Author: Alan Daniel LehmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Narrative Art in Chaucer's Miller's Tale and Pardoner's Tale
Author: Alan Daniel LehmanThe Miller's Prologue and Tale
Author: Geoffrey ChaucerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316615499
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 97
Book Description
Six-hundred-year-old tales with modern relevance. This stunning full-colour edition from the bestselling Cambridge School Chaucer series explores the complete text of The Miller's Prologue and Tale through a wide range of classroom-tested activities and illustrated information, including a map of the Canterbury pilgrimage, a running synopsis of the action, an explanation of unfamiliar words and suggestions for study. Cambridge School Chaucer makes medieval life and language more accessible, helping students appreciate Chaucer's brilliant characters, his wit, sense of irony and love of controversy.
Chaucer and the Invention of Biblical Narrative
Author: Chad SchrockPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350417424
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Demonstrating how Chaucer uses the Bible in The Canterbury Tales as an authoritative literary source and model for his own literary production, this book explores the ways in which the Bible was a key tool for Chaucer's self-definition and innovation as an author. Chad Schrock unravels Chaucer's Tales in the light of topics important to biblical reception in 14th-century England: authority, textuality, interpretation, translation, rephrasing and marginalia. When the Canterbury Tales are summed up in this way, they show the great extent to which Chaucer was drawing upon the Bible as a meta-poetical resource for his own poetry – its fictional tale-tellers and characters, its quotations, allusions and images, its plots, its imaginative engagement with an audience of listeners and readers, and its hidden intentions. Schrock demonstrates that the Bible is a uniquely potent literary source for Chaucer because it combines infinite authority and plenitude with unprecedented freedom of interpretive invention. As a world-making text, the Bible's authority includes the literary as subcategory but surpasses and contextualizes it, which gives Chaucer's deferential biblical invention a different kind of freedom and safety. Within Chaucer's tales, a biblical image is often where a given narrative peaks and its plot comes clear, but a biblical world also and without strain contains his biblical fictioneers and whatever they make from the Bible, whether orthodoxy or heresy, whether sin or worship.
Chaucer and the Art of Storytelling
Author: Leonard Michael KoffPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520339223
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
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 1988.
Canterbury Tales
Author: Geoffrey ChaucerChaucer's Drama of Style
Author: C. David BensonPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 9780807816790
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Chaucer's Drama of Style: Poetic Variety and Contrast in the Canterbury Tales
Chaucer
Author: The Canterbury Tales
Author: Derek PearsallPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135860076
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
This classic and eminently readable work provides a full critical introduction to the complete Canterbury Tales. Essential reading for students of Chaucer.
Chaucerian Fiction
Author: Robert B. BurlinPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400867576
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
By analyzing Chaucer's major poetic works, Robert Burlin succeeds in isolating thematic undercurrents with a bearing on the poet's process of composition. He is thus able to relate individual poems to Chaucer's view of himself as a writer, and to assess the internal evidence for a Chaucerian theory of fiction. Professor Burlin contends that a logic underlies Chaucer's aesthetic assumptions whose imaginative configuration appears both simple and inevitable in the context of his poetic development. The author first explores possible antecedents for the terms "experience" and auctoritee, and shows that this common antinomy provides the basis for dividing the poems into three groups. In the "poetic fictions," Chaucer speculates on the value of poetic activity, on the sources of its affect, and on its validity as a means of apprehension. The "philosophic fictions" concentrate on the epistemological aspect of literary activity. In a final group of poems, termed "psychological fictions," the poet explores the speaker's unspoken motives, as well as his pronounced intentions, in telling a tale. Originally published in 1977. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Drama, Narrative and Poetry in the Canterbury Tales
Author: Wendy HardingPublisher: Presses Univ. du Mirail
ISBN: 9782858167050
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description