[PDF] Chaucers Religious Tales eBook

Author : C. David Benson
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 38,28 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780859913027

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These thirteen essays by distinguished Chaucerians deal with the most neglected genre of the 'Canterbury Tales', the religious tales. Although the prose works are also discussed, the primary focus of the volume is on Chaucer's four poems in rhyme royal: the 'Clerk's Tale', the 'Man of Law's Tale', the 'Second Nun's Tale' and the 'Prioress's Tale'. Almost all of Chaucer's tales are religious in some sense, but these four works deal specifically and deeply with faith and spiritual transcendence. They appeal to qualities, such as pathos, not now in critical fashion, but at the same time they seem extraordinarily contemporary in their special interest in women and feminist issues. The time is appropriate to recognise their importance in Chaucer's canon, for he is a religious poet as surely as he is a poet of comedy and secular love. These essays survey past criticism on the religious tales and offer new approaches.Contributors: C.DAVID BENSON, ELIZABETH ROBINSON, DEREK PEARSALL, BARBARA NOLAN, ROBERT WORTH FRANK, LINDA GEORGIANNA, CHARLOTTE C. MORSEA.S.G. EDWARDS, CAROLYN COLETTE, ELIZABETH D. KIRK, GEORGE R. KEISER, JANE COWGILL.

Author : Helen Phillips
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 46,88 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1843842297

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Chaucer's writings (the 'Canterbury Tales', lyrics and dream poems and Troilus) are here freshly examined in relation to the religions, the religious traditions and the religious controversies of his era.

Author : Nancy Bradley Warren
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,46 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Religion and literature
ISBN : 9780268105822

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This book situates Chaucer and the Chaucerian tradition in an international textual environment of religious controversy spanning four centuries.

Author : Elizabeth Scala
Publisher :
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 10,13 MB
Release : 2016-01-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780814251997

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Chaucer's Canterbury Tales is a discourse of desire. Beyond the many pilgrims' stories taking desire as their topic, Elizabeth Scala argues that desire operates in structurally significant ways found in the signifying chains that link the tales to each other. Desire in the Canterbury Tales coordinates the compulsions of desire with the act of misreading to define the driving force of Chaucer's story collection. With Chaucer's competitive pilgrimage as an important point of departure, this study examines the collection's manner of generating stories out of division, difference, and contestation. It argues that Chaucer's tales are produced as misreadings and misrecognitions of each other. Looking to the main predicate of the General Prologue's famous opening sentence ("longen") as well as the thematic concerns of a number of tale-tellers, and working with a theoretical model that exposes language as the product of such longing, Scala posits desire as the very subject of the Canterbury Tales and misrecognition as its productive effect. In chapters focusing on both the well-discussed tales of fragment 1 and the marriage group as well as the more recalcitrant religious stories, Desire in the Canterbury Tales offers a comprehensive means of accounting for Chaucer's poem.

Author : Roger Ellis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 15,7 MB
Release : 2019-09-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1000681297

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Originally published in 1986. This study asks ‘What problems confront the narrator of a religious story?’ and ‘What different solutions to those problems are offered by the religious narratives of The Canterbury Tales?’ The introduction explains the grounds for inclusion of the tales here studied then examined in three sections. The first includes the tales of the Clerk, Prioress and Second Nun, and Chaucer’s Melibee, and explores the parallels between the production of a religious narrative and that of a faithful translation. The second considers how the tales of the Man of Law, Monk and Physician, though formally similar to those in the first section, subvert the offered parallel by their creation of narrators who actively mediate them to their audience, and who seem as concerned with the projection of their own personalities as with the transmission of the given story. The final section shows how the tales of the Pardoner and Nun’s Priest highlight the dilemma and provide distinctive resolutions. The whole study aims to explore the dynamic relationships that exist between two contrasting positions: an artist’s commitment to the authority of a given story and his need to assert himself over it.

Author : Frank Grady
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 15,87 MB
Release : 2020-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1107181003

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A lively and accessible introduction to the variety, depth, and wonder of Chaucer's best-known poem.

Author : Ian Johnson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 36,82 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.