Author: Geoffrey ChaucerPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (continued).
Author: Geoffrey ChaucerThe Clerkes Tale
Author: ChaucerThe Squire's Tale
Author: Geoffrey ChaucerPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806121543
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Part Twelve In the list of scholarly problems it presents, The Squire’s Tale ranks among the highest in The Canterbury Tales. Being incomplete and coming to a halt on a baffling note-was it in fact evolving into a tale of incest?-the tale has undergone the most remarkable shift in critic acceptance of any of Chaucer’s works. This tale of oriental wonder, with its strong base in magic, excited the admiration of Chaucer’s contemporaries and inspired Spenser’s imitative speculation and Milton’s famous desire that the old poet be summoned up to finish his task. It retained for the eighteenth and most of the nineteenth centuries its Gothic fascination, being ranked with the very best of Chaucer’s work. In the second half of the twentieth century, it has been seen from a number of provocative perspectives. Is it a parody of the long Eastern romance? Is it a satire on the values of an aristocracy whose time is past? Is it a rhetorical joke on Chaucer’s part, extending the character of the young Squire into an earnest and somewhat naïve competition with his father, the Knight? The concerns of contemporary scholarship reveal as much about the critical temper of the time as about the work itself. On its own merits The Squire’s Tale compels our attention as an example of Chaucer’s wide-ranging and sometimes inscrutable genius. It provides us with an exotic literary type not otherwise represented in the Tales. It reverberates, in its discussion of ’gentilesse’ with other such discussions in Chaucer’s poetry; it demonstrates, in its use of the love-vision and the complaint, the experimental ways in which Chaucer handles the conventions of French poetry. Perhaps most fascinating is the range of Chaucer’s mind revealed by the casual uses of the science of his time: its knowledge of meteorology, optics, glass and metal work, astrology, and astronomy. The tale offers yet one more example of Chaucer’s genius at work, speaking to us in a voice that is at once suggestive, provocative, and mystifying as always.
Literary Value and Social Identity in the Canterbury Tales
Author: Robert J. Meyer-LeePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108485669
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Introduction: Canterbury tales IV-V and literary value -- Clerk -- Merchant -- Squire -- Franklin.
Sources and Analogues of the Canterbury Tales
Author: Robert M. CorrealePublisher: DS Brewer
ISBN: 9780859918282
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
"This edition ... contains the sources and major analogues of Chaucer's works (some re-edited from manuscripts closer to his own copies) together with discoveries from the past half-century, some of which have not previously appeared together in print. Special features in this new enterprise include a fresh interpretation of Chaucer's sources for the frame of the work, and modern English translations of all non-English texts; chapters on the individual tales contain an updated survey of the present state of scholarship on their source material".--BOOKJACKET.
The Franklin's Prologue and Tale
Author: Geoffrey ChaucerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521466943
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
This well-established series is now being updated with scholarly introductions and attractive new covers. Texts are in the original Middle English throughout, and each has an introduction, detailed notes and a glossary.
The Canterbury Tales
Author: Geoffrey ChaucerJohn Lane's Continuation of Chaucer's 'Squire's Tale'
Author: John LaneThe Scene of the Franklin's Tale Visited
Author: John Strong Perry TatlockPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer