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Reason And Imagination In Chaucer The Perle Poet And The Cloud Author
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Book Synopsis Reason and Imagination in Chaucer, the Perle-Poet, and the Cloud-Author by : L. Holley
Download or read book Reason and Imagination in Chaucer, the Perle-Poet, and the Cloud-Author written by L. Holley and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-09-26 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection makes the compelling argument that Chaucer, the Perle -poet, and The Cloud of Unknowing author, exploited analogue and metaphor for marking out the pedagogical gap between science and the imagination. Here, respected contributors add definition to arguments that have our attention and energies in the twenty-first century.
Book Synopsis Reason and Imagination in Chaucer, the Perle-Poet, and the Cloud-Author by : L. Holley
Download or read book Reason and Imagination in Chaucer, the Perle-Poet, and the Cloud-Author written by L. Holley and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-09-26 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection makes the compelling argument that Chaucer, the Perle -poet, and The Cloud of Unknowing author, exploited analogue and metaphor for marking out the pedagogical gap between science and the imagination. Here, respected contributors add definition to arguments that have our attention and energies in the twenty-first century.
Book Synopsis Chaucer and the Child by : Eve Salisbury
Download or read book Chaucer and the Child written by Eve Salisbury and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-01-09 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses portrayals of children in a wide array of Chaucerian works. Situated within a larger discourse on childhood, Ages of Man theories, and debates about the status of the child in the late fourteenth century, Chaucer’s literary children—from infant to adolescent—offer a means by which to hear the voices of youth not prominently treated in social history. The readings in this study urge our attention to literary children, encouraging us to think more thoroughly about the Chaucerian collection from their perspectives. Eve Salisbury argues that the child is neither missing in the late Middle Ages nor in Chaucer’s work, but is,rather, fundamental to the institutions of the time and central to the poet’s concerns.
Book Synopsis Chaucer the Alchemist by : Alexander N. Gabrovsky
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 497 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.
Book Synopsis On the Darkness of Will by : Nicola Masciandaro
Download or read book On the Darkness of Will written by Nicola Masciandaro and published by Mimesis. This book was released on 2019-02-01T00:00:00+01:00 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “For the will desires not to be dark, and this very desire causes the darkness” (Jacob Boehme). Moving through the fundamental question of this paradox, this book offers a constellation of theoretical and critical essays that shed light on the darkness of the will: its obscurity to itself. Through indepth analysis of medieval and modern sources — Augustine, Pseudo-Dionysius, Eriugena, Dante, Meister Eckhart, Chaucer, Nietzsche, Cioran, Meher Baba — this volume interrogates the nature and meaning of the will, along seven modes: spontaneity, potentiality, sorrow, matter, vision, eros, and sacrifice. These multiple lines of inquiry are finally presented to coalesce around one fundamental point of agreement: the will says yes, yet only a will that knows how to say no to itself, entering the silence of its own darkness, will ever be free.
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.
Book Synopsis Medieval English Literature by : Beatrice Fannon
Download or read book Medieval English Literature written by Beatrice Fannon and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together a wide range of original, scholarly essays on key figures and topics in medieval literature by leading academics. The volume examines the major authors such as Chaucer, Langland and the Gawain Poet, and covers key topics in medieval literature, including gender, class, courtly and popular culture, and religion. The volume seeks to provide a fresh and stimulating guide to medieval literature.
Book Synopsis Saint Vincent Ferrer, His World and Life by : Philip Daileader
Download or read book Saint Vincent Ferrer, His World and Life written by Philip Daileader and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries were times of tumultuous change in medieval Europe; they witnessed the Black Death, the Great Papal Schism, heightened fears of the apocalypse, and the elimination of Spain's non-Christian population. Few figures were as widely and as intimately involved in late medieval Europe's struggles as Saint Vincent Ferrer. Perhaps the foremost preacher of his day, Ferrer spent the final two decades of his life traversing Europe, preparing the world for its imminent destruction. Saint Vincent Ferrer (d. 1419), His World and Life reassesses the controversial preacher's motives, methods, and impact, tracing Ferrer's journey from obscure logician to angel of the apocalypse, as he came to be known. At the same time, the book offers new insights into the depth and breadth of late medieval apocalyptic anticipation, and into the processes that ultimately led to the expulsions of Spain's Jews and Muslims.
Book Synopsis Francis of Assisi and His “Canticle of Brother Sun” Reassessed by : B. Moloney
Download or read book Francis of Assisi and His “Canticle of Brother Sun” Reassessed written by B. Moloney and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-10-09 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing the skills of a literary historian to the subject, Brian Moloney considers the genesis of Saint Francis of Assisi's Canticle of Brother Sun to show how it works as a carefully composed work of art. The study examines the saint's life and times, the structure of the poem, the features of its style, and the range of its possible meanings.
Book Synopsis Poet Heroines in Medieval French Narrative by : B. Findley
Download or read book Poet Heroines in Medieval French Narrative written by B. Findley and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-11-29 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining French literature from the medieval period, Findley revises our understanding of medieval literary composition as a largely masculine activity, suggesting instead that writing is seen in these texts as problematically gendered and often feminizing.
Book Synopsis Wales and the Medieval Colonial Imagination by : M. Faletra
Download or read book Wales and the Medieval Colonial Imagination written by M. Faletra and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-24 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on works by some of the major literary figures of the period, Faletra argues that the legendary history of Britain that flourished in medieval chronicles and Arthurian romances traces its origins to twelfth-century Anglo-Norman colonial interest in Wales and the Welsh.
Book Synopsis Shame and Guilt in Chaucer by : Anne McTaggart
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 202 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.
Book Synopsis Chaucer's Feminine Subjects by : J. Pitcher
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 342 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.
Book Synopsis Saint Margaret, Queen of the Scots by : C. Keene
Download or read book Saint Margaret, Queen of the Scots written by C. Keene and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Margaret, saint and 11th-century Queen of the Scots, remains an often-cited yet little-understood historical figure. Keene's analysis of sources in terms of both time and place – including her Life of Saint Margaret , translated for the first time – allows for an informed understanding of the forces that shaped this captivating woman.
Download or read book The King’s Bishops written by E. Crosby and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-09-04 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first detailed comparative study of patronage as an instrument of power in the relations between kings and bishops in England and Normandy after the Conquest. Esteemed medievalist Everett U. Crosby considers new perspectives of medieval state-building and the vexed relations between secular and ecclesiastical authority.
Book Synopsis Chaucer and the Death of the Political Animal by : Jameson S. Workman
Download or read book Chaucer and the Death of the Political Animal written by Jameson S. Workman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-10-21 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing from classical myth, the history of philosophy, literature, film, music, and painting, Workman connects the artistic claims of Chaucer and tests them against similar gestures in the history of philosophy and literature. What results is a radical retake on Chaucer as a philosopher and poet, upending any preconceived views.
Book Synopsis Borges the Unacknowledged Medievalist by : M. Toswell
Download or read book Borges the Unacknowledged Medievalist written by M. Toswell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-07 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Argentinian writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) was many things during his life, but what has gone largely unnoticed is that he was a medievalist, and his interest in Germanic medievalism was pervasive throughout his work. This study will consider the medieval elements in Borges creative work and shed new light on his poetry.
