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Author : Larry Dean Benson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (42 download)
Download or read book The Literary Context of Chaucer's Fabliaux written by Larry Dean Benson and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Erik Hertog
Publisher : Leuven University Press
ISBN 13 : 9789061864622
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (646 download)
Download or read book Chaucer's Fabliaux as Analogues written by Erik Hertog and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The presence of so many fabliaux in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales is intriguing in its own right, given the fact that there are no real fabliaux in Middle English befor Chaucer. But these stories are also interesting as instances of a concept and practice thas has received little critical attention so far, namely 'analogy', the writing and, above all, recognition of 'similar' stories. How to account for the literary practice that enables us to perceive stories as similar, c.q. analogous? This original study sets out to explore this phenomenon, first tentatively vis-?)vis other terms and practices (Translation, Borrowing, Adaptation, Version) and then, in the major part of the book, in a pragmatic-structuralist analysis of four salient components of narrative--Plot, Character, Thematics, and Genre--each illustrated with examples taken from Chaucer's fabliaux and their analogues in various European languages.In each of the four chapters the key-issue is Categorisation and Hertog traces its evolution and usefulness a a concept from Wittgenstein's family resemblances' and Zadeh's 'fuzzy set theory' to E. Rosch's Prototype theory. The conclusion draws attention to two aspects which set Chaucer's fabliaux very much apart from the other analogues: their contextuality within the polylogue of the Canterbury Tales, and secondly, their explicit intertextuality which invites us to look anew at the assumptions of traditional source-criticism. The study ends with some theoretical reflections on analogy and an attempt at definition.The book will interest not only Chaucerians and other medievalists but also scholars in literarry theory and interpretation.
Author : Mary Flowers Braswell
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838639177
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Chaucer's "legal Fiction" written by Mary Flowers Braswell and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries, Chaucer has been associated with law. This study, however, is concerned less with the overt in Chaucer that concerns law than with the concealed and private: a specific body of materials -- records from the medieval English law courts that the poet evidently read, studied, discussed with colleagues, and then threaded into his texts. This book examines the effects of those documents on the so-called "minor" poems, The House of Fame, and The Canterbury Tales.
Author : M. Andrew
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230273963
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)
Download or read book The Palgrave Literary Dictionary of Chaucer written by M. Andrew and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-18 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study aims to provide readers with a convenient source of reliable, scholarly, and accessible information on Chaucer's work, life, and times. Topics include Chaucer's works, major fictional characters, social, and political contexts, writers who influenced Chaucer or influenced by him, people and places of significance in Chaucer's life.
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 : Peter Brown
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 047069274X
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (76 download)
Download or read book A Companion to Chaucer written by Peter Brown and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed as both a contribution to original research and as a stimulating and accessible text, this volume is a helpful, reliable, responsive and adaptable resource for students of Chaucer at all levels.
Author : D. S. Brewer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317895363
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book A New Introduction to Chaucer written by D. S. Brewer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new introduction to Chaucer has been radically rewritten since the previous edition which was published in 1984. The book is a controversial and modern restatement of some of the traditional views on Chaucer, and seeks to present a rounded introduction to his life, cultural setting and works. Professor Brewer takes into account recent literary criticism, both challenging new ideas and using them in his analysis of Chaucer's work. Above all, there is a strong emphasis on leading the reader to understand and enjoy the poetry and prose, and to try to understand Chaucer's values which are often seen to oppose modern principles. A New Introduction to Chaucer is the result of Derek Brewer's distinguished career spanning fifty years of research and study of Chaucer and contemporary scholarship and criticism. New interpretations of many of the poems are presented including a detailed account of the Book of the Duchess. Derek Brewer's fresh and narrative style of writing will appeal to all who are interested in Chaucer, from sixth-form and undergraduate students who are new to Chaucer's work through to more advanced students and lecturers.
Author : John Hines
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Fabliau in English written by John Hines and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 1993 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fabliaux constitute one of the most entertaining genres in medieval literature. Most students of the period associate these comic and often licentious tales with Chaucer and Boccaccio, but they form a larger body of literature well worth study in its own right.
Author : Roy Pearcy
Publisher : DS Brewer
ISBN 13 : 9781843841227
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (412 download)
Download or read book Logic and Humour in the Fabliaux written by Roy Pearcy and published by DS Brewer. This book was released on 2007 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A theoretically defensible inventory of the fabliaux based on a new structural definition. Joseph Bédier's 1893 definition of the fabliaux as 'funny stories in verse' is still widely accepted as the best brief and general description for a heterogeneous collection of texts. But the heterogeneity creates difficulties and at the periphery of the canon all three of the criteria included in Bédier's definition are open to question. The inventory proposed in the current study is based on a new structural definition, a conjointure, akin to that of romance, combining a logical episteme with a rhetorical narreme. The episteme features a contradictory taken from Boolean algebra, and assumes four different forms, depending on whether ambiguity resulting from the contradictory is understood by neither, by both, or by either the sender or the receiver of a message, In the first two instances, a character foreign to the episteme intervenes to resolve confusion in the narreme, or appears as the victim of the sophistical assumption of a contrary-to-fact reality; in the latter instances the sender or the receiver of the message in the episteme triumphs in the narreme. The resulting inventory, including and augmenting the texts admitted by Per Nykrog and discarding numerous stories already challenged for authenticity, is theoretically defensible to a degree not previously achieved. ROY PEARCY is anHonorary Research Fellow of the University of London.
Author : H. Crocker
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230604927
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Chaucer’s Visions of Manhood written by H. Crocker and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-06-25 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that Chaucer challenges his culture's mounting obsession with vision, constructing a model of 'manhed' that blurs the distinction between agency and passivity in a traditional gender binary.
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004490205
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book This Noble Craft... written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : G. A. Rudd
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134632762
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)
Download or read book Geoffrey Chaucer written by G. A. Rudd and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-07-05 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So many questions surround the key figures in the English literary canon, but most books focus on one aspect of an author's life or work, or limit themselves to a single critical approach. Geoffrey Chaucer offers: *basic information on an author's life, contexts and works *the major critical issues surrounding the author's works, from the time they were written to the present *explanations of the full range of different critical views and interpretations * guides to further reading in each area.
Author : Nicole Nolan Sidhu
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812292685
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Indecent Exposure written by Nicole Nolan Sidhu and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Men and women struggling for control of marriage and sexuality; narratives that focus on trickery, theft, and adultery; descriptions of sexual activities and body parts, the mention of which is prohibited in polite society: such are the elements that constitute what Nicole Nolan Sidhu calls a medieval discourse of obscene comedy, in which a particular way of thinking about men, women, and household organization crosses genres, forms, and languages. Inviting its audiences to laugh at violations of what is good, decent, and seemly, obscene comedy manifests a semiotic instability that at once supports established hierarchies and delights in overturning them. In Indecent Exposure, Sidhu explores the varied functions of obscene comedy in the literary and visual culture of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century England. In chapters that examine Chaucer's Reeve's Tale and Legend of Good Women; Langland's Piers Plowman; Lydgate's Mumming at Hertford, Troy Book, and Fall of Princes; the Book of Margery Kempe, the Wakefield "Second Shepherds' Play"; the Towneley "Noah"; and other works of drama, Sidhu proposes that Middle English writers use obscene comedy in predictable and unpredictable contexts to grapple with the disturbances that English society experienced in the century and a half following the Black Death. For Sidhu, obscene comedy emerges as a discourse through which writers could address not only issues of gender, sexuality, and marriage but also concerns as varied as the conflicts between Christian doctrine and lived experience, the exercise of free will, the social consequences of violence, and the nature of good government.
Author : Piero Boitani
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107494648
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (74 download)
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.
Author : David Biggs
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802008749
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (87 download)
Download or read book Chaucer's Miller's, Reeve's, and Cook's Tales written by David Biggs and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An annotated bibliography describing editing and critical works on three of Chaucer's tales. The authors make extensive use of the standard bibliographies of English literature, medieval studies, and Chaucerian studies.
Author : Josepha Sherman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317459377
Total Pages : 1450 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)
Download or read book Storytelling written by Josepha Sherman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 1450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Storytelling is an ancient practice known in all civilizations throughout history. Characters, tales, techniques, oral traditions, motifs, and tale types transcend individual cultures - elements and names change, but the stories are remarkably similar with each rendition, highlighting the values and concerns of the host culture. Examining the stories and the oral traditions associated with different cultures offers a unique view of practices and traditions."Storytelling: An Encyclopedia of Mythology and Folklore" brings past and present cultures of the world to life through their stories, oral traditions, and performance styles. It combines folklore and mythology, traditional arts, history, literature, and festivals to present an overview of world cultures through their liveliest and most fascinating mode of expression. This appealing resource includes specific storytelling techniques as well as retellings of stories from various cultures and traditions.
Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393655121
Total Pages : 758 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (936 download)
Download or read book The Canterbury Tales: Seventeen Tales and the General Prologue (Third International Student Edition) (Norton Critical Editions) written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2018-06 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This book has been more helpful to the students—both the better ones and the lesser ones—than any other book I have ever used in any of my classes in my more than a quarter century of university teaching.” —RICHARD L. KIRKWOOD, University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire This Norton Critical Edition includes: • The medieval masterpiece’s most popular tales, including—new to the Third Edition—The Man of Law’s Prologue and Tale and The Second Nun’s Prologue and Tale. • Extensive marginal glosses, explanatory footnotes, a preface, and a guide to Chaucer’s language by V. A. Kolve and Glending Olson. • Sources and analogues arranged by tale. • Twelve critical essays, seven of them new to the Third Edition. • A Chronology, a Short Glossary, and a Selected Bibliography. About the Series Read by more than 12 million students over fifty-five years, Norton Critical Editions set the standard for apparatus that is right for undergraduate readers. The three-part format—annotated text, contexts, and criticism—helps students to better understand, analyze, and appreciate the literature, while opening a wide range of teaching possibilities for instructors. Whether in print or in digital format, Norton Critical Editions provide all the resources students need.
