Author: Carleton BrownPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 350
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A Study of the Miracle of Our Lady Told by Chaucer's Prioress
Author: Carleton BrownThe Prioress's Tale
Author: Geoffrey ChaucerPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806120454
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Part Twenty Of all Chaucer’s tales in the Canterbury Group, The Prioress’s Tale of the Virgin Mary and the murdered child ranks among the most popular and surely the most admired for its artistry. Nonetheless, it has encountered its fair share of somewhat hostile criticism on purely social and cultural grounds, owing in part to a negative evaluation of the Prioress herself (she is seen by some as a shallow person who does not recognize the harmful implications of her utterances), in part to the anti-Semitic cast of the tale. Beverly Boyd’s tough-minded, crisp approach to the tale enables her to present an overview of the great diversity of scholarship in both the sympathetic and hostile approaches to the work; to examine its strongest ingredients, the liturgical borrowings that form a kind of subtext; and thus to offer a balanced view of one of Chaucer’s most carefully crafted poems. Her examination of the sources and analogues, of Miracles of the Virgin, of considerations of style and structure, along with a full treatment of the textual tradition of the Prioress’s Sequence and an unusually full corpus of explanatory notes, taken together, provide a rich and complete edition of the tale, one that will prove to be of exceptional value for the teacher and the scholar.
The Syntax of the Infinitive in Chaucer
Author: John Samuel KenyonPublisher:
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
The Blood Libel Legend
Author: Alan DundesPublisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 0299131149
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Alan Dundes, in this casebook of an anti-Semitic legend, demonstrates the power of folklore to influence thought and history. According to the blood libel legend, Jews murdered Christian infants to obtain blood to make matzah. Dundes has gathered here the work of leading scholars who examine the varied sources and elaborations of the legend. Collectively, their essays constitute a forceful statement against this false accusation. The legend is traced from the murder of William of Norwich in 1144, one of the first reported cases of ritualized murder attributed to Jews, through nineteenth-century Egyptian reports, Spanish examples, Catholic periodicals, modern English instances, and twentieth-century American cases. The essays deal not only with historical cases and surveys of blood libel in different locales, but also with literary renditions of the legend, including the ballad “Sir Hugh, or, the Jew’s Daughter” and Chaucer’s “The Prioress’s Tale.” These case studies provide a comprehensive view of the complex nature of the blood libel legend. The concluding section of the volume includes an analysis of the legend that focuses on Christian misunderstanding of the Jewish feast of Purim and the child abuse component of the legend and that attempts to bring psychoanalytic theory to bear on the content of the blood libel legend. The final essay by Alan Dundes takes a distinctly folkloristic approach, examining the legend as part of the belief system that Christians developed about Jews. This study of the blood libel legend will interest folklorists, scholars of Catholicism and Judaism, and many general readers, for it is both the literature and the history of anti-Semitism.
Publications
Author: Chaucer Society (London, England)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
The Date of Chaucer's Troilus and Other Chaucer Matters
Author: George Lyman KittredgePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Chaucer Society
Author: Lydgate's Siege of Thebes
Author: John LydgatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Seven against Thebes (Greek mythology)
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The Eagle
Author: Doctors of Philosophy and Doctors of Science
Author: Harvard UniversityPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description