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This documentary with historian and Monty Python alumn Terry Jones examines the life of historical author Geoffrey Chaucer, writer of the Canterbury Tales. Following him from his childhood in 14th century England, the program explores how Chaucer witnessed the Black Plague wipe out a third of Europe's population when he was just a boy, and later became a secret agent during the 100 Years War. Cammila Albertson, Rovi

Pages: 216, Paperback, Palgrave Macmillan

Placing the Canterbury Tales in the context of the crisis in English society in the fourteenth century, this guide examines the social diversity of Chaucer's pilgrims, the stylistic range of their tales and psychological richness of their interaction. It emphasizes the language of the poem, as well as the role of Chaucer in literary tradition, and devotes an entire chapter to the General Prologue widely studied in undergraduate courses. Finally, the volume includes a chronology of the period and...

Pages: 224, Edition: 1st, Hardcover, University Press of Florida

Description This fresh and comprehensive guide to Chaucer’s most famous poem The Canterbury Tales introduces readers to Chaucer’s life and times and reconsiders both the impact and the context of its inception. It carefully details Chaucer’s cultural and literary world, as well as reviewing the publishing history of the Tales and examining some of the issues surrounding the nature of the material production of medieval texts. In addition, it raises matters of ‘Englishness’ and Chaucer’s choice of...

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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...

US$ 18.00 (+ tax) Cambridge University Press; October 2003 138 pages; ISBN 9780511162534 Read online, or download in secure PDF format This guide examines the stylistic range of The Canterbury Tales; emphasis is placed on the language of the poem, the place of Chaucer in subsequent literary tradition, and an entire chapter is devoted to the General Prologue which is widely studied on undergraduate courses. Add to cart Buy it now Give this ebook to a friend Add to wishlist Read an excerpt Send...

" Chaucer and the Canterbury Tales includes a great range of accurate information in its few pages; even more important, Hirsh's writing is clear and welcoming and his learning and critical judgments as undogmatic as they are stimulating. [...] Although always sensitive to what a novice reader might need to know, Hirsh is never condescending. [...] Hirsh involves us in the delight of the material and the questions it raises in such a way that we hardly realize how well we are being instructed......

Customer Reviews for "A Detailed Comparison Of The Eight Manuscripts Of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (1913) (Paperback)" by John Koch (Author)

Sir John had risen some little time ago - 1:52. The monk began to stare upon this wife - 3:46. This monk made answer as I tell you here - 2:59. And afterwards, Sir John with gravity - 2:46. On the first Sunday after he was gone - 3:22. His wife was ready at the gate to greet him - 3:43. The Prioress's Tale - 1:41. The Prologue of the Prioress's Tale - 2:07. Here begins the Prioress's Tale - 3:10. This child passed through the Jewish colony - 3:44. The Christians on the street, that came...

“. . . holds much more in store for the reader than its title can possibly indicate. It is, for example, the place to go for those who wish to understand how King Alfred’s prose writings, Boethius’s Consolation of Philosophy, and Augustine’s City of God illuminate Chaucer’s Tale of Melibeus. It is likewise the place to visit for a careful tracing of the literary development that the Germanic wise-woman figure, as both prophet and catalyst of cultural transformation, has undergone. Indeed, this book...

   With careful study, the language of Chaucer in The Canterbury Tales is usually clarified and understood as the beautiful verse narrative it is. There is, however, the common problem that comes when one is unable to comprehend it in Middle English enough to coherently study it. The question has been raised as to whether it might be more useful to study a translated version of the poem so that it can be understood on first reading. The main problem with this idea is that in nearly every translation...

prologue to the wife of bath's tale. . and tell me also, why there was creation. . now sires, i shall proceed to tell my tale. . we love no man that spies or gives us charge. . such words i had always, and brought them forth. . and so it happened on a day in lent. . now i will tell you truly, by st. thomas. . who would believe, who could indeed suppose. . behold the words between the summoner and the friar. . here begins the tale of the wife of bath. . this knight, of whom in...

US$ 32.00 (+ tax) Cambridge University Press; January 2005 303 pages; ISBN 9780511079474 Read online, or download in secure PDF format This innovative study argues that the Canterbury Tales represents Chaucer's most extended meditation on agency, autonomy, and practical reason. Mark Miller uncovers Chaucer's debt to Boethius, Augustine, and other philosophers and shows how Chaucer's literary experiments represent a distinctive philosophical achievement that remains relevant to today's philosophical...

Release Date: 2009-03-31, Rating: NR (Not Rated)

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