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Demonstrating how Chaucer uses the Bible in The Canterbury Tales as an authoritative literary source and model for his own literary production, this book explores the ways in which the Bible was a key tool for Chaucer's self-definition and innovation as an author. Chad Schrock unravels Chaucer's Tales in the light of topics important to biblical reception in 14th-century England: authority, textuality, interpretation, translation, rephrasing and marginalia. When the Canterbury Tales are summed up in this way, they show the great extent to which Chaucer was drawing upon the Bible as a meta-poetical resource for his own poetry – its fictional tale-tellers and characters, its quotations, allusions and images, its plots, its imaginative engagement with an audience of listeners and readers, and its hidden intentions. Schrock demonstrates that the Bible is a uniquely potent literary source for Chaucer because it combines infinite authority and plenitude with unprecedented freedom of interpretive invention. As a world-making text, the Bible's authority includes the literary as subcategory but surpasses and contextualizes it, which gives Chaucer's deferential biblical invention a different kind of freedom and safety. Within Chaucer's tales, a biblical image is often where a given narrative peaks and its plot comes clear, but a biblical world also and without strain contains his biblical fictioneers and whatever they make from the Bible, whether orthodoxy or heresy, whether sin or worship.
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Genre |
: Literary Criticism |
Author |
: Chad Schrock |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Release |
: 2024-10-17 |
File |
: 209 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781350417427 |
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Genre |
: English literature |
Author |
: Bernhard Aegidius Konrad ten Brink |
Publisher |
: |
Release |
: 1893 |
File |
: 392 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: OSU:32435022512222 |
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This book examines the intricate and unusual relationship between the sacred and secular spheres of English medieval culture, positing that the assimilation of sacred and secular motifs could be in either direction, or even in both directions. That is, medieval English writers could appropriate biblical paradigms to express secular themes, and vice versa. Codicological, psychoanalytic, feminist, and new historicist insights inform readings of Beowulf, Middle English lyric poetry, the Gawain-poet, Chaucer, and Malory, among others. Besserman elucidates the structural and thematic complexity of the integration of biblical and biblically derived sacred diction, imagery, character types, and themes in the works under consideration, identifying within them new biblical sources and analogues and providing fresh insights into the contextual meaning and significance of the biblical paradigms they deploy. This book highlights the shaping influence of biblical and biblically derived sacred paradigms on exemplary literature produced in the middle Ages.
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Genre |
: Literary Criticism |
Author |
: Lawrence Besserman |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Release |
: 2013-03-01 |
File |
: 289 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781136597152 |
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: |
Author |
: Thomas Arnold |
Publisher |
: |
Release |
: 1870 |
File |
: 486 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: BL:A0018210285 |
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Genre |
: English literature |
Author |
: Elizabeth Lee |
Publisher |
: |
Release |
: 1896 |
File |
: 232 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: UOM:39015059900517 |
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Demonstrating how Chaucer uses the Bible in The Canterbury Tales as an authoritative literary source and model for his own literary production, this book explores the ways in which the Bible was a key tool for Chaucer's self-definition and innovation as an author. Chad Schrock unravels Chaucer's Tales in the light of topics important to biblical reception in 14th-century England: authority, textuality, interpretation, translation, rephrasing and marginalia. When the Canterbury Tales are summed up in this way, they show the great extent to which Chaucer was drawing upon the Bible as a meta-poetical resource for his own poetry – its fictional tale-tellers and characters, its quotations, allusions and images, its plots, its imaginative engagement with an audience of listeners and readers, and its hidden intentions. Schrock demonstrates that the Bible is a uniquely potent literary source for Chaucer because it combines infinite authority and plenitude with unprecedented freedom of interpretive invention. As a world-making text, the Bible's authority includes the literary as subcategory but surpasses and contextualizes it, which gives Chaucer's deferential biblical invention a different kind of freedom and safety. Within Chaucer's tales, a biblical image is often where a given narrative peaks and its plot comes clear, but a biblical world also and without strain contains his biblical fictioneers and whatever they make from the Bible, whether orthodoxy or heresy, whether sin or worship.
Product Details :
Genre |
: Literary Criticism |
Author |
: Chad Schrock |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Release |
: 2024-10-17 |
File |
: 186 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781350417434 |
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Genre |
: English literature |
Author |
: Bernhard ten Brink |
Publisher |
: |
Release |
: 1901 |
File |
: 400 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: UCAL:B3310687 |
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Genre |
: English literature |
Author |
: Bernhard Aegidius Konrad ten Brink |
Publisher |
: |
Release |
: 1901 |
File |
: 400 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: UOM:39015005765386 |
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Genre |
: English literature |
Author |
: Bernhard ten Brink |
Publisher |
: |
Release |
: 1883 |
File |
: 424 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: UVA:X004538309 |
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Genre |
: English poetry |
Author |
: Rosaline Orme Masson |
Publisher |
: |
Release |
: 1876 |
File |
: 454 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: OXFORD:600089600 |