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First published in 1980, this study of two renowned later fourteenth century English poets, Chaucer and Langland, concentrates on some major and representative aspects of their work. Aers shows that, in contrast to the mass conventional writing of the period, which was happy to accept and propagate traditional ideologies, Chaucer and Langland were preoccupied with actual conflicts, strains, and developments in received ideologies and social practices. He demonstrates that they were genuinely exploratory, and created work which actively questioned dominant ideologies, even those which they themselves revered and hoped to affirm. For Chaucer and Langland the imagination was indeed creative, involved in the active construction of meanings, and in their poetry they grasped and explored social commitments, religious developments and many perplexing contradictions which were subverting inherited paradigms.
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Genre |
: Literary Criticism |
Author |
: David Aers |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Release |
: 2017-11-22 |
File |
: 287 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781351373593 |
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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.’
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Genre |
: Literary Criticism |
Author |
: Anne Middleton |
Publisher |
: Taylor & Francis |
Release |
: 2023-04-14 |
File |
: 278 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781000947588 |
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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.
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Genre |
: Literary Criticism |
Author |
: Mann |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Release |
: 1973-06-28 |
File |
: 356 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 052120058X |
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Genre |
: Literary Criticism |
Author |
: Alfred Latimer Kellogg |
Publisher |
: |
Release |
: 1972 |
File |
: 408 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: UOM:39015004027325 |
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In the early fifteenth century, English poets responded to a changed climate of patronage, instituted by Henry IV and successor monarchs, by inventing a new tradition of public and elite poetry. Following Chaucer and others, Hoccleve and Lydgate brought to English verse a style and subject matter writing about their King, nation, and themselves, and their innovations influenced a continuous line of poets running through and beyond Wyatt. A crucial aspect of this tradition is its development of ideas and practices associated with the role of poet laureate. Robert J. Meyer-Lee examines the nature and significance of this tradition as it developed from the fourteenth century to Tudor times, tracing its evolution from one author to the next. This study illuminates the relationships between poets and political power and makes plain the tremendous impact this verse has had on the shape of English literary culture.
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Genre |
: Literary Criticism |
Author |
: Robert J. Meyer-Lee |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Release |
: 2007-01-18 |
File |
: 16 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781139462716 |
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Genre |
: Clergy in literature |
Author |
: Raymond George Biggar |
Publisher |
: |
Release |
: 1961 |
File |
: 766 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: WISC:89011021557 |
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A collection of essays on Chaucer's poetry, this guide provides up-to-date information on the history and textual contexts of Chaucer's work, on the ranges of critical interpretation, and on the poet's place in English and European literary history.
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Genre |
: Literary Criticism |
Author |
: Seth Lerer |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Release |
: 2006-01-01 |
File |
: 446 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 0300109296 |
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Designed as both a contribution to original research and as a stimulating and accessible text, this volume is a helpful, reliable, responsive and adaptable resource for students of Chaucer at all levels.
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Genre |
: Literary Criticism |
Author |
: Peter Brown |
Publisher |
: John Wiley & Sons |
Release |
: 2008-04-15 |
File |
: 536 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780470692745 |
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: |
Author |
: Nevill Coghill |
Publisher |
: CUP Archive |
Release |
: 1958 |
File |
: 140 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: |
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Chaucer's interest in individuality was strikingly modern. He was aware of the pressures on individuality exerted by the past and by society - by history. Chaucer investigated not just the idea of history but the historical world intimately related to his own political and literary career. This book has shaped the way that Chaucer is read.
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Genre |
: History |
Author |
: Lee Patterson |
Publisher |
: Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Release |
: 1991 |
File |
: 508 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 0299128342 |