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The Cambridge Introduction to Russian Poetry
By: Wachtel, Michael
Published by: Cambridge University Press
This introduction presents the major themes, forms and styles of Russian poetry. Using examples from Russia's greatest poets, Wachtel draws on three centuries of verse, from the beginnings of secular literature in the eighteenth century to the present.
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Price: $21.00
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The Canterbury Tales
By: Ackroyd, Peter
Published by: Viking Adult
A fresh, modern prose retelling captures the vigorous and bawdy spirit of Chaucers 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, Chaucers 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. Ackroyds contemporary prose emphasizes the humanity of these charactersas well as explicitly rendering the naughty good humor of the writer whose comedy influenced Fielding and Dickensyet still masterfully evokes the euphonies and harmonies of Chaucers verse. This retelling is sure to delight modern readers and bring a new appreciation to those already familiar with the classic tales.
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Price: $35.00
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The Canterbury Tales in Modern Verse
By: Chaucer, Geoffrey; Glaser, Joseph
Published by: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
Readers of this witty and fluent new translation of The Canterbury Tales should find themselves turning page after page: by recasting Chaucer's ten-syllable couplets into eight-syllable lines, Joseph Glaser achieves a lighter, more rapid cadence than other translators, a four-beat rhythm well-established in the English poetic tradition up to Chaucer's time. Glaser's shortened lines make compelling reading and mirror the elegance and variety of Chaucer's verse to a degree rarely met by translations that copy Chaucer beat for beat. Moreover, this translation's full, Chaucerian range of dictionfrom earthy to Latinateconveys the great scope of Chaucer's interests and effects.
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Price: $9.95
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Chaucer and the Canterbury Tales
By: Hirsh, John C.
Published by: Wiley-Blackwell
This concise and lively survey introduces students with no prior knowledge to Chaucer, and particularly to The Canterbury Tales. Provides essential facts about Chaucer, as well as a framework for thinking about his poetry. Encourages an engaged reading of The Canterbury Tales. Introduces students to the historical and religious background needed to understand the contexts in which Chaucer wrote.:.; Provides essential facts about Chaucer, as well as a framework for thinking about his poetry.; Encourages an engaged reading of The Canterbury Tales.; Introduces students to the historical and religious background needed to understand the contexts in which Chaucer wrote.
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Price: $82.50
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Chaucer at Large
By: Ellis, Steve
Published by: University of Minnesota Press
In this learned, lively, and wide-ranging book, Steve Ellis conducts us on a tour of the appearances that the greatest writer of Middle English has made throughout English-speaking culture in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Surveying the uses to which Chaucer has been put in modern times, Ellis presents a compelling picture that goes beyond the figure and work of this eminent writer to show us the reach of his imaginative power.An attractively lucid book, highly intelligent, perceptive, wide-ranging, but also modestly written. The story Ellis has to tell is often quite extraordinary, and it has not been told before.-Derek Pearsall, Gurney Professor of English, Emeritus, Harvard University
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Chaucer in Perspective
By: Lester, Geoffrey (ed.)
Published by: Sheffield Academic Press
Norman Blake, Professor of English Language and Linguistics at Sheffield University, is known throughout the world to scholars of mediaeval English Literature. He has published thirty books and 140 articles on subjects as diverse as Old Norse, Old English, Middle English, early printed books, Shakespeare, Historical Linguistics, Stylistics, Grammar, and the cultural context of mediaeval England. He is best known as an authority on Chaucer, Caxton and Shakespeare's language, and is director of The Canterbury Tales Project, based in the University of Sheffield, which is a scheme to put all the manuscript and early printed versions of the poem onto computer and to issue the transcribed texts on CD-ROM. Norman has lectured and taught in many countries, and is a frequent contributor to international conferences. He has been a Teaching Quality Assessor in universities in Britain and elsewhere. He is also well known (among many other things) for his work as member of the Council of the Early English Text Society, Editor for the Index of Middle English Prose, General Editor of Macmillan's Language of Literature series, and as Secretary of the European Society of the Study of English. Friends and colleagues of this approachable and widely respected scholar have come together to mark his 65th birthday in spring 1999 by contributing to this volume. The essays-on Chaucer, Caxton and related aspects of Middle English-are not only a tribute to Norman's work but also a valuable contribution to Middle English studies in their own right.
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Price: $170.00
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Chaucer's Visions of Manhood
By: Crocker, Holly A.
Published by: Palgrave Macmillan
Argues that Chaucer challenges his culture's mounting obsession with vision, constructing a model of 'manhed' that blurs the distinction between agency and passivity in a gender binary.
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Price: $80.00
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Chrétien de Troyes
By: Kelly, Douglas
Published by: Boydell & Brewer
The Supplement builds on the original Chrétien de Troyes Bibliography; together the two volumes constitute the fullest and most complete bibliographical source now available on this major medieval author. The bibliography lists recent Chrétien scholarship under twenty-two topics, with numerous sub-sections under each topic, and cross-references for items that treat more than one of the topics. The scope of modern Chrétien studies is evident in items from the five continents.
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Price: $95.00
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Companion to Ancient Epic
By: Foley, John
Published by: Wiley-Blackwell
Epic was the master-genre of the ancient world: it was central to group identity, education, literature and culture.
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Price: $148.95
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A companion to Apollonius Rhodius
By: Papanghelis, T.D. (ed.); Rengakos, A. (ed.)
Published by: Koninklijke Brill NV
This collection of essays, on the author of the "Argonautica", covers a wide range of issues from the history of the text and the problems of the poet's biography through questions of style, literary technique and intertextual relations to the epic's library and cultural reception.
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Price: $256.00
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