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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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Chaucers England
By: Hanawalt, Barbara A. (ed.)
Published by: University of Minnesota Press
Represents the first time that disciples of history and English literature have joined forces to present new interpretations of late fourteenth-century English society.
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Price: $70.50
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Chaucers Queer Nation
By: Burger, Glenn
Published by: University of Minnesota Press
Bringing the concerns of queer theory and postcolonial studies to bear on Chaucers Canterbury Tales, this ambitious book compels a rethinking not only of this most canonical of works, but also of questions of sexuality and gender in pre- and postmodern contexts, of issues of modernity and nation in historiography, and even of the enterprise of historiography itself.
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Price: $84.00
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Chaucer's Pilgrims
By: Lambdin, Robert Thomas; Lambdin, Laura
Published by: Praeger
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales is one of the oldest and most widely studied works of English literature. The tales provide a glimpse of medieval life, and the professions of the pilgrims figure prominently in the poetry. To have a clear understanding of Chaucer's work, the reader needs to know about the vocations of the pilgrims. For some 600 years, this information has been difficult to locate. This reference work conveniently synthesizes and discusses information about the occupation of each of Chaucer's pilgrims and provides an historical context.||The volume contains individual entries for each of Chaucer's pilgrims, and the entries share a similar format to foster comparison. Each entry includes three parts. First, the pilgrim's profession is discussed in terms of the daily routine of the medieval occupation. Second, the vocation is examined in terms of its reflection in the tale told by the pilgrim. Third, the vocation and the tale are discussed, when possible, in relation to the descriptions of the characters provided in the General Prologue. Each entry includes a bibliography, and the volume concludes with a list of works for further reading.
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Price: $63.00
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Chaucerian Conflict
By: Turner, Marion
Published by: Clarendon Press
This book offers a completely new reading of Chaucer. While most critics have seen his work as essentially socially optimistic and congenial, Marion Turner argues that Chaucer was profoundly concerned with conflict and social antagonism. Chaucer's texts are examined alongside a wide variety of poetry and historical documents from the period. - ;Chaucerian Conflict explores the textual environment of London in the 1380s and 1390s, revealing a language of betrayal, surveillance, slander, treason, rebellion, flawed idealism, and corrupted compaignyes. Taking a strongly interdisciplinary approach, it examines how discourses about social antagonism work across different kinds of texts written at this time, including Chaucer's House of Fame, Troilus and Criseyde, and Canterbury Tales,. and other literary texts such as St Erkenwald, Gower's Vox clamantis, Usk's Testament of Love, and Maidstone's Concordia. Many non-literary texts are also discussed, including the Mercers' Petition, Usk's Appeal, the guild returns, judicial letters, de Mezieres's Letter to Richard II, and chronicle accounts. These were tumultuous decades in London: some of the conflicts and problems discussed include the Peasants' Revolt, the mayoral rivalries of the 1380s, the Merciless Parliament, slander legislation, and contemporary suspicion of urban associations. While contemporary texts try to hold out hope for the future, or imagine an earlier Golden Age, Chaucer's texts foreground social conflict and antagonism. Though most critics have promoted an idea of Chaucer's texts as essentially socially optimistic. and congenial, Marion Turner argues that Chaucer presents a vision of a society that is inevitably divided and destructive. - ;It is refreshing to read a work of literary criticism so enmeshed in primary sources and so able to construct its own understanding of a historical moment. Turner is a sensitive reader of texts, and her vision of Ricardian inte
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Price: $110.00
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The Children
By: Meynell, Alice
Published by: ReadHowYouWant
Meynell has chosen various topics and with skilful portrayal she imparts a new perspective to all of them. The charming little events, the course of development and other stages of infancy and upbringing are discussed in this collection of essays.
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Chivalry and Romance in the English Renaissance
By: Davis, Alex
Published by: Boydell & Brewer
Chivalry and Romance in Renaissance England offers a reinterpretation of the place and significance of chivalric culture in the sixteenth and seventeenth-century and explores the implications of this reconfigured interpretation for an understanding of the medieval generally.
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Price: $95.00
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The classical heritage in France
By: Sandy, G. (ed.)
Published by: Koninklijke Brill NV
A study of the reception of Greek and Latin culture in France in the 16th and 17th centuries. There are surveys on topics as diverse as the role of French travellers to classical lands in transforming perceptible reality into narrative textuality, and the influence of ancient law in France.
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Price: $255.00
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