Chaucer And Langland

Author : John M. Bowers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chaucer and Langland written by John M. Bowers and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the political, social, and religious factors that contributed to the formation of a literary canon in fourteenth-century England. This book tracks the reputations of Geoffrey Chaucer and William Langland into the fifteenth century, when studies of 14th-century literature became configured in terms of a double, antagonistic dynamic.

Author : George Kane
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520330161
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chaucer and Langland written by George Kane and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1989.

Author : John Anthony Burrow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780140159066
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ricardian Poetry written by John Anthony Burrow and published by . This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Terence Leo Connolly
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to Chaucer and Langland written by Terence Leo Connolly and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521200585
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chaucer and Medieval Estates Satire written by Mann and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1973-06-28 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an attempt to discover the origins and significance of the General Prologue-to the Canterbury Tales. The interest of such an inquiry is many-sided. On the one hand, it throws light on the question of whether `life' or 'literature' was Chaucer's model in this work, on the relationship between Chaucer's twenty-odd pilgrims and the structure of medieval society, and on the role of their `estate' in determining the elements of which Chaucer composes their portraits. On the other hand, it makes suggestions about the ways in which Chaucer convinces us of the individuality of his pilgrims, about the nature of his irony, and the kind of moral standards implicit in the Prologue. This book suggests that Chaucer is ironically substituting for the traditional moral view of social structure a vision of a world where morality becomes as specialised to the individual as his work-life.

Author : John A. Burrow
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351219324
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book English Poets in the Late Middle Ages written by John A. Burrow and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together a selection of lectures and essays in which J.A. Burrow discusses the work of English poets of the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries: Chaucer, Gower, Langland, and Hoccleve, as well as the anonymous authors of Pearl, Saint Erkenwald, and a pair of metrical romances. Six of the pieces address general issues, with some reference to French and Italian writings ('Autobiographical Poetry in the Middle Ages', for example, or 'The Poet and the Book'); but most of them concentrate on particular English poems, such as Chaucer's Envoy to Scogan, Gower's Confessio Amantis, Langland's Piers Plowman, and Hoccleve's Series. Although some of the essays take account of the poet's life and times ('Chaucer as Petitioner', 'Hoccleve and the 'Court''), most are mainly concerned with the meaning and structure of the poems. What, for example, does the hero of Ipomadon hope to achieve by fighting, as he always does, incognito? Why do the stories in Piers Plowman all peter out so inconclusively? And how can it be that the narrator in Chaucer's Book of the Duchess so persistently fails to understand what he is told?

Author : Anne Middleton
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000947580
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chaucer, Langland, and Fourteenth-Century Literary History written by Anne Middleton and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-04-14 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anne Middleton's essays have been among the most vigorous, learned, and influential in the field of medieval English literature. Their 'crux-busting' energies have illuminated local obscurities with generous learning lightly wielded. Their historically- and theoretically-informed meditations on the nature of poetic discourse traced how the generation of Chaucer and Langland devised a category of the literary that could embody a ethos of engaged, worldly consensus and make that consensus available to imaginative and rational consideration. And their reflections on the enterprise of literary study found a rational way, free of cant, to understand the work of the literary scholar. This volume reprints eight essays: ’The Idea of Public Poetry in the Reign of Richard II,’ ’Chaucer's 'New Men' and the Good of Literature in the Canterbury Tales,’ ’The Physician's Tale and Love's Martyrs: 'Ensamples Mo than Ten' as a Method in the Canterbury Tales,’ ’The Clerk and His Tale: Some Literary Contexts,’ ’Narration and the Invention of Experience: Episodic Form in Piers Plowman,’ ’Making a Good End: John But as a Reader of Piers Plowman,’ ’William Langland's 'Kynde Name': Authorial Signature and Social Identity in Late Fourteenth-Century England,’ ’Life in the Margins, or, What's an Annotator to Do?’ It includes one essay previously unpublished, ’Playing the Plowman: Legends of Fourteenth-Century Authorship.’

Author : William Langland
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141960922
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Piers the Ploughman written by William Langland and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2006-01-26 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by a fourteenth-century cleric, this spiritual allegory explores man in relation to his ultimate destiny against the background of teeming, colorful medieval life.

Author : Barbara Hanawalt
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9781452901176
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chaucer's England written by Barbara Hanawalt and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Represents the first time that disciples of history and English literature have joined forces to present new interpretations of late fourteenth-century English society.

Author : William Langland
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812215618
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book William Langland's "Piers Plowman" written by William Langland and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1996-12 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A gifted poet has given us an astute, adroit, vigorous, inviting, eminently readable translation. . . . The challenging gamut of Langland's language . . . has here been rendered with blessed energy and precision. Economou has indeed Done-Best."—Allen Mandelbaum