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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 : 285 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 285 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 : 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 : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780713902624
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (26 download)
Download or read book The Canterbury Tales written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A group of pilgrims bound for Canterbury Cathedral agree to pass the weary miles by taking turns at storytelling -- thus begins English literature's greatest collection of chivalric romances, bawdy tales, fables, legends, and other stories. The 14th-century pilgrims represent a range of philosophies, professions, and temperaments, and their vivid, realistic characterizations assured the "Tales "an instant and enduring success. Each pilgrim's story can be read separately and appreciated in its own right; all appear here in a lucid translation into modern English verse by J. U. Nicholson.
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 book analyzes how narrative technique developed from the late Middle Ages to the beginning of the eighteenth-century. The contributors address issues such as subjectivity, performance, voice, narrative time, character development and genre, placing their readings of early modern prose texts within the diachronic frame of the overall topic. Individual chapters will treat texts from a variety of genres, offering analyses of individual texts in the context of changes and developments within literary forms. The book in its entirety will cover a period of approximately 350 years, from 1370 to 1720.
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 : 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 : 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 : 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
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 : Katharine S. Gittes
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Framing the Canterbury Tales written by Katharine S. Gittes and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1991-07-30 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A clear emphasis on literary antecedents of the Canterbury Tales differentiates this book from most criticism of Chaucer's work. Katharine S. Gittes finds a blending of two frame narrative traditions in the Canterbury Tales, one that originated in India and the Near East and the other in ancient Greece. To illustrate this dual literary tradition, Gittes compares Chaucer's work to a selection of pre-Chaucerian frame narratives that influenced his form directly or indirectly, and other narratives contemporary with Chaucer, that, in their likenesses or differences, illuminate the methodology of the Canterbury Tales. Covering materials written in eight different languages, Framing the Canterbury Tales includes discussion of the Indian-Arabic Panchatantra, Boccaccio's Decameron, Gower's Confessio Amantis, and both Eastern and Western versions of the Book of Sinbad. Gittes addresses the relationship between the framing stories and the tales, the degree of open-endedness in theme and structure, aesthetic principles, didactic elements, the significance of prologues and epilogues, the travel/pilgrimmage motif, the function of the narrator, and the degree of characterization in both Eastern and Western frame narratives. An examination of Eastern and Western elements in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales reveals the existing tension between the two, and the ingenious way Chaucer responds to and makes the most of this tension. Eastern features include the open-endedness, the random ordering of tales, and the mode of narration; Western elements include the dramatic features, the grouping or pairing of tales, the symmetry and the recurring motifs. In examining different cultural outlooks and a variety of different, non-literary disciplines, Gittes expands the field of Chaucer criticism. Her book will interest students and scholars of diverse cultures and literary periods, as well as Chaucer enthusiasts.
