Author: Janette RichardsonPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3111632458
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Blameth nat me
Author: Janette RichardsonPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3111632458
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Tellers, Tales, and Translation in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
Author: Warren GinsbergPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019106565X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
Two features distinguish the Canterbury Tales from other medieval collections of stories: the interplay among the pilgrims and the manner in which the stories fit their narrators. In his new book, Warren Ginsberg argues that Chaucer often linked tellers and tales by recasting a coordinating idea or set of concerns in each of the blocks of text that make up a 'Canterbury' performance. For the Clerk, the idea is transition, for the Merchant it is revision and reticence, for the Miller it is repetition, for the Franklin it is interruption and elision, for the Wife of Bath it is self-authorship, for the Pardoner it is misdirection and subversion. The parts connect because they translate one another. By expressing the same concept differently, the portraits of the pilgrims in the "General Prologue," the introductions and epilogues to the tales they tell, and the tales themselves become intra-lingual translations that begin to act like metaphors. When brought together by readers, they give the ensemble its inner cohesiveness and reveal what Walter Benjamin called modes of meaning. Chaucer also restaged events across his poem. They too become intra-lingual translations. Together with the linking passages that precede and follow a story, these episodes are the ligaments that stabilize the Tales and underwrite its remarkable elasticity. As much as the conceits that frame the work, the pilgrimage and the tale-telling contest, Chaucer's internal translations guided the construction of his masterpiece and the way his audiences have continued to read it.
Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages: The Canterbury tales of Geoffrey Chaucer
Author: Percy SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
The Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer
Author: Geoffrey ChaucerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Early English Poetry, Ballads and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages
Author: Percy SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
The Canterbury Tales
Author: Geoffrey ChaucerPercy Society ; Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages ; Edited from Original Manuscripts and Scarce Publications
Author: Geoffrey ChaucerPercy Society
Author: Percy SocietyPercy Society. Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368750232
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1847.
Chaucer's Humor
Author: Jean E. JostPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000681319
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Originally published in 1994. Chaucer is considered the first major humorist in English literature and is particularly interesting as he reflects the humor of predecessors and contemporaries as well as defines development for subsequent British humor. This collection presents essays that define the nature of Chaucerian humor, examine Chaucer’s works from a variety of theoretical perspectives, and consider genres of humor within his writing. This is an excellent work of critical discourse that adds important understanding of Chaucer as well as the field of comedy in literature.