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Author : Kathryn L. Lynch
Release : 2000
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 004/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Chaucer's Philosophical Visions by : Kathryn L. Lynch
Download or read book Chaucer's Philosophical Visions written by Kathryn L. Lynch. This book was released on 2000. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New readings of Chaucer's dream visions, demonstrating his philosophical interests and learning.
Author : Michael St John
Release : 2017-03-02
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Chaucer’s Dream Visions by : Michael St John
Download or read book Chaucer’s Dream Visions written by Michael St John. This book was released on 2017-03-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chaucer used the dream device to engage with the work of French and Italian authors and to explore the philosophical content of their poetry. His four dream visions therefore represent an important conduit through which the influence of European writers was received into English, enabling a profound transition in the way in which the 'self' was conceptualized in medieval courtly literature. Chaucer's Dream Visions is the first book length study to examine the poet's considered use of Aristotelian psychology to describe the mind of the courtly subject in its social context. The study shows that by drawing upon Aristotelian psychology, derived from his reading of Boethius, Dante, and the poets of the French court, Chaucer was able to articulate precisely those aspects of the courtly identity that are determined by language and empirical experience, and those which are transcendent of this determinism. A detailed engagement with the literature, language, and behaviour of the court therefore takes place in the dream visions, which are a genuine exploration of individual subjectivity in its social context. The author of this volume demonstrates that the motivation for this exploration is a product of Chaucer's Christian beliefs and philosophical awareness. Chaucer's Dream Visions thus constitutes a major contribution to the debate concerning distinctions between medieval and early modern culture.
Author : Gillian Adler
Release : 2022-02-15
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 370/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Chaucer and the Ethics of Time by : Gillian Adler
Download or read book Chaucer and the Ethics of Time written by Gillian Adler. This book was released on 2022-02-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geoffrey Chaucer wrote at a turning point in the history of timekeeping, but many of his poems demonstrate a greater interest in the moral dimension of time than in the mechanics of the medieval clock. Chaucer and the Ethics of Time examines Chaucer’s sensitivity to the insecurity of human experience amid the temporal circumstances of change and time-passage, as well as strategies for ethicising historical vision in several of his major works. While wasting time was sometimes viewed as a sin in the late Middle Ages, Chaucer resists conventional moral dichotomies and explores a complex and challenging relationship between the interior sense of time and the external pressures of linearism and cyclicality. Chaucer’s diverse philosophical ideas about time unfold through the reciprocity between form and discourse, thus encouraging a new look at not only the characters’ ruminations on time in the tradition of St Augustine and Boethius, but also manifold narrative sequences and structures, including anachronism.
Author : Ian Johnson
Release : 2019-07-11
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Geoffrey Chaucer in Context by : Ian Johnson
Download or read book Geoffrey Chaucer in Context written by Ian Johnson. This book was released on 2019-07-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a rich and varied reference resource, illuminating the different contexts for Chaucer and his work.
Author : Piero Boitani
Release : 2004-01-12
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer by : Piero Boitani
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer written by Piero Boitani. This book was released on 2004-01-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
