Author: George Lyman KittredgePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Chaucer's Discussion of Marriage
Author: George Lyman KittredgePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
The Selected Canterbury Tales: A New Verse Translation
Author: Geoffrey ChaucerPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 039334178X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 439
Book Description
Fisher's work is a vivid, lively, and readable translation of the most famous work of England's premier medieval poet. Preserving Chaucer's rhyme and meter and faithfully articulating his poetic voice, Fisher makes Chaucer's tales accessible to a contemporary ear.
Chaucer's Queer Nation
Author: Glenn BurgerPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9781452905327
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Queer theory and postcolonial analysis are brought to bear on Chaucer. Bruger argues that, under the pressure of producing a poetic vision for a new vernacular English audience in the 'Canterbury Tales', Chaucer reimagined late medieval relations between the body and the community.
Satiric 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.
Chaucer and Gender
Author: Michael MasiPublisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9780820469461
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Gender criticism has recently been applied to a wide range of ancient and modern literature; such an approach can reveal many previously unrecognized attitudes among earlier writers. Chaucer has long been recognized as a writer with psychological sensitivities. This book attempts to show that Chaucer has demonstrated his sensitivities on gender issues by recognizing and revising many of the gender stereotypes familiar from his time. It is likely that he was influenced in these ideas by an early feminist writer from France, Christine de Pizan, who complained about the Romance of the Rose as an embodiment of gender stereotyping. Chaucer's later works particularly show an awareness of gender issues that has not been entirely recognized and which is at variance with ideas in the Romance, which he had translated into English during his youthful period.
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.
Chaucer and His Poetry
Author: George Lyman KittredgePublisher:
ISBN: 9780674188525
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Canterbury Tales
Author: Geoffrey ChaucerA Distinction of Stories
Author: Judson Boyce AllenPublisher: Ohio State University Press
ISBN: 0814203108
Category : Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Chaucer, Boccaccio, and the Debate of Love
Author: N. S. ThompsonPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780198186465
Category : Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Although the Decameron and the Canterbury Tales have often been linked, this is the first ever major study of the two most popular medieval collections of framed narratives to examine the texts as a whole. The present study goes well beyond shared general similarities and the inconclusive search for source or analogue material in order to look at the internal dynamics of each text and the surprising similarities that emerge there in terms of theories of literature, authority and authorship and the particular reader response envisaged by their authors.