The Prioress and the Critics - 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 Prioress and the Critics write by Florence H. Ridley. This book was released on 1965. The Prioress and the Critics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Critics and the Prioress
The Critics and the Prioress - 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 Critics and the Prioress write by Heather Blurton. This book was released on 2017-04-19. The Critics and the Prioress available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Reinvigorating the scholarly debate surrounding approaches to one of Chaucer's most notorious tales
The Critics and the Prioress
The Critics and the Prioress - 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 Critics and the Prioress write by Hannah Johnson. This book was released on 2017-04-19. The Critics and the Prioress available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Of all the Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer’s Prioress’s Tale, in which a young schoolboy is murdered by Jews for singing a song in praise of the Virgin Mary, poses a problem to contemporary readers because of the antisemitism of the story it tells. Both the Tale’s antisemitism and its “Chaucerianism”—its fitness or aptness as part of the Chaucerian canon—are significant topics of reflection for modern readers, who worry about the Tale’s ethical implications as well as Chaucer’s own implications. Over the past fifty years, scholars have asked: Is the antisemitism in the tale that of the Prioress? Or of Chaucer the pilgrim? Or of Chaucer the author? Or, indeed, whether one ought to discuss antisemitism in the Prioress’s Tale at all, considering the potential anachronism of expecting medieval texts to conform to contemporary ideologies. The Critics and the Prioress responds to a critical stalemate between the demands of ethics and the entailments of methodology. The book addresses key moments in criticism of the Prioress’s Tale—particularly those that stage an encounter between historicism and ethics—in order to interrogate these critical impasses while suggesting new modes for future encounters. It is an effort to identify, engage, and reframe some significant—and perennially repeated—arguments staked out in this criticism, such as the roles of gender, aesthetics, source studies, and the appropriate relationship between ethics and historicism. The Critics and the Prioress will be an essential resource for Chaucer scholars researching as well as teaching the Prioress’s Tale. Scholars and students of Middle English literature and medieval culture more generally will also be interested in this book’s rigorous analysis of contemporary scholarly approaches to expressions of antisemitism in Chaucer’s England.
The Prioress and Their Critics
The Prioress and Their Critics - 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 Prioress and Their Critics write by Florence H. Ridley. This book was released on 1965. The Prioress and Their Critics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Chaucer and Clothing
Chaucer and Clothing - 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 Clothing write by Laura Fulkerson Hodges. This book was released on 2005. Chaucer and Clothing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A detailed discussion of the meaning and significance of the terms used to describe the clothing of Chaucer's religious and academic pilgrims. Religious and academic dress in the middle ages functioned as a metaphorical signifier of spiritual and intellectual standards, implied a given social status, signalled the rejection or possession of garment wealth, and, in the details, suggested the wearer's spiritual state. This book presents the first sustained analysis of the characterizing dress worn by Chaucer's pilgrims who are in holy orders and/or affiliated with universities; the author uses approaches from a variety of disciplines [received criticism of late medieval literature, developments in political, economic and social history, the visual arts, and material culture] in order to present the complex ideas and rhetoric the pilgrims' dress expresses. She also makes the religious, intellectual, and material culture of Chaucer's day accessible to modern audiences through the reconstruction of the significance of fabrics, dyes, accessories, garments, and assembled costumes, and an explanation of technical details and specialist vocabularies for cloth-making, clothing, accessories, and their images in the visual arts.
