Chaucer's Poetics and the Modern Reader
Title | Chaucer's Poetics and the Modern Reader PDF eBook |
Author | Robert M. Jordan |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | 192 |
Release | 2023-04-28 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0520331044 |
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1987.
Chaucer's Poetry
Title | Chaucer's Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Geoffrey Chaucer |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | 1190 |
Release | 1975 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN |
Poetry
Title | Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Geoffrey Chaucer |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 1001 |
Release | 2003-01-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780758147288 |
Poetry
Title | Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Geoffrey Chaucer |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 1036 |
Release | 1958 |
Genre | English poetry |
ISBN |
An anthology of Geoffrey Chaucer's poetry that includes commentary.
Writers Reading Writers
Title | Writers Reading Writers PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Hollander |
Publisher | University of Delaware Press |
Total Pages | 264 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Literature |
ISBN | 9780874139761 |
This volume is a collection of intertextual studies on medieval and early modern literature in honor of Robert Hollander by some of his former students. Writers are always also readers, responding to texts that have provoked their thought. The contributors to this volume all participate in its overarching theme: writers reading and responding to the work of other writers. As Hollander's work has focused especially on Dante and Boccaccio, many of the essays treat one of these writers, either as reading or as read by others. Other essays trace intertextual influences in Langland, Shakespeare, or post-Enlightenment writers faced with the loss of Dante's meaningful cosmos.
The Sources of Chaucer's Poetics
Title | The Sources of Chaucer's Poetics PDF eBook |
Author | Amanda Holton |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 180 |
Release | 2016-12-05 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 135188168X |
Focusing on four aspects of Chaucer's poetics-use of narrative, speech, rhetoric, and figurative language-this is the first book-length study to identify Chaucer's distinctive poetic strategies by making specific comparisons with known textual sources. The author provides a combination of analysis of both poetic stylistics and sources, reading The Legend of Good Women and five of The Canterbury Tales (The Knight's Tale, The Man of Law's Tale, The Physician's Tale, The Monk's Tale, and The Manciple's Tale) against their textual sources, including Ovid's Metamorphoses and Heroides, Boccaccio's Teseida, Virgil's Aeneid, Le Roman de la Rose, and histories by Nicholas Trevet and Guido delle Colonne. Holton provides a picture of Chaucer's habits as a writer, showing that he was consistent in asserting his own techniques against the pressure of his sources and in keeping control over words and their meaning.
Chaucer's Sexual Poetics
Title | Chaucer's Sexual Poetics PDF eBook |
Author | Carolyn Dinshaw |
Publisher | Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages | 324 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780299122744 |
Through an analysis of the poems Chaucers wordes Unto Adam, His Owne Scriveyn, Troilus and Criseyde, the Legend of Good Women, the Man of Law's Tale, the Wife of Bath's Tale and its Prologue, the Clerk's Tale, and the Pardoner's Tale, Carolyn Dinshaw offers a provocative argument on medieval sexual constructs and Chaucer's role in shaping them. Operating under the assumption that people read and write certain ways based upon society's demands, Dinshaw examines gender identity and the effects of a patriarchal society. The focal point of Dinshaw's argument is the idea that the literary text can be seen as the female body while any literary activities upon the text are decidedly male. Through a series of six provocative essays, Dinshaw argues that Chaucer was not only aware that gender is a social construction, but that he self-consciously worked to oppose the dominance of masculinity that a patriarchal society places on texts by creating works in which gender identity and hierarchy were more fluid.