Author: Donna M. KassPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chaucer, Geoffrey
Languages : en
Pages : 95
Book Description
Mythographic Intertextuality in Chaucer's The Prioress's Tale
Author: Donna M. KassPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chaucer, Geoffrey
Languages : en
Pages : 95
Book Description
The Prioress's Tale
Author: Geoffrey ChaucerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780806120454
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
Translation of Chaucer's 'The Prioress' Tale'
Author: Geoffrey ChaucerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The prioress's tale
Author: Chaucer, the Prioress's Tale
Author: Geoffrey ChaucerThe Prioress' Prologue and Tale
Author: Geoffrey ChaucerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521207447
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Chaucer. The Prologue & ... the Prioress's Tale. - The Nun's Priest's Tale. - The Pardoner's Tale
Author: Geoffrey ChaucerSatiric Advice on Women and Marriage
Author: Warren S. SmithPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472026291
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
Advice on sex and marriage in the literature of antiquity and the middle ages typically stressed the negative: from stereotypes of nagging wives and cheating husbands to nightmarish visions of women empowered through marriage. Satiric Advice on Women and Marriage brings together the leading scholars of this fascinating body of literature. Their essays examine a variety of ancient and early medieval writers' cautionary and often eccentric marital satire beginning with Plautus in the third century B.C.E. through Chaucer (the only non-Latin author studied). The volume demonstrates the continuity in the Latin tradition which taps into the fear of marriage and intimacy shared by ancient ascetics (Lucretius), satirists (Juvenal), comic novelists (Apuleius), and by subsequent Christian writers starting with Tertullian and Jerome, who freely used these ancient sources for their own purposes, including propaganda for recruiting a celibate clergy and the promotion of detachment and asceticism as Christian ideals. Warren S. Smith is Professor of Classical Languages at the University of New Mexico.
The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer
Author: Piero BoitaniPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107494648
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer is an extensively revised version of the first edition, which has become a classic in the field. This new volume responds to the success of the first edition and to recent debates in Chaucer Studies. Important material has been updated, and new contributions have been commissioned to take into account recent trends in literary theory as well as in studies of Chaucer's works. New chapters cover the literary inheritance traceable in his works to French and Italian sources, his style, as well as new approaches to his work. Other topics covered include the social and literary scene in England in Chaucer's time, and comedy, pathos and romance in the Canterbury Tales. The volume now offers a useful chronology, and the bibliography has been entirely updated to provide an indispensable guide for today's student of Chaucer.
New Troy
Author: Sylvia FedericoPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9780816641666
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Examines the political and literary uses of the Trojan legend in the medieval period. England in the late fourteenth century witnessed a large-scale social revolt, a lingering and seemingly hopeless war with France, and fierce factional conflicts in royal politics and London civic government--struggles in which all parties sought to justify their actions by claiming historical precedent. How the Trojan legend figured in these claims--and in competing assertions of authorial legitimacy, nationhood, and rule in the later Middle Ages--is the complex nexus of history, myth, literature, and identity that Sylvia Federico explores in this ambitious book. During the late medieval period, many European political and social groups took great pains to associate themselves with the ancient city; the claim on Troy, Federico asserts, was crucial to nationhood and was always a political act. Her book examines the poetry and prose of several late medieval authors, focusing particularly in how Chaucer's use of the Trojan legend helped to set the terms by which the Ricardian and Lancastrian periods were distinguished, and further helped to establish English literary history as a noble precedent in its own right. Federico's book affords remarkable insight into the workings of the medieval historical imagination.