Literary Value and Social Identity in the 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 Literary Value and Social Identity in the Canterbury Tales write by Robert J. Meyer-Lee. This book was released on 2019-10-24. Literary Value and Social Identity in the Canterbury Tales available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Introduction: Canterbury tales IV-V and literary value -- Clerk -- Merchant -- Squire -- Franklin.
Symptomatic Subjects
Symptomatic Subjects - 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 Symptomatic Subjects write by Julie Orlemanski. This book was released on 2019-04-30. Symptomatic Subjects available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the period just prior to medicine's modernity—before the rise of Renaissance anatomy, the centralized regulation of medical practice, and the valorization of scientific empiricism—England was the scene of a remarkable upsurge in medical writing. Between the arrival of the Black Death in 1348 and the emergence of printed English books a century and a quarter later, thousands of discrete medical texts were copied, translated, and composed, largely for readers outside universities. These widely varied texts shared a model of a universe crisscrossed with physical forces and a picture of the human body as a changeable, composite thing, tuned materially to the world's vicissitudes. According to Julie Orlemanski, when writers like Geoffrey Chaucer, Robert Henryson, Thomas Hoccleve, and Margery Kempe drew on the discourse of phisik—the language of humors and complexions, leprous pustules and love sickness, regimen and pharmacopeia—they did so to chart new circuits of legibility between physiology and personhood. Orlemanski explores the texts of her vernacular writers to show how they deployed the rich terminology of embodiment and its ailments to portray symptomatic figures who struggled to control both their bodies and the interpretations that gave their bodies meaning. As medical paradigms mingled with penitential, miraculous, and socially symbolic systems, these texts demanded that a growing number of readers negotiate the conflicting claims of material causation, intentional action, and divine power. Examining both the medical writings of late medieval England and the narrative and poetic works that responded to them, Symptomatic Subjects illuminates the period's conflicts over who had the authority to construe bodily signs and what embodiment could be made to mean.
The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer
The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer - 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 The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer write by Piero Boitani. This book was released on 2004-01-12. The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer is an extensively revised version of the first edition, which has become a classic in the field. This new volume responds to the success of the first edition and to recent debates in Chaucer Studies. Important material has been updated, and new contributions have been commissioned to take into account recent trends in literary theory as well as in studies of Chaucer's works. New chapters cover the literary inheritance traceable in his works to French and Italian sources, his style, as well as new approaches to his work. Other topics covered include the social and literary scene in England in Chaucer's time, and comedy, pathos and romance in the Canterbury Tales. The volume now offers a useful chronology, and the bibliography has been entirely updated to provide an indispensable guide for today's student of Chaucer.
The Cambridge Companion to ‘The Canterbury Tales'
The Cambridge Companion to ‘The 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 The Cambridge Companion to ‘The Canterbury Tales' write by Frank Grady. This book was released on 2020-09-10. The Cambridge Companion to ‘The Canterbury Tales' available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A lively and accessible introduction to the variety, depth, and wonder of Chaucer's best-known poem.
Arts of Dying
Arts of Dying - 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 Arts of Dying write by D. Vance Smith. This book was released on 2020-04-03. Arts of Dying available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. People in the Middle Ages had chantry chapels, mortuary rolls, the daily observance of the Office of the Dead, and even purgatory—but they were still unable to talk about death. Their inability wasn’t due to religion, but philosophy: saying someone is dead is nonsense, as the person no longer is. The one thing that can talk about something that is not, as D. Vance Smith shows in this innovative, provocative book, is literature. Covering the emergence of English literature from the Old English to the late medieval periods, Arts of Dying argues that the problem of how to designate death produced a long tradition of literature about dying, which continues in the work of Heidegger, Blanchot, and Gillian Rose. Philosophy’s attempt to designate death’s impossibility is part of a literature that imagines a relationship with death, a literature that intensively and self-reflexively supposes that its very terms might solve the problem of the termination of life. A lyrical and elegiac exploration that combines medieval work on the philosophy of language with contemporary theorizing on death and dying, Arts of Dying is an important contribution to medieval studies, literary criticism, phenomenology, and continental philosophy.
