[PDF] The Chaucer Tradition eBook

Author : Simon Horobin
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 30,14 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780859917803

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A study of the language of Chaucerian manuscripts, printed editions and Chaucer's 15th century followers. Winner of the 2005 Beatrice White Prize for outstanding scholarly work in the field of English literature before 1590 The manuscript copies of Chaucer's works preserve valuable information concerning Chaucer's linguistic practices and the ways in which scribes responded to these. This book draws on recent developments in Middle English dialectology, textual criticism and the application of computers to manuscript studies to assess the evidence Chaucerian manuscripts provide for reconstructing Chaucer's own language and his linguistic environment. This book considershow scribes, editors and Chaucerian poets transmitted and updated Chaucer's language and the implications of this for our understanding of Chaucerian book production and reception, and the processes of linguistic change in the fifteenth century. Winner of the 2005 Beatrice White Prize for outstanding scholarly work in the field of English literature before 1590 SIMON HOROBIN lectures on English language at the University of Glasgow.

Author : Ruth Morse
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 30,68 MB
Release : 2006-11-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521031493

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An important collection of essays which will be of interest to teachers and students of Chaucer.

Author : Benjamin Granade Koonce
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 20,99 MB
Release : 2015-12-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 140087694X

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The author's aim is to "restore to the reading of the poem a background of medieval meanings familiar enough to Chaucer’s contemporary reader but almost lost to the modem." Mr. Koonce believes that fame was a clearly defined Christian concept in the Middle Ages, and his interpretation of Chaucer’s allegory proceeds from that central focus. Originally published in 1966. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Ian Johnson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 24,25 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.

Author : Katharine S. Gittes
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,10 MB
Release : 1991-07-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :

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A clear emphasis on literary antecedents of the Canterbury Tales differentiates this book from most criticism of Chaucer's work. Katharine S. Gittes finds a blending of two frame narrative traditions in the Canterbury Tales, one that originated in India and the Near East and the other in ancient Greece. To illustrate this dual literary tradition, Gittes compares Chaucer's work to a selection of pre-Chaucerian frame narratives that influenced his form directly or indirectly, and other narratives contemporary with Chaucer, that, in their likenesses or differences, illuminate the methodology of the Canterbury Tales. Covering materials written in eight different languages, Framing the Canterbury Tales includes discussion of the Indian-Arabic Panchatantra, Boccaccio's Decameron, Gower's Confessio Amantis, and both Eastern and Western versions of the Book of Sinbad. Gittes addresses the relationship between the framing stories and the tales, the degree of open-endedness in theme and structure, aesthetic principles, didactic elements, the significance of prologues and epilogues, the travel/pilgrimmage motif, the function of the narrator, and the degree of characterization in both Eastern and Western frame narratives. An examination of Eastern and Western elements in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales reveals the existing tension between the two, and the ingenious way Chaucer responds to and makes the most of this tension. Eastern features include the open-endedness, the random ordering of tales, and the mode of narration; Western elements include the dramatic features, the grouping or pairing of tales, the symmetry and the recurring motifs. In examining different cultural outlooks and a variety of different, non-literary disciplines, Gittes expands the field of Chaucer criticism. Her book will interest students and scholars of diverse cultures and literary periods, as well as Chaucer enthusiasts.

Author : John M. Bowers
Publisher :
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 23,98 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN :

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Examines the political, social, and religious factors that contributed to the formation of a literary canon in fourteenth-century England. This book tracks the reputations of Geoffrey Chaucer and William Langland into the fifteenth century, when studies of 14th-century literature became configured in terms of a double, antagonistic dynamic.

Author : Nancy Bradley Warren
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,48 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.