Chaucer's Dante
Title | Chaucer's Dante PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Neuse |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 308 |
Release | 2023-11-10 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0520348745 |
Richard Neuse here explores the relationship between two great medieval epics, Dante's Divine Comedy and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. He argues that Dante's attraction for Chaucer lay not so much in the spiritual dimension of the Divine Comedy as in the human. Borrowing Bertolt Brecht's phrase "epic theater," Neuse underscores the interest of both poets in presenting, as on a stage, flesh and blood characters in which readers would recognize the authors as well as themselves. As spiritual autobiography, both poems challenge the traditional medieval mode of allegory, with its tendency to separate body and soul, matter and spirit. Thus Neuse demonstrates that Chaucer and Dante embody a humanism not generally attributed to the fourteenth century. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1991.
Chaucer's Dante
Title | Chaucer's Dante PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Neuse |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 308 |
Release | 2022-09-23 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0520373820 |
Richard Neuse here explores the relationship between two great medieval epics, Dante's Divine Comedy and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. He argues that Dante's attraction for Chaucer lay not so much in the spiritual dimension of the Divine Comedy as in the human. Borrowing Bertolt Brecht's phrase "epic theater," Neuse underscores the interest of both poets in presenting, as on a stage, flesh and blood characters in which readers would recognize the authors as well as themselves. As spiritual autobiography, both poems challenge the traditional medieval mode of allegory, with its tendency to separate body and soul, matter and spirit. Thus Neuse demonstrates that Chaucer and Dante embody a humanism not generally attributed to the fourteenth century. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1991.
The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer PDF eBook |
Author | Piero Boitani |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 338 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780521894678 |
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Language and the Declining World in Chaucer, Dante, and Jean de Meun
Title | Language and the Declining World in Chaucer, Dante, and Jean de Meun PDF eBook |
Author | John M. Fyler |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 500 |
Release | 2007-07-16 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1107321107 |
Medieval commentaries on the origin and history of language used biblical history, from Creation to the Tower of Babel, as their starting-point, and described the progressive impairment of an originally perfect language. Biblical and classical sources raised questions for both medieval poets and commentators about the nature of language, its participation in the Fall, and its possible redemption. John M. Fyler focuses on how three major poets - Chaucer, Dante, and Jean de Meun - participated in these debates about language. He offers fresh analyses of how the history of language is described and debated in the Divine Comedy, the Canterbury Tales and the Roman de la Rose. While Dante follows the Augustinian idea of the Fall and subsequent redemption of language, Jean de Meun and Chaucer are skeptical about the possibilities for linguistic redemption and resign themselves, at least half-comically, to the linguistic implications of the Fall and the declining world.
Chaucer and the Poets
Title | Chaucer and the Poets PDF eBook |
Author | Winthrop Wetherbee |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Pages | 290 |
Release | 2016-11-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1501707094 |
In this sensitive reading of Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde, Winthrop Wetherbee redefines the nature of Chaucer’s poetic vision. Using as a starting point Chaucer’s profound admiration for the achievement of Dante and the classical poets, Wetherbee sees the Troilus as much more than a courtly treatment of an event in ancient history—it is, he asserts, a major statement about the poetic tradition from which it emerges. Wetherbee demonstrates the evolution of the poet-narrator of the Troilus, who begins as a poet of romance, bound by the characters’ limited worldview, but who in the end becomes a poet capable of realizing the tragic and ultimately the spiritual implications of his story.
Chaucer Reads “The Divine Comedy”
Title | Chaucer Reads “The Divine Comedy” PDF eBook |
Author | Karla Taylor |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780804715447 |
A Stanford University Press classic.
Chaucer's Indebtedness to Dante's Divine Comedy
Title | Chaucer's Indebtedness to Dante's Divine Comedy PDF eBook |
Author | Ruth Mary Bothne |
Publisher | |
Pages | 170 |
Release | 1926 |
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