Author: Nigel Wilkins
Publisher: D.S.Brewer
Keywords: chaucer, studies, songs, revised, music, `chaucer
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1999-11-11
List price: $47.95
ISBN-10: 0859915654
ISBN-13: 9780859915656
Although Chaucer himself was never described as a musician, a number of his poems are based on French models which belong to a well-established musical tradition, and there are also many references to musical activities in his larger works. This is the starting point for Dr Wilkins’s book, which explores both the wider question of the relationship between music and literature in the fourteenth century and the specific area of Chaucer `songs’. He surveys the musical and literary scene in France, Italy and Britain during Chaucer’s lifetime, with special emphasis on composers su
Author: G H Roscow
Publisher: D.S.Brewer
Keywords: chaucer, studies, poetry, syntax, style
Number of Pages: 3060
Published: 1970-01-01
List price: $80.00
ISBN-10: 0859910806
ISBN-13: 9780859910804
The purpose of this book is to give an outline of structural features of Chaucer’s poetic syntax that are relevant to the study of style, and to define some general tendencies in his construction of sentences. What emerges is a fondness on Chaucer’s part for discontinuity in the order of words and phrases and for certain forms of expression which have a wider application t:han their modern counterparts. In order that Chaucer’s usage may be seen in its historical context, comparative material is drawn from the writings of his contemporaries - Langland, Gower, and theGawain-poe
Author: David Wallace
Publisher: D.S.Brewer
Keywords: chaucer, studies, writings, boccaccio
Number of Pages: 350
Published: 1985-05-30
List price: $79.00
ISBN-10: 0859911861
ISBN-13: 9780859911863
David Wallace’s examination of the aims and literary affiliations of Boccaccio’s early writings provides an indispensable preface to and context for an informed appraisal of Chaucer’s usage of Boccaccio. Previous studies of the relationship between the work of the two poets have tended to consider Chaucer’s borrowings without making a thorough study of the traditions which shaped the Italian writer’s work. Wallace argues that Boccaccio was not primarily concerned with winning recognition at the Angevin court, but was chiefly concerned with fashioning an identity f
Author: Norman Klassen
Publisher: D.S.Brewer
Keywords: chaucer, studies, sight, knowledge, love
Number of Pages: 238
Published: 1996-12-15
List price: $95.00
ISBN-10: 085991464X
ISBN-13: 9780859914642
In this study, Norman Klassen shows how Chaucer explores the complexity of the relationship between love and knowledge through recourse to the motif of sight. The convention of love at first sight involves love, knowledge, and sight, but insists that the claims of love and the realm of the rational are in strict opposition. In the metaphysical tradition, however, the relationship between love, knowledge and sight is more complex, manifesting both qualities of opposition and of symbiosis, similar to that found in late medieval natural philosophy. The author argues that Chaucer is unorthodox in
Author: Piero Boitani
Publisher: D.S.Brewer
Keywords: chaucer, studies, fame, world, imaginary
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 1984-05-31
List price: $90.00
ISBN-10: 0859911624
ISBN-13: 9780859911627
The House of Fame is one of Chaucer’s most intellectually challenging poems, drawing on diverse traditions such as dream poetry and mythology, but unified by the central concept of Fame. It is this concept, and the `imaginary world’ which surrounds it, which Professor Boitani explores in this volume in the Chaucer Studies series. He begins with a brief outline and discussion of the poem, showing what problems it poses, and then turns to explore the `history and meaning of the idea of Fame, such as Chaucer might have received from tradition’, a quest which leads him into Bibli
Author: David Lawton
Publisher: D.S.Brewer
Keywords: chaucer, studies, narrators
Number of Pages: 179
Published: 1985-11-28
List price: $79.00
ISBN-10: 0859912175
ISBN-13: 9780859912174
The book begins with a brief prefatory discussion of its relation to structuralist and post-structuralist criticism. The first chapter, `Apocryphal Voices’, surveys the basis of modern critical approaches to persona and `irony’ in Chaucer’s poetry, and suggests that such approaches are better suited to unequivocally written contexts. A systematic hesitation between a wholly written and a wholly spoken context requires critical distinctions between types of persona, and a number of distinctions in the range between persona and voice. `Morality in its Context’ examines th
Author: J. Allan Mitchell
Publisher: D.S.Brewer
Keywords: chaucer, gower, studies, narrative, exemplary, ethics
Number of Pages: 166
Published: 2004-10-14
List price: $90.00
ISBN-10: 1843840197
ISBN-13: 9781843840190
Why do medieval writers routinely make use of exemplary rhetoric? How does it work, and what are its ethical and poetical values? And if Chaucer and Gower must be seen as vigorously subverting it, then why do they persist in using it? Borrowing from recent developments in ethical criticism and theory, this book addresses such questions by reconstructing a late medieval rationale for the ethics of exemplary narrative. The author argues that Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales and Gower’s Confessio Amantis attest to the vitality of a narrative - rather than strictly normative - ethics that ha
