[PDF] Chaucers Agents eBook

Author : Carolynn Van Dyke
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 36,9 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 : Mark Allen
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 886 pages
File Size : 17,84 MB
Release : 2015-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1784996459

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An extremely thorough, expertly compiled and crisply annotated comprehensive bibliography of Chaucer scholarship between 1997 and 2010

Author : Warren Ginsberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 10,96 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0198748787

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Tellers, Tales, and Translation argues that Chaucer often recast a coordinating idea or set of concerns in the portraits, prologues, tales, and epilogues that make up a 'Canterbury' performance.

Author : Jean E. Jost
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 48,25 MB
Release : 2019-09-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1000681319

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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.

Author : Tison Pugh
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 10,40 MB
Release : 2013-04-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0813048354

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Geoffrey Chaucer is widely considered the father of English literature. This introduction begins with a review of his life and the cultural milieu of fourteenth-century England and then expands into analyses of such major works as The Parliament of Fowls, Troilus and Criseyde, and, of course, the Canterbury Tales, examining them alongside a selection of lesser known verses.

Author : Barry Windeatt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 38,23 MB
Release : 2023-10-31
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ISBN : 0198878818

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This is a comprehensive critical guide to Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde. This new edition has been comprehensively revised in light of the latest scholarly and critical research and with a fully updated bibliography. It includes a full account of Chaucer's imaginative deployment of his sources, and an extended survey of this narrative poem's innovative combination of a range of generic identities. The chapters explain how Chaucer builds thematic significance into his poem's symmetrical structure, and the poem's distinctive variety in style and language, as well as a full commentary on the poem's concerns with love in the contexts of time and mutability and human free will. The Guide explores the poem as an extended debate about the nature and value of love, and how love was conceptualized and experienced as a form of service in quest of compassionate reward, a quasi-religious devotion, and a potentially fatal illness always in hope of cure. The subjectivities of the chief protagonists are fully analysed, as is the poem's problematic ending. Alongside discussions of theme and structure, there is also an account of what the extant manuscripts of Troilus and Criseyde may reveal about the poem's early genesis, and a unique survey of responses to Troilus from its own times to the present day. Barry Windeatt's contribution to the series is a comprehensive single-volume guide to Troilus and Criseyde, bringing together a wide range of material and providing a readable commentary on all aspects of the work. Combining the informative substance of a reference book with the coherence of a critical reading, the Guide has taken its place as the standard introduction to Troilus and Criseyde since its first publication in 1992.

Author : H. Crocker
Publisher : Springer
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 12,38 MB
Release : 2007-06-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0230604927

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This book argues that Chaucer challenges his culture's mounting obsession with vision, constructing a model of 'manhed' that blurs the distinction between agency and passivity in a traditional gender binary.

Author : Monica E. McAlpine
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 12,97 MB
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780802059130

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As the first of the Canterbury Tales, the Knight's Tale has been the subject of a vast body of comment by scholars and lay readers. Monica McAlpine provides access to this material in the first of the Chaucer Bibliographies series to deal with a narrative portion of that author's best-known work.

Author : Anne McTaggart
Publisher : Springer
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 45,49 MB
Release : 2012-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1137039523

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Explores the representation of emotions as psychological concepts and cultural constructs in Geoffrey Chaucer's narrative poetry. McTaggart argues that Chaucer's main works including The Canterbury Tales are united thematically in their positive view of guilt and in their anxiety about the desire for sacrifice and vengeance that shame can provoke.

Author : Ian Johnson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 44,16 MB
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107035643

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Provides a rich and varied reference resource, illuminating the different contexts for Chaucer and his work.