[PDF] Chaucerian Polity eBook

Author : David Wallace
Publisher :
Page : 555 pages
File Size : 16,8 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780804736619

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David Wallace's study of Chaucer's poetry and prose is invigorated by an engagement with approaches gleaned from modern Marxist historiography, gender theory, and cultural studies. He provides a new articulation of Chaucerian polity through analyses of art, architecture, city and country, household space, guild and mercantile cultures, as well as literary texts. He argues that The Canterbury Tales reveal the influence of Chaucer's Italian journeys and exposure to the great Trecento authors - Dante, Boccaccio, and Petrarch - and the Trecento's most crucial material and ideological conflict, that between the associational polity of Florence and the prototype absolutist state of Lombardy. In drawing these parallels, David Wallace challenges conventional divisions between the medieval and the Renaissance.

Author : Marion Turner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 30,22 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0199207895

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This book offers a completely new reading of Chaucer. While most critics have seen his work as essentially socially optimistic and congenial, Marion Turner argues that Chaucer was profoundly concerned with conflict and social antagonism. Chaucer's texts are examined alongside a wide variety of poetry and historical documents from the period.

Author : Seth Lerer
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 27,92 MB
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780300109290

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A collection of essays on Chaucer's poetry, this guide provides up-to-date information on the history and textual contexts of Chaucer's work, on the ranges of critical interpretation, and on the poet's place in English and European literary history.

Author : Suzanne Conklin Akbari
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
Page : 689 pages
File Size : 35,67 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0199582653

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This handbook addresses Chaucer's poetry in the context of several disciplines, including late medieval philosophy and science, Mediterranean culture, comparative European literature, vernacular theology and popular devotion.

Author : Susan Schibanoff
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 35,46 MB
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0802090354

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Geoffrey Chaucer was arguably fourteenth-century England's greatest poet. In the nineteenth century, readers of Chaucer's early dream poems - the Book of the Duchess, House of Fame, and Parliament of Fowles - began to detect a tripartite model of his artistic development from a French to an Italian, and finally to an English phase. They fleshed out this model with the liberation narrative, the inspiring story of how Chaucer escaped the emasculating French house of bondage to become the generative father of English poetry. Although this division has now largely been dismissed, both the tripartite model and the accompanying liberation narrative persist in Chaucer criticism. In Chaucer's Queer Poetics, Susan Schibanoff interrogates why the tripartite model remains so tenacious even when literary history does not support it. Revealing deeply rooted Francophobic, homophobic, and nationalistic biases, Schibanoff examines the development paradigm and demonstrates that 'liberated Chaucer' depends on antiquated readings of key source texts for the dream trilogy. This study challenges the long held view the Chaucer fled the prison of effete French court verse to become the 'natural' English father poet and charts a new model of Chaucerian poetic development that discovers the emergence of a queer aesthetic in his work.

Author : Piero Boitani
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 24,31 MB
Release : 2004-01-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107494648

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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.

Author : Carolynn Van Dyke
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 31,15 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780838640838

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Chaucer's Agents draws on medieval and modern theories of agency to provide fresh readings of the major Chaucerian texts. Collectively, those readings aim to illuminate Chaucer's responses to two greta problems of agency: the degree to which human beings and forces qualify as agents, and the equal reference of "agent" to initiators and instruments. Each chapter surveys medieval conceptions of the agency in question-- allegorical Realities, intelligent animals, pagan gods, women, and the author--and then follows that kind of agent through representative Chaucerian texts. Readers have long recognized Chaucer's interest in questions of causation; Van Dyke shows that his answers to those questions shape, even constitute, his narratives. --Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.

Author : Glenn Burger
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 29,54 MB
Release :
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781452905327

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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.

Author : Kathryn L. Lynch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 43,77 MB
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1135309523

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This compilation of new essays and essays published over the past fifty years explores Chaucer's experiences with the cultural other, especially Chaucer's relationship to Far Eastern, Islamic, and African sources. While studies of Chaucer's orientalism have heretofore focused on the Squire's Tale , Chaucer's Cultural Geography considers many different Chaucerian works in the context of sexual geographies and colonizing and postcolonizing discourses. It comes at a time when critical methodology is being debated and a variety of approaches to Chacuer studies using modes of analyses normally reserved for later periods, including Said's orientalism theories, Dollimore's transgressive proximity and new French feminism. Moreover, the book fits well into the new emphasis in the Chaucer curriculum on globalism and multiculturalism.

Author : David B. Raybin
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 32,17 MB
Release : 2010-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0271048115

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"Eleven essays that explore how modern scholarship interprets Chaucer's writings"--Provided by publisher.