Reading Chaucer

Reading Chaucer
Title Reading Chaucer PDF eBook
Author Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher
Pages 188
Release 2006
Genre Canterbury (England)
ISBN 9780393929140

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The Riverside Chaucer

The Riverside Chaucer
Title The Riverside Chaucer PDF eBook
Author Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher American Chemical Society
Pages 1386
Release 2008
Genre Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages
ISBN 0199552096

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A re-editing of F.N. Robinson's second edition of The works of Geoffrey Chaucer published in 1957 by the team of experts at the Riverside Institute who have greatly expanded the introductory material, explanatory notes, textual notes, bibliography and glossary. The result of many years' study. The Riverside Chaucer is the most authentic and exciting edition available of Chaucer's complete works.

The Canterbury Tales

The Canterbury Tales
Title The Canterbury Tales PDF eBook
Author Peter Ackroyd
Publisher Penguin
Pages 367
Release 2009-10-29
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1101155639

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A fresh, modern prose retelling captures the vigorous and bawdy spirit of Chaucer’s classic Renowned critic, historian, and biographer Peter Ackroyd takes on what is arguably the greatest poem in the English language and presents the work in a prose vernacular that makes it accessible to modern readers while preserving the spirit of the original. A mirror for medieval society, Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales concerns a motley group of pilgrims who meet in a London inn on their way to Canterbury and agree to take part in a storytelling competition. Ranging from comedy to tragedy, pious sermon to ribald farce, heroic adventure to passionate romance, the tales serve not only as a summation of the sensibility of the Middle Ages but as a representation of the drama of the human condition. Ackroyd’s contemporary prose emphasizes the humanity of these characters—as well as explicitly rendering the naughty good humor of the writer whose comedy influenced Fielding and Dickens—yet still masterfully evokes the euphonies and harmonies of Chaucer’s verse. This retelling is sure to delight modern readers and bring a new appreciation to those already familiar with the classic tales.

Five Canterbury Tales

Five Canterbury Tales
Title Five Canterbury Tales PDF eBook
Author Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher OXFORD
Pages 0
Release 2009-12-17
Genre Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages
ISBN 9780194247580

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A retelling of five of Chaucer's classic tales in simplified language for new readers. Includes activities to enhance reading comprehension and improve vocabulary.

Reading Chaucer in Time

Reading Chaucer in Time
Title Reading Chaucer in Time PDF eBook
Author Kara Gaston
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 215
Release 2020-02-27
Genre Literary Collections
ISBN 0192594311

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The monograph series Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture showcases the plurilingual and multicultural quality of medieval literature and actively seeks to promote research that not only focuses on the array of subjects medievalists now pursue in literature, theology, and philosophy, in social, political, jurisprudential, and intellectual history, the history of art, and the history of science but also that combines these subjects productively. It offers innovative studies on topics that may include, but are not limited to, manuscript and book history; languages and literatures of the global Middle Ages; race and the post-colonial; the digital humanities, media and performance; music; medicine; the history of affect and the emotions; the literature and practices of devotion; the theory and history of gender and sexuality, ecocriticism and the environment; theories of aesthetics; medievalism. Reading for form can mean reading for formation. Understanding processes through which a text was created can help us in characterizing its form. But what is involved in bringing a diachronic process to bear upon a synchronic work? When does literary formation begin and end? When does form happen? These questions emerge with urgency in the interactions between English poet Geoffrey Chaucer and Italian trecento authors Dante Alighieri, Giovanni Boccaccio, and Francis Petrarch. In fourteenth-century Italy, new ways were emerging of configuring the relation between author and reader. Previously, medieval reading was often oriented around the significance of the text to the individual reader. In Italy, however, reading was beginning to be understood as a way of getting back to a work's initial formation. This book tracks how concepts of reading developed within Italian texts, including Dante's Vita nova, Boccaccio's Filostrato and Teseida, and Petrarch's Seniles, impress themselves upon Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde and Canterbury Tales. It argues that Chaucer's poetry reveals the implications of reading for formation: above all, that it both depends upon and effaces the historical perspective and temporal experience of the individual reader. Problems raised within Chaucer's poetry thus inform this book's broader methodological argument: that there is no one moment at which the formation of Chaucer's poetry ends; rather its form emerges in and through process of reading within time.

A Student Guide to Chaucer's Middle English

A Student Guide to Chaucer's Middle English
Title A Student Guide to Chaucer's Middle English PDF eBook
Author Peter G. Beidler
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2011-05
Genre LITERARY CRITICISM
ISBN 9781603811026

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"A direct, clear, and user-friendly introduction to the sound of Chaucer's language, as well as to aspects of Chaucer's vocabulary and principal metrical form."--Back cover.

Reading Chaucer After Auschwitz

Reading Chaucer After Auschwitz
Title Reading Chaucer After Auschwitz PDF eBook
Author William McClellan
Publisher Springer
Pages 129
Release 2016-11-04
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1137548797

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Drawing on the work of Holocaust writer Primo Levi and political philosopher Giorgio Agamben McClellan introduces a critical turn in our reading of Chaucer. He argues that the unprecedented event of the Holocaust, which witnessed the total degradation and extermination of human beings, irrevocably changes how we read literature from the past. McClellan gives a thoroughgoing reading of the Man of Law’s Tale, widely regarded as one of Chaucer’s most difficult tales, interpreting it as a meditation on the horrors of sovereign power. He shows how Chaucer, through the figuration of Custance, dramatically depicts the destructive effects of power on the human subject. McClellan’s intervention, which he calls “reading-history-as-ethical-meditation,” places reception history in the context of a reception ethics and holds the promise of changing the way we read traditional texts.