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Canterbury Tales (Paperback)
Description Lively, absorbing, often outrageously funny, Chaucers The Canterbury Tales is a work of genius, an undisputed classic that has held a special appeal for each generation of readers. The Canterbury Tales gather twenty-nine of literature's most enduring (and endearing) characters in a vivid group portrait that captures the full spectrum of medieval society, from the exalted Knight to the humble plowman. A graceful modren translation facing each page of the text allows the contemporary reader...
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Chaucer's Canterbury Tales Chaucer, Geoffrey
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Chaucer & The Canterbury Tales DVD. Geoffrey Chaucer was the first major personality in English literature, and his accounts of the medieval world are unmatched by an historian. Part One of this production provides a complete biography of Chaucer, an in-depth look at his language, and critical analysis of such poems as The House of Fame, The Parliament of Fowls, and Troilus and Criseyde. In The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer provides a broad and accurate view of the colors and diversity and details of...
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The procession that crosses Chaucer's pages is as full of life and as richly textured as a medieval tapestry. The Knight, the Miller, the Friar, the Squire, the Prioress, the Wife of Bath, and others who make up the cast of characters -- including Chaucer himself -- are real people, with human emotions and weaknesses. When it is remembered that Chaucer wrote in English at a time when Latin was the standard literary language across western Europe, the magnitude of his achievement is even more remarkable...
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Russell begins with a concise, lucid account of the medieval trivium, synthesizing a variety of sources in an engaging explanation of such potentially dry subjects as grammar and conceptual hierarchies. He then examines four parts of the Canterbury Tales, providing insight into Chaucer's method of presenting information about the pilgrims in the "General Prologue", the role of language in the "Man of Law's Tale", the definition of man in the "Knight's Tale", and the Artes in the "Clerk's Tale". Finally...
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The Prologue to the Reeve's Tale - 4:25. Here the Reeve's Tale begins - 4:37. Among the Cambridge students there were two - 2:20. The Miller smiled at their simplicity - 3:12. Like cattle in the rain, wet through and through - 5:50. Soon after this the wife left of her snoring - 3:00. Yea, hast thou, lecherous rogue? - 3:23. The Prologue to the Nun's Priest's Tale - 3:55. Here begins the Nun's Priest's Tale. So Once it fell, as day began to break - 8:13. 'Madam', quoth he, 'grand merci for...
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Like Charles Lamb's edition of Shakespeare, Hastings's loose prose translation of seven of Chaucer's tales is more faithful to the work's plot than to the poet's language. This is not a prudish retelling (even the bawdy Miller's tale is included here) but the vigor of Chaucer's text is considerably tamed. In the original, the pilgrims possess unique voices, but here the tone is uniformly bookish. The colloquial speech of the storyteller is replaced by formal prose; for example, while Cohen (see review...
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Description The "Canterbury Tales" were originally planned to include over 100 stories, but Chaucer completed only 22. The device of using a pilgrimage as a setting for the telling of tales was not uncommon--medieval pilgrims traditionally told stories to liven up the long trek--but Chaucer's version is infinitely more sophisticated, matching the teller and his tale in a way that greatly enriches the content. This, and the interactions between the pilgrims, give the "Canterbury Tales" the complexity...
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This study shows how contemporary theory can serve to clarify structures of identity and economies of desire in medieval texts. Bringing the resources of psychoanalytic and poststructuralist theory to bear on Chaucer’s tales about women, this book addresses those registers of the Canterbury project that remain major concerns for recent feminist theory: the specificity of feminine desire, the cultural articulation of gender, the logic of sacrifice as a cultural ideal, the structure of misogyny and...
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A concise introduction to the life of Geoffrey Chaucer, the times in which he wrote, and his tremendous contribution to British literature. An excellent resource book for the student and teacher alike.
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The author inspires students to engage with the tales from a variety of perspectives, setting traditional ways of reading them against other newer approaches. Avoiding the tale-by-tale analysis and focus on individual pilgrims common to old-fashioned introductions, he encourages students instead to consider readings which compare and contrast the tales, emphasizing socially constructed analyses.
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The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics)
Translated here into modern English, these tales of a motley crowd of pilgrims drawn from all walks of life-from knight to nun, miller to monk-reveal a picture of English life in the fourteenth century that is as robust as it is representative.
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Like Charles Lamb's edition of Shakespeare, Hastings's loose prose translation of seven of Chaucer's tales is more faithful to the work's plot than to the poet's language. This is not a prudish retelling (even the bawdy Miller's tale is included here) but the vigor of Chaucer's text is considerably tamed. In the original, the pilgrims possess unique voices, but here the tone is uniformly bookish. The colloquial speech of the storyteller is replaced by formal prose; for example, while Cohen (see review...
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Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer - Hardcover - Praise
“ The Canterbury Tales was written . . . during what the Middle Ages would have considered Chaucer’s old age . . . It is a quite astonishing production . . . [He was] free to experiment with narrative in a more audacious way, to challenge orthodoxies old and yet to be formulated, and to explore, exploit, enrich and subvert all the many available kinds of medieval story.” –from the Introduction by Derek Pearsall
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The Canterbury Tales (Maxnotes Literature Guides)
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey ISBN: 0878919945 Pages: 136 Subject: Book Notes Publisher: Research & Education Association Info from Publisher:
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Here are tales told by members from all parts of English society of the 14th century, reflecting on life as they travel the road from Southwark to Canterbury.
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"The rich canvas abounding with Chaucer's colorful figures becomes animated and fast moving as David Wright brings the text into modern translation."--Gerald Konyn, The Bookman
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This is the only complete modern-English translation of Chaucer's 14th-century classic in hard-copy print. And according to CHOICE, "It is difficult to imagine anyone doing a better job." As faithful to the original as a modern-English rendering permits, Ecker & Crook's translation includes the long-neglected prose tales (The Tale of Melibee & The Parson's Tale) in addition to the General Prologue & the 22 rhymed verse tales. Line numbers, corresponding to those found in Robinson, Benson, & other...
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Includes the General Prologue, The Knight's Tale, The Miller's Prologue and Tale and The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale.
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