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Thematology --- Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Ces poèmes du XIVe siècle traduisent la langue des oiseaux, qui possèdent celle secrète des dieux et enseignent ce que les hommes n'entendent pas. Le parlement des oiseaux réunit volatiles et volailles. En ce jour de Saint-Valentin, dans une joyeuse cacophonie, il convient à chacun de trouver sa moitié et de célébrer la fête de l'amour.

English poetry --- Poésie anglaise --- Chaucer, Geoffrey,

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Can an outrageously immoral man or a scandalous woman teach morality or lead people to virtue? Does personal fallibility devalue one's words and deeds? Is it possible to separate the private from the public, to segregate individual failing from official function? Chaucer addressed these perennial issues through two problematic authority figures, the Pardoner and the Wife of Bath. The Pardoner dares to assume official roles to which he has no legal claim and for which he is quite unsuited. We are faced with the shocking consequences of the belief, standard for the time, that immorality is not necessarily a bar to effective ministry. Even more subversively, the Wife of Bath, who represents one of the most despised stereotypes in medieval literature, the sexually rapacious widow, dispenses wisdom of the highest order. This innovative book places these "fallible authors" within the full intellectual context that gave them meaning. Alastair Minnis magisterially examines the impact of Aristotelian thought on preaching theory, the controversial practice of granting indulgences, religious and medical categorizations of deviant bodies, theological attempts to rationalize sex within marriage, Wycliffite doctrine that made authority dependent on individual grace and raised the specter of Donatism, and heretical speculation concerning the possibility of female teachers. Chaucer's Pardoner and Wife of Bath are revealed as interconnected aspects of a single radical experiment wherein the relationship between objective authority and subjective fallibility is confronted as never before.

Literature --- History and criticism. --- Chaucer, Geoffrey, --- Appraisal of books --- Books --- Evaluation of literature --- Criticism --- Literary style --- Appraisal --- Evaluation --- Cultural Studies. --- Literature. --- Chaucer, geoffrey (1340?-1400). the pardoner's tale --- Chaucer, geoffrey (1340?-1400). the wife of bath's tale

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Examines affect and the significance of space and place in the first six Canterbury Tales.

Poetry, Medieval --- Poetics --- History and criticism. --- History --- Chaucer, Geoffrey, --- Chaucer, Jeffrey, --- Chʻiao-sou, Chieh-fu-lei, --- Chieh-fu-lei Chʻiao-sou, --- Choser, Dzheffri, --- Choser, Zheoffreĭ, --- Cosvr, Jvoffrvi, --- Tishūsar, Zhiyūfrī, --- Criticism and interpretation.

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This book makes a vigorous reassessment of the moral dimension in Chaucer's writings. For the Middle Ages, the study of human behaviour generally signified the study of the morality of attitudes, choices, and actions. Moreover, moral analysis was not gender neutral: it presupposed that certain virtues and certain failings were largely gender-specific. Alcuin Blamires - mainly concentrating on The Canterbury Tales - discloses how Chaucer adapts the composite inherited traditions of moral literature to shape the significance and the gender implications of his narratives. Chaucer, Ethics, and Gender is therefore not a theorization of ethical reading but a discussion of Chaucer's engagement with the literature of practical ethical advice. Working with the commonplace primary sources of the period, Blamires demonstrates that Stoic ideals, somewhat uncomfortably absorbed within medieval Christian moral codes as Chaucer realized, penetrate the poet's constructions of how women and men behave in matters (for instance) of friendship and anger, sexuality and chastity, protest and sufferance, generosity and greed, credulity and foresight.The book will be absorbing for all serious readers or teachers of Chaucer because it is packed with commanding new insights. It offers illuminating explanations concerning topics that have often eluded critics in the past: the flood-forecast in The Miller's Tale, for example; or the status of emotion and equanimity in The Franklin's Tale; the 'unethical' sexual trading in The Shipman's Tale; the contemporary moral force of a widow's curse in The Friar's Tale; and the quizzical moral link between The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale. There is even a new hypothesis about the conceptual design of The Canterbury Tales as a whole. Deeply informed and historically alert, this is a book that engages its reader in the vital role played by ethical assumptions (with their attendant gender assumptions) in Chaucer's major poetry.

Ethics, Medieval, in literature. --- Virtues in literature. --- Sex role in literature. --- English poetry --- Morale médiévale dans la littérature --- Vertus dans la littérature --- Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature --- Poésie anglaise --- Themes, mitces --- Thèmes, motifs --- Chaucer, Geoffrey, --- Ethics. --- Morale médiévale dans la littérature --- Vertus dans la littérature --- Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature --- Poésie anglaise --- Thèmes, motifs --- Chaucer, Geoffrey (1340?-1400) --- Rôle selon le sexe --- Morale --- Critique et interprétation --- Dans la littérature