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Chaucer, Geoffrey --- England --- Bohemia
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Ever since her triumphant debut in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, the Wife of Bath, arguably the first ordinary and recognisably real woman in English literature, has obsessed readers—from Shakespeare to James Joyce, Voltaire to Pasolini, Dryden to Zadie Smith. Few literary characters have led such colourful lives or matched her influence or capacity for reinvention in poetry, drama, fiction, and film. In The Wife of Bath, Marion Turner tells the fascinating story of where Chaucer’s favourite character came from, how she related to real medieval women, and where her many travels have taken her since the fourteenth century, from Falstaff and Molly Bloom to #MeToo and Black Lives Matter. A sexually active and funny working woman, the Wife of Bath, also known as Alison, talks explicitly about sexual pleasure. She is also a victim of domestic abuse who tells a story of rape and redemption. Formed from misogynist sources, she plays with stereotypes. Turner sets Alison’s fictional story alongside the lives of real medieval women—from a maid who travelled around Europe, abandoned her employer, and forged a new career in Rome to a duchess who married her fourth husband, a teenager, when she was sixty-five. Turner also tells the incredible story of Alison’s post-medieval life, from seventeenth-century ballads and Polish communist pop art to her reclamation by postcolonial Black British women writers. Entertaining and enlightening, funny and provocative, The Wife of Bath is a one-of-a-kind history of a literary and feminist icon who continues to capture the imagination of readers.--
Wife of Bath (Fictitious character) --- Women in literature. --- Chaucer, Geoffrey, --- Thematology --- Chaucer, Geoffrey
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Thematology --- Literature --- Chaucer, Geoffrey --- anno 500-1499 --- England
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New essays examining Bohemia as a key European context for understanding Chaucer's poetry.
Poetry. --- Chaucer, Geoffrey, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- England --- Bohemia (Czech Republic) --- Intellectual life
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This is a comprehensive critical guide to Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde. This new edition has been comprehensively revised in light of the latest scholarly and critical research and with a fully updated bibliography. It includes a full account of Chaucer's imaginative deployment of his sources, and an extended survey of this narrative poem's innovative combination of a range of generic identities. The chapters explain how Chaucer builds thematic significance into his poem's symmetrical structure, and the poem's distinctive variety in style and language, as well as a full commentary on the poem's concerns with love in the contexts of time and mutability and human free will. The Guide explores the poem as an extended debate about the nature and value of love, and how love was conceptualized and experienced as a form of service in quest of compassionate reward, a quasi-religious devotion, and a potentially fatal illness always in hope of cure. The subjectivities of the chief protagonists are fully analysed, as is the poem's problematic ending. Alongside discussions of theme and structure, there is also an account of what the extant manuscripts of Troilus and Criseyde may reveal about the poem's early genesis, and a unique survey of responses to Troilus from its own times to the present day. Barry Windeatt's contribution to the series is a comprehensive single-volume guide to Troilus and Criseyde, bringing together a wide range of material and providing a readable commentary on all aspects of the work. Combining the informative substance of a reference book with the coherence of a critical reading, the Guide has taken its place as the standard introduction to Troilus and Criseyde since its first publication in 1992.
Troïlos (mythologie grecque) --- Amour --- Guerre de Troie --- Dans la littérature --- Dans la littérature. --- Dans la littérature. --- Chaucer, Geoffrey,
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Examining hundreds of early printed books containing works by Chaucer, the 'father' of English poetry, and his much-maligned follower, John Lydgate. She demonstrates that the shift from manuscript to print was part of the controversial process by which Chaucer earned his exclusive place in English literary history.
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Transmission of texts
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Manuscript transmission
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Textual transmission
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Early printed books
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Incunabula
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History
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Origin and antecedents.
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History.
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Chaucer, Geoffrey,
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Lydgate, John,
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Chaucer, Jeffrey,
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Chʻiao-sou, Chieh-fu-lei,
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Chieh-fu-lei Chʻiao-sou,
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Choser, Dzheffri,
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Choser, Zheoffreĭ,
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Cosvr, Jvoffrvi,
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Tishūsar, Zhiyūfrī,
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Lidgate, John
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Lydgate, John
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Lidgate, Iohn
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Monk of Bury
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Monke of Burie
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Monk of Bery
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Criticism and interpretation.
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094 CHAUCER, GEOFFREY Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora--CHAUCER, GEOFFREY
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Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora--CHAUCER, GEOFFREY
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094.1 <41> Oude drukken: bibliografie--
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Less than a hundred years after Thomas Becket's martyrdom at the hands of four of Henry II's knights, his Anglo-Norman mother was transformed into a pagan princess who abandoned faith and kin for Becket's father and Christianity. Pagès uses this wholly fictional legend about the saint to examine the place and function of conversion and mission in 'The Man of Law's Tale', juxtaposing the tale with the legend about Becket's mother to assess the power (or lack thereof) of baptism in late medieval English works. This new comparative study thus provides productive insights into the complexity of the emergence of the concept of race in medieval English culture and literature.
Conversion in literature. --- Literature, Medieval --- Race awareness --- Race in literature. --- History and criticism. --- History --- Becket. --- Chaucer, Geoffrey. --- hagiography. --- medieval literature. --- portrayal of Islam. --- romance. --- Women in literature. --- Christian saints --- Saints in literature. --- Legends --- Thomas, --- Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 --- Family. --- Criticism and interpretation.
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The first extended study of the reception of Chaucer's medieval manuscripts in the early modern period, this book focuses chiefly on fifteenth-century manuscripts and discusses how these volumes were read, used, valued, and transformed in an age of the poet's prominence in print. Each chapter argues that patterns in the material interventions made by readers in their manuscripts - correcting, completing, supplementing, and authorising - reflect conventions which circulated in print, and convey prevailing preoccupations about Chaucer in the period: the antiquity and accuracy of his words, the completeness of individual texts and of the canon, and the figure of the author himself. This unexpected and compelling evidence of the interactions between fifteenth-century manuscripts and their early modern analogues asserts print's role in sustaining manuscript culture and thus offers fresh scholarly perspectives to medievalists, early modernists, and historians of the book. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.
Manuscripts, Medieval --- Modernism (Literature) --- History. --- Chaucer, Geoffrey, --- Appreciation. --- Medieval manuscripts --- Manuscripts --- Chaucer, Jeffrey, --- Chʻiao-sou, Chieh-fu-lei, --- Chieh-fu-lei Chʻiao-sou, --- Choser, Dzheffri, --- Choser, Zheoffreĭ, --- Cosvr, Jvoffrvi, --- Tishūsar, Zhiyūfrī,
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This book addresses the vexed status of literary value. Unlike other approaches, it pursues neither an apologetic thesis about literature’s defining values nor, conversely, a demystifying account of those values’ ideological uses. Instead, arguing that the category of literary value is inescapable, it focuses pragmatically on everyday scholarly and pedagogical activities, proposing how we may reconcile that category’s inevitability with our understandable wariness of its uncertainties and complicities. Toward these ends, it offers a preliminary theory of literary valuing and explores the problem of literary value in respect to the literary edition, canonicity and interpretation. Much of this exploration occurs within Chaucer studies, which, because of Chaucer’s simultaneous canonicity and marginality, provides fertile ground for thinking through the problem’s challenges. Using this subfield as a synecdoche, the book seeks to forge a viable rationale for literary studies generally. "Literary value – the worth, usefulness or importance of the literary – has been a topic of debate ever since Plato’s impugning of poetry. But from the so-called canon wars of the last century to the present, literary value has also become a perplexing source of distress. With its complicities thoroughly unmasked, literary value no longer serves as the central, self-evident justification for the study of literature. Yet no alternative consensus justification has taken its place. This book, unlike other approaches to the topic, pursues neither an apologetic thesis about the most defining values of literature nor a critique of their ideological uses. Instead, arguing that the category of literary value is ultimately inescapable, it focuses pragmatically on everyday scholarly and pedagogical activities, proposing how we may reconcile that category’s inevitability with our understandable wariness of its intractable uncertainties. The book offers a preliminary theory of literary valuing and explores the problem of literary value and possible responses in respect to the literary edition, canonicity and interpretation. Much of this exploration occurs within Chaucer studies, which, because of Chaucer’s simultaneous canonicity and marginality, provides fertile ground for thinking through the problem’s challenges. The book thereby also supplies an extended reflection on the state of Chaucer studies. In extrapolating from this subfield to the field as a whole, The Problem of Literary Value seeks to forge a viable rationale for literary studies within and beyond the academy." -- Back cover.
Literature --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc. --- Philosophy. --- Chaucer, Geoffrey, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Literature History and criticism --- Literature and philosophy --- Philosophy and literature --- Theory --- Chaucer, Jeffrey, --- Chʻiao-sou, Chieh-fu-lei, --- Chieh-fu-lei Chʻiao-sou, --- Choser, Dzheffri, --- Choser, Zheoffreĭ, --- Cosvr, Jvoffrvi, --- Tishūsar, Zhiyūfrī, --- Criticism.
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