[PDF] Chaucers Dead Body eBook

Author : Thomas A. Prendergast
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 23,63 MB
Release : 2004-03-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1135887268

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In Chaucer's Dead Body, Thomas Prendergast looks at the material reasons behind Chaucer's transformation into a touchstone for the whole of the Anglophone Middle Ages. This book weaves an intricate argument about the ways that the body, death, and representation come together in the recuperation and reception of Chaucer over the centuries, and proposes a deeply compelling logic that links memorialization and canon formation. Making a persuasive and intriguing case that the status of Chaucer's physical body is an index of the status of Chaucer's work, and furthermore that there continues to be a link between corpse and corpus in all of our assertions of positive and negative literary values from Chaucer's time on, Prendergast organizes his study of Chaucer's literary legacy around Chaucer's tomb - around the history of attempts to restore it, to determine its authenticity, and to establish its exact location.

Author : Thomas Augustine Prendergast
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 11,59 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Authors and readers
ISBN : 9780415966795

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First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Terry Jones
Publisher : Politicos Publishing
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 12,17 MB
Release : 2013-09
Category :
ISBN : 9780413777355

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Geoffrey Chaucer was a spy, a diplomat, and England's finest poet, and yet nothing is known of his death; after 1400, his name simply disappears from the record. Was he the victim of a political murder? In this book, Terry Jones reassesses Chaucer's work and the turbulent times in which he lived.

Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 45,40 MB
Release : 2022-08-10
Category : Poetry
ISBN :

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The Book of the Duchess is a surreal poem that was presumably written as an elegy for Blanche, Duchess of Lancaster's (the wife of Geoffrey Chaucer's patron, the royal Duke of Lancaster, John of Gaunt) death in 1368 or 1369. The poem was written a few years after the event and is widely regarded as flattering to both the Duke and the Duchess. It has 1334 lines and is written in octosyllabic rhyming couplets.

Author : Jerry Ellis
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 33,78 MB
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0307417662

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More than six hundred years ago, the Archbishop of Canterbury was murdered by King Henry II’s knights. Before the Archbishop’s blood dried on the Cathedral floor, the miracles began. The number of pilgrims visiting his shrine in the Middle Ages was so massive that the stone floor wore thin where they knelt to pray. They came seeking healing, penance, or a sign from God. Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, one of the greatest, most enduring works of English literature, is a bigger-than-life drama based on the experience of the medieval pilgrim. Power, politics, friendship, betrayal, martyrdom, miracles, and stories all had a place on the sixty mile path from London to Canterbury, known as the Pilgrim’s Way. Walking to Canterbury is Jerry Ellis’s moving and fascinating account of his own modern pilgrimage along that famous path. Filled with incredible details about medieval life, Ellis’s tale strikingly juxtaposes the contemporary world he passes through on his long hike with the history that peeks out from behind an ancient stone wall or a church. Carrying everything he needs on his back, Ellis stops at pubs and taverns for food and shelter and trades tales with the truly captivating people he meets along the way, just as the pilgrims from the twelfth century would have done. Embarking on a journey that is spiritual and historical, Ellis reveals the wonders of an ancient trek through modern England toward the ultimate goal: enlightenment.

Author : Elizaveta Strakhov
Publisher : Interventions: New Studies Med
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 20,9 MB
Release : 2022
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780814214978

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Employs Chaucer as a lens to argue that Anglo-French translation of formes fixes poetry helped rebuild cultural ties between England and Continental Europe during the Hundred Years' War.