The Language of the Chaucer Tradition

The Language of the Chaucer Tradition
Title The Language of the Chaucer Tradition PDF eBook
Author Simon Horobin
Publisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Pages 196
Release 2003
Genre Foreign Language Study
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.

Chaucer Traditions

Chaucer Traditions
Title Chaucer Traditions PDF eBook
Author Ruth Morse
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 296
Release 2006-11-02
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9780521031493

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

Chaucer

Chaucer
Title Chaucer PDF eBook
Author Marion Turner
Publisher Princeton University Press
Pages 626
Release 2020-09-22
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0691210152

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"More than any other canonical English writer, Geoffrey Chaucer lived and worked at the centre of political life--yet his poems are anything but conventional. Edgy, complicated, and often dark, they reflect a conflicted world, and their astonishing diversity and innovative language earned Chaucer renown as the father of English literature. Marion Turner, however, reveals him as a great European writer and thinker. To understand his accomplishment, she reconstructs in unprecedented detail the cosmopolitan world of Chaucer's adventurous life, focusing on the places and spaces that fired his imagination. Uncovering important new information about Chaucer's travels, private life, and the early circulation of his writings, this innovative biography documents a series of vivid episodes, moving from the commercial wharves of London to the frescoed chapels of Florence and the kingdom of Navarre, where Christians, Muslims, and Jews lived side by side. The narrative recounts Chaucer's experiences as a prisoner of war in France, as a father visiting his daughter's nunnery, as a member of a chaotic Parliament, and as a diplomat in Milan, where he encountered the writings of Dante and Boccaccio. At the same time, the book offers a comprehensive exploration of Chaucer's writings, taking the reader to the Troy of Troilus and Criseyde, the gardens of the dream visions, and the peripheries and thresholds of The Canterbury Tales. By exploring the places Chaucer visited, the buildings he inhabited, the books he read, and the art and objects he saw, this landmark biography tells the extraordinary story of how a wine merchant's son became the poet of The Canterbury Tales." -- Publisher's description.

The Making of Chaucer's English

The Making of Chaucer's English
Title The Making of Chaucer's English PDF eBook
Author Christopher Cannon
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 468
Release 1998
Genre Foreign Language Study
ISBN 9780521592741

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A substantial reappraisal of the place of Chaucer's English in the history of English language and literature.

Geoffrey Chaucer in Context

Geoffrey Chaucer in Context
Title Geoffrey Chaucer in Context PDF eBook
Author Ian Johnson
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 499
Release 2019-07-11
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1107035643

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Provides a rich and varied reference resource, illuminating the different contexts for Chaucer and his work.

Chaucer and the French Tradition

Chaucer and the French Tradition
Title Chaucer and the French Tradition PDF eBook
Author Charles Muscatine
Publisher Univ of California Press
Pages 312
Release 1965
Genre Comparative literature
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Chaucer's Language and the Philosophers' Tradition

Chaucer's Language and the Philosophers' Tradition
Title Chaucer's Language and the Philosophers' Tradition PDF eBook
Author J. D. Burnley
Publisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Pages 210
Release 1979
Genre History
ISBN 0859910512

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This book is designed to explore the various kinds of association found in Chaucer's lexical usage, and so to alert the reader to the wider implications of particular words and phrases. By concentrating on the `architecture' of the language, Dr Burnley offers what is in some respects an antidote to the skilled contextual glossing of the editor, whose activities may often obscure important connections. Such connections are vital to the interpretation of any work as a whole, and awareness of them is what distinguishes the scholar from the student who can `translate' Chaucer perfectly adequately without being aware of deeper meanings. Even apparently simple words such as l>cruel, mercy/l>and l>pity/l>can often carry subtle echoes and overtones. Dr Burnley is particularly concerned with words which carry some l>conceptual/l>association, and thus with moral stereotypes inherited from classical and early medieval philosophy, which formed the currency of both secular and religious ideals of conduct in the Middle Ages. His prime concern is to identify the themes and symbols and their characteristic language, and thus to provide a firm basis for critical investigation in Chaucer's literary use of this material.