All Things Chaucer: A-J
Title | All Things Chaucer: A-J PDF eBook |
Author | Shannon L. Rogers |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 304 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Civilization, Medieval, in literature |
ISBN |
Includes alphabetically arranged entries on the material culture of Chaucer's England and on the customs, rituals, and beliefs of the medieval world.
Annotated Chaucer bibliography
Title | Annotated Chaucer bibliography PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Allen |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | 886 |
Release | 2015-11-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1784996459 |
An extremely thorough, expertly compiled and crisply annotated comprehensive bibliography of Chaucer scholarship between 1997 and 2010
All Things Chaucer: K-Z
Title | All Things Chaucer: K-Z PDF eBook |
Author | Shannon L. Rogers |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 296 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Civilization, Medieval, in literature |
ISBN |
Includes alphabetically arranged entries on the material culture of Chaucer's England and on the customs, rituals, and beliefs of the medieval world.
Engaging with Chaucer
Title | Engaging with Chaucer PDF eBook |
Author | C.W.R.D. Moseley |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | 262 |
Release | 2020-11-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1789204763 |
Why do we still read and discuss Chaucer? The answer may be simple: he is fun, and he challenges our intelligence and questions our certainties. This collected volume represents an homage to a toweringly great poet, as well as an acknowledgement of the intellectual excitement, challenges, and pleasure that readers owe to him as even today, his poems have the capacity to change the way we engage with fundamental questions of knowledge, understanding, and beauty.
Ethics and Exemplary Narrative in Chaucer and Gower
Title | Ethics and Exemplary Narrative in Chaucer and Gower PDF eBook |
Author | John Allan Mitchell |
Publisher | DS Brewer |
Total Pages | 174 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Ethics, Medieval, in literature |
ISBN | 9781843840190 |
Literary Language From Chaucer to Johnson
Title | Literary Language From Chaucer to Johnson PDF eBook |
Author | A J Gilbert |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 228 |
Release | 1979-12-06 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1349033162 |
Chaucer and Pagan Antiquity
Title | Chaucer and Pagan Antiquity PDF eBook |
Author | Alastair J. Minnis |
Publisher | Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
Total Pages | 214 |
Release | 1982 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0859910989 |
Professor Minnis argues that the paganism in Troilus and Criseyde and The Knight's Taleis not simply a backdrop but must be central to our understanding of the texts. Chaucer's two great pagan poems, Troilus and Criseyde and The Knight's Tale, belong to the literary genre known as the `romance of antiquity' (which first appeard in the mid 12th century), in which the ancient pagan world is shown on its own terms, without the blatant Christian bias against paganism characteristic of works like the Chanson de Roland, where the writer is concerned with present-day rather than classical forms of paganism. Chaucer's attitudes to antiquity were influenced, but not determined, by those found in the compilations, commentaries, mythographies and history books which we know that he knew. These sources illuminate the manner in which he transformed Boccaccio. Much modern criticism has concentrated on the medieval veneer of manners and fashions which are ascribed to the heathen protagonists of Troilus and The Knight's Tale; Dr Minnis examines the other side of the coin, Chaucer's historical interest in cultures very different from his own. The paganism in these poems is not mere background and setting, but an essential part of their overall meaning.