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Twentieth-Century Chaucer Criticism

Author : Kathy Cawsey
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131700583X
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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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.

Twentieth-Century Chaucer Criticism

Author : Kathy Cawsey
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317005821
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Chaucer

Author : David B. Raybin
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271035673
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (356 download)

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Download or read book Chaucer written by David B. Raybin and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Eleven essays that explore how modern scholarship interprets Chaucer's writings"--Provided by publisher.

Methods in Twentieth-century Chaucer Studies

Author : Hendrik Haiko Dragstra
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Methods in Twentieth-century Chaucer Studies written by Hendrik Haiko Dragstra and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Chaucer at Large

Author : Steve Ellis
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816633760
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (337 download)

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Download or read book Chaucer at Large written by Steve Ellis and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offered as part of the sexcentenary commemoration of Chaucer's death, this very readable study examines Chaucer's impact on the academic and non-academic worlds of the 19th and 20th centuries. Chronological chapters assess Chaucer's impact on the Pre-Raphaelites, on W B Yeats, on Edwardian children's stories and on post-World War One authors. Ellis also considers modern translations and contrasts the relationship between academia's interest in Chaucer and his representation in the media and in historical fiction since the Second World War.

The Critics and the Prioress

Author : Heather Blurton
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 047213034X
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

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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

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.

Chaucer and the Energy of Creation

Author : Edward I. Condren
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813016795
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (167 download)

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Download or read book Chaucer and the Energy of Creation written by Edward I. Condren and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using extant manuscripts as his starting point, Edward Condren argues that the overall design of the Canterbury Tales has a structural parallel with Dante's Commedia. He demonstrates how individual tales support this design and how the design itself confers rich meaning, in some instances investing with new complexity tales that otherwise have been little appreciated.

A Guide to English Literature: From Blake to Byron

Author : Boris Ford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book A Guide to English Literature: From Blake to Byron written by Boris Ford and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Russian couple wanted a child so much that they made one out of snow.

Chaucer

Author : Corinne Saunders
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9780631217121
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Chaucer written by Corinne Saunders and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2001-12-21 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive collection of the major critical views of Chaucer's works over time engages students with the entire critical history. Introduces students to the critical discourse on Chaucer's works from a historical perspective. Encourages students to make links between past and present criticism. Foregrounds those modern approaches that are genuinely productive. Avoids a formulaic approach through lively editorial commentary and judicious selection of texts.

Chaucer's Pardoner and Gender Theory

Author : NA NA
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349618772
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (496 download)

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Download or read book Chaucer's Pardoner and Gender Theory written by NA NA and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chaucer s Pardoner and Gender Theory, the first book-length treatment of the character, examines the Pardoner in Chaucer s Canterbury Tales from the perspective of both medieval and twentieth-century theories of sex, gender, and erotic practice. Sturges argues for a discontinuous, fragmentary reading of this character and his tale that is genuinely both premodern and postmodern. Drawing on theorists ranging from St. Augustine and Alain de Lille to Judith Butler and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Sturges approaches the Pardoner as a representative of the construction of historical - and sexual - identities in a variety of historically specific discourses, and argues that medieval understandings of gender remain sedimented in postmodern discourse.

Twentieth-century Literary Criticism

Author : Gale Research Company
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Twentieth-century Literary Criticism written by Gale Research Company and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpts from criticism of the works of novelists, poets, playwrights, and other creative writers, 1900-1960.

Chaucer's Dead Body

Author : Thomas Augustine Prendergast
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415966795
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (667 download)

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Download or read book Chaucer's Dead Body written by Thomas Augustine Prendergast and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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.

A New Companion to Chaucer

Author : Peter Brown
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118902254
Total Pages : 565 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (189 download)

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Download or read book A New Companion to Chaucer written by Peter Brown and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-06-10 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extensively revised and expanded version of the acclaimed Companion to Chaucer An essential text for both established scholars and those seeking to expand their knowledge of Chaucer studies, A New Companion to Chaucer is an authoritative and up-to-date survey of Chaucer scholarship. Rigorous yet accessible, this book helps readers to identify current debates, recognize historical and literary context, and to understand how particular concepts and theories affect the interpretation of Chaucer’s texts. Chaucer specialists from around the globe offer contributions that range from updates of long-standing scholarship on biography, language, women, and social structures, to original research in new areas such as ideology, the afterlife, patronage, and sexuality. In presenting conflicting perspectives and ideological differences, this stimulating volume encourages readers to explore additional paths of inquiry and engage in lively and informed debate. Each chapter of the Companion, organized by issues and themes, balances textual analysis and cultural context by grounding the reader in existing scholarship. Key issues from specific passages are discussed with an annotated bibliography provided for reference and further reading. Compiled with all students of Chaucer in mind, this important volume: Presents contributions from both established and emerging specialists Explores the circumstances in which Chaucer wrote, such as the political and religious issues of his time Includes numerous close readings of selected poems Provides points of entry to a wide range of approaches to Chaucer’s works Incorporates original research, fresh perspectives, and updated additions to Chaucer scholarship A New Companion to Chaucer is a valuable and enduring resource for scholars, teachers, and students of medieval literature and medieval studies, as well as the general reader interested in interpretations and historical contexts of Chaucer’s writings.

Life and Times of Chaucer

Author : John Gardner
Publisher : Barnes & Noble Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780760712818
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book Life and Times of Chaucer written by John Gardner and published by Barnes & Noble Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

30 Great Myths about Chaucer

Author : Thomas A. Prendergast
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119194075
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (191 download)

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Download or read book 30 Great Myths about Chaucer written by Thomas A. Prendergast and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The facts and fictions that continue to shape our understanding of Chaucer and his place in literary tradition Is Chaucer the father of English literature? The first English poet? Was he a feminist? A political opportunist? A spy? Is Chaucer’s language too difficult for modern readers? 30 Great Myths about Chaucer explores the widely held ideas and opinions about the medieval poet, discussing how ‘myths’ have influenced Chaucer’s reception history and interpretations of his poetry through the centuries. This unique text offers original insights on the character of Chaucer, the nature of his works, the myths that inform our conceptions of Chaucer, and the underlying causes of these myths. Each accessible and engaging chapter focuses on a specific myth, including those surrounding Chaucer’s romantic life, political leanings, religious views, personal struggles, financial challenges, ideas about chivalry, representations of social class, and many others. More than simply correcting inaccurate facts or clarifying common misconceptions about Chaucer, the text delves deeper to address how the myths have shaped the critical interpretation and enduring literary legacy of Chaucer. This innovative volume: Explores how generations of readers continue to shape understanding of Chaucer Highlights the intersection of medievalism and Chaucer studies Helps readers detach myths about Chaucer from critical readings of his works Examines whether myths about Chaucer are based on historical fact or literary interpretation Discusses the history of reading Chaucer in contexts of biography, criticism, and popular culture 30 Great Myths about Chaucer is an indispensable resource for academics, researchers, graduate students, upper-level undergraduates, and general readers with interest in Chaucer and early English and Middle Ages literature.