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Designed to fill a gap in Chaucerian studies, this book offers new insight into the development of Chaucer's artistry at a critical point in his career, after he had completed the Troilus and just before he embarked on The Canterbury Tales. Chaucer and "The Legend of Good Women" rejects the usual critical assessment of the Legend, setting it forth instead as a serious and experimental work, an important and necessary prelude to the achievement of The Canterbury Tales. Robert Worth Frank, Jr., begins his analysis of the Legend with a careful consideration of Chaucer's situation in 1386, the year he presumably began the Legend. It was, he suggests, a moment in his career propitious for change--change in subject and in art as well. The Legend reveals this change in the process of its accomplishment. Frank stresses that the road to The Canterbury Tales runs through the Legend. In tracing the route he shows how Chaucer broke away from the limited tradition of courtly love and experimented with a variety of tones and styles and an expanded range of subject matter, with a new verse form, the pentameter couplet, and with new techniques of compression which led to a greater dedication to the short narrative form. The individual legends, though not Chaucer's greatest creations, have merits of their own. The general uniformity of theme proves misleading. The legends provide Chaucer with a broader canvas than he had ever used before, making possible a wide variety in tone and dramatic incident. Above all, this study, enlivened by the author's supple and spirited prose, depicts Chaucer boldly committing himself to the great world of story and thereby drawing on some of the most enduring classical myths for material and moving toward a new art and a new and richer realm of human experience.

Englische Literatur. --- Mythology, Classical, in literature. --- The legende of good women (Chaucer) --- Women in literature. --- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400. Legend of good women. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / General.

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In these reflections on the mercurial qualities of style in Ovid's Meta-morphoses, Garth Tissol contends that stylistic features of the ever-shifting narrative surface, such as wordplay, narrative disruption, and the self-conscious reworking of the poetic tradition, are thematically significant. It is the style that makes the process of reading the work a changing, transformative experience, as it both embodies and reflects the poem's presentation of the world as defined by instability and flux. Tissol deftly illustrates that far from being merely ornamental, style is as much a site for interpretation as any other element of Ovid's art.In the first chapter, Tissol argues that verbal wit and wordplay are closely linked to Ovidian metamorphoses. Wit challenges the ordinary conceptual categories of Ovid's readers, disturbing and extending the meanings and references of words. Thereby it contributes on the stylistic level to the readers' apprehension of flux. On a larger scale, parallel disturbances occur in the progress of narratives. In the second and third chapters, the author examines surprise and abrupt alteration of perspective as important features of narrative style. We experience reading as a transformative process not only in the characteristic indirection and unpredictability of Ovid's narrative but also in the memory of his predecessors. In the fourth chapter, Tissol shows how Ovid subsumes Vergil's Aeneid into the Metamorphoses in an especially rich allusive exploitation, one which contrasts Vergil's aetiological themes with those of his own work.Originally published in 1997.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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La première moitié du XXe siècle a vu un incontestable développement de réécritures de grands mythes grecs et romains et de reprises de figures de l'Antiquité, tant dans des oeuvres qualifiées de "néo-classiques" (Orphée de Cocteau, Oedipe de Gide par exemple) que dans des productions des avant-gardes qui s'affirment à cette époque (Les Mamelles de Tiresias d'Apollinaire, Ulysses de Joyce ou The Waste Land de TS Eliot, pour n'en citer que quelques-unes). Les enjeux esthétiques de la réappropriation de ces mythes et figures de l'Antiquité gréco-romaine ne peuvent être pleinement mesurés que si sont prises en compte les implications idéologiques et philosophiques de ce même phénomène. La Grèce dans l'Allemagne nazie, Rome dans l'Italie fasciste, le "mythe" et le "sacré" dans la pensée de leurs théoriciens ne revêtent évidemment pas les mêmes significations que pour des défenseurs de l'humanisme et de la démocratie. Et on ne peut plus parler de la même façon de Dionysos, d'Apollon et d'Oedipe après Nietzsche et Freud. Quelles idées de l'homme, de la cité et de l'art sont en cause et en jeu lorsque des "modernes" reviennent à la matière des mythes antiques ou utilisent des figures de l'Antiquité gréco-romaine ?

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