volume guide to The Canterbury Tales yet produced, this third edition brings the Tales up to date in relation both to recent criticism and to the changing expectations of modern readers. The Guide provide tale-by-tale information on textual variations and sources, together with a readable commentary on thematic issues, structure, style, generic affiliations, and the contribution of each tale to the work as a whole. It concludes with a survey of the many imitations of the tales down to the early seventeenth century. This new edition also takes account of the latest scholarship, theory, and criticism and new interpretations of the tales, including such matters as gender identity, consent, and racial and religious difference. The book is the most comprehensive single-volume guide to the Tales yet produced, bringing together a wide range of disparate material and providing a readable commentary on all aspects of the work. It combines the comprehensive coverage of a reference book with the clarity and coherence of a critical account. Since its first publication in 1989, the Guide has established itself as an indispensable aid for any reader looking to develop their understanding of The Canterbury Tales.

Chaucer and the Fictions of Gender

Author : Elaine Tuttle Hansen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520328205
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Chaucer and the Fictions of Gender written by Elaine Tuttle Hansen and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1992.

Approaches to Teaching Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

Author : Frank Grady
Publisher : Modern Language Association
ISBN 13 : 1603291954
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Approaches to Teaching Chaucer's Canterbury Tales written by Frank Grady and published by Modern Language Association. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales was the subject of the first volume in the Approaches to Teaching series, published in 1980. But in the past thirty years, Chaucer scholarship has evolved dramatically, teaching styles have changed, and new technologies have created extraordinary opportunities for studying Chaucer. This second edition of Approaches to Teaching Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales reflects the wide variety of contexts in which students encounter the poem and the diversity of perspectives and methods instructors bring to it. Perennial topics such as class, medieval marriage, genre, and tale order rub shoulders with considerations of violence, postcoloniality, masculinities, race, and food in the tales. The first section, “Materials,â€ reviews available editions, scholarship, and audiovisual and electronic resources for studying The Canterbury Tales. In the second section, “Approaches,â€ thirty-six essays discuss strategies for teaching Chaucer’s language, for introducing theory in the classroom, for focusing on individual tales, and for using digital resources in the classroom. The multiplicity of approaches reflects the richness of Chaucer’s work and the continuing excitement of each new generation’s encounter with it.

The Canterbury Tales

Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 014193512X
Total Pages : 2607 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book The Canterbury Tales written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2005-04-07 with total page 2607 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the Tabard Inn in Southwark, a jovial group of pilgrims assembles, including an unscrupulous Pardoner, a noble-minded Knight, a ribald Miller, the lusty Wife of Bath, and Chaucer himself. As they set out on their journey towards the shrine of Thomas a Becket in Canterbury, each character agrees to tell a tale. The twenty-four tales that follow are by turns learned, fantastic, pious, melancholy and lewd, and together offer an unrivalled glimpse into the mind and spirit of medieval England.

Chaucer's Neoplatonism

Author : John M. Hill
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498561942
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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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 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chaucer’s Neoplatonism covers his major works and the ways in which he has absorbed a Boethian, essentially rational Neoplatonism. By means of that philosophy he poetically engages issues of truth, falsehood, love, friendship, joy, and community. His widely recognized, capacious humanism arises from that engagement.