Chaucer's Agents - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Chaucer's Agents write by Carolynn Van Dyke. This book was released on 2005. Chaucer's Agents available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Chaucer's Agents draws on medieval and modern theories of agency to provide fresh readings of the major Chaucerian texts. Collectively, those readings aim to illuminate Chaucer's responses to two greta problems of agency: the degree to which human beings and forces qualify as agents, and the equal reference of "agent" to initiators and instruments. Each chapter surveys medieval conceptions of the agency in question-- allegorical Realities, intelligent animals, pagan gods, women, and the author--and then follows that kind of agent through representative Chaucerian texts. Readers have long recognized Chaucer's interest in questions of causation; Van Dyke shows that his answers to those questions shape, even constitute, his narratives. --Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
Chaucer and the Invention of Biblical Narrative
Chaucer and the Invention of Biblical Narrative - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Chaucer and the Invention of Biblical Narrative write by Chad Schrock. This book was released on 2024-10-17. Chaucer and the Invention of Biblical Narrative available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Demonstrating how Chaucer uses the Bible in The Canterbury Tales as an authoritative literary source and model for his own literary production, this book explores the ways in which the Bible was a key tool for Chaucer's self-definition and innovation as an author. Chad Schrock unravels Chaucer's Tales in the light of topics important to biblical reception in 14th-century England: authority, textuality, interpretation, translation, rephrasing and marginalia. When the Canterbury Tales are summed up in this way, they show the great extent to which Chaucer was drawing upon the Bible as a meta-poetical resource for his own poetry – its fictional tale-tellers and characters, its quotations, allusions and images, its plots, its imaginative engagement with an audience of listeners and readers, and its hidden intentions. Schrock demonstrates that the Bible is a uniquely potent literary source for Chaucer because it combines infinite authority and plenitude with unprecedented freedom of interpretive invention. As a world-making text, the Bible's authority includes the literary as subcategory but surpasses and contextualizes it, which gives Chaucer's deferential biblical invention a different kind of freedom and safety. Within Chaucer's tales, a biblical image is often where a given narrative peaks and its plot comes clear, but a biblical world also and without strain contains his biblical fictioneers and whatever they make from the Bible, whether orthodoxy or heresy, whether sin or worship.
Annotated Chaucer bibliography
Annotated Chaucer bibliography - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Annotated Chaucer bibliography write by Mark Allen. This book was released on 2015-11-01. Annotated Chaucer bibliography available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An extremely thorough, expertly compiled and crisply annotated comprehensive bibliography of Chaucer scholarship between 1997 and 2010
Tellers, Tales, and Translation in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
Tellers, Tales, and Translation in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tellers, Tales, and Translation in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales write by Warren Ginsberg. This book was released on 2015. Tellers, Tales, and Translation in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Tellers, Tales, and Translation argues that Chaucer often recast a coordinating idea or set of concerns in the portraits, prologues, tales, and epilogues that make up a 'Canterbury' performance.
Chaucer's Humor
Chaucer's Humor - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Chaucer's Humor write by Jean E. Jost. This book was released on 2019-09-18. Chaucer's Humor available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Originally published in 1994. Chaucer is considered the first major humorist in English literature and is particularly interesting as he reflects the humor of predecessors and contemporaries as well as defines development for subsequent British humor. This collection presents essays that define the nature of Chaucerian humor, examine Chaucer’s works from a variety of theoretical perspectives, and consider genres of humor within his writing. This is an excellent work of critical discourse that adds important understanding of Chaucer as well as the field of comedy in literature.
