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| Author | : Peggy Knapp |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 174 |
| Release | : 2013-05-13 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1136810951 |
First published in 1990, Chaucer and the Social Contest takes a fresh view of The Canterbury Tales, by placing the storytelling contest among the Canterbury pilgrims within the larger social contests in the changing England of the late fourteenth century. The author focuses on three crucial fields of contention: the division of social duties into the three estates, the controversies around Wycliffite thought and practice, and the roles of women. Drawing on recent literary theory, particularly Bakhtin and Foucault, Peggy Knapp offers both a reading of nearly all the tales and an argument about how such readings come about, both for Chaucer’s earliest audiences and for us.
| Author | : David Aers |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 287 |
| Release | : 2017-11-22 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1351373595 |
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.
| Author | : Wolfgang Clemen |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 227 |
| Release | : 2013-09-13 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1135093598 |
First published in 1963, this book provides an account of Chaucer’s poetry written before The Canterbury Tales. W. H. Clemen gives full, comprehensive and intriguing accounts of three major poems including The Book of the Duchess, The House of Fame, and The Parliament of Fowls in addition to some other, more minor poems from Chaucer’s oeuvre.
| Author | : Kenneth Levine |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 345 |
| Release | : 2018-12-20 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 1315279274 |
First published in 1986, this book looks at the impact of mass literacy on everyday life, discussing the fundamental differences between traditional oral cultures and contemporary industrialised societies where most people rely on complex combinations of oral and literate communication. There is also a detailed examination of the problems of the sub-literate minority with recommendations for future programmes of assistance. This book also provides a historical survey of the spread of literacy in British society from the Roman occupation onwards. In conclusion, the author discusses the impact of information technologies on people with limited basic skills.
| Author | : Paul E. Szarmach |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 949 |
| Release | : 2017-07-05 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1351666371 |
First published in 1998, this valuable reference work offers concise, expert answers to questions on all aspects of life and culture in Medieval England, including art, architecture, law, literature, kings, women, music, commerce, technology, warfare and religion. This wide-ranging text encompasses English social, cultural, and political life from the Anglo-Saxon invasions in the fifth century to the turn of the sixteenth century, as well as its ties to the Celtic world of Wales, Scotland and Ireland, the French and Anglo-Norman world of the Continent and the Viking and Scandinavian world of the North Sea. A range of topics are discussed from Sedulius to Skelton, from Wulfstan of York to Reginald Pecock, from Pictish art to Gothic sculpture and from the Vikings to the Black Death. A subject and name index makes it easy to locate information and bibliographies direct users to essential primary and secondary sources as well as key scholarship. With more than 700 entries by over 300 international scholars, this work provides a detailed portrait of the English Middle Ages and will be of great value to students and scholars studying Medieval history in England and Europe, as well as non-specialist readers.
| Author | : Norm Klassen |
| Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 159 |
| Release | : 2016-11-09 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1498283691 |
In The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer asks a basic human question: How do we overcome tyranny? His answer goes to the heart of a revolutionary way of thinking about the very end of human existence and the nature of created being. His answer, declared performatively over the course of a symbolic pilgrimage, urges the view that humanity has an intrinsic need of grace in order to be itself. In portraying this outlook, Chaucer contributes to what has been called the "palaeo-Christian" understanding of creaturely freedom. Paradoxically, genuine freedom grows out of the dependency of all things upon God. In imaginatively inhabiting this view of reality, Chaucer aligns himself with that other great poet-theologian of the Middle Ages, Dante. Both are true Christian humanists. They recognize in art a fragile opportunity: not to reduce reality to a set of dogmatic propositions but to participate in an ever-deepening mystery. Chaucer effectively calls all would-be members of the pilgrim fellowship that is the church to behave as artists, interpretively responding to God in the finitude of their existence together.
| Author | : Richard Emmerson |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 778 |
| Release | : 2017-07-05 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1351681680 |
First published in 2006, Key Figures in Medieval Europe, brings together in one volume the most important people who lived in medieval Europe between 500 and 1500. Gathered from the biographical entries from the series, Routledge Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages, these A-Z biographical entries discuss the lives of over 575 individuals who have had a historical impact in such areas as politics, religion, and the arts. It includes individuals from places such as medieval England, France, Germany, Iberia, Italy, and Scandinavia, as well as those from the Jewish and Islamic worlds. In one convenient volume, students, scholars, and interested readers will find the biographies of the people whose actions, beliefs, creations, and writings shaped the Middle Ages, one of the most fascinating periods of world history.
| Author | : Peggy Knapp |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 174 |
| Release | : 2013-05-13 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 113681096X |
First published in 1990, Chaucer and the Social Contest takes a fresh view of The Canterbury Tales, by placing the storytelling contest among the Canterbury pilgrims within the larger social contests in the changing England of the late fourteenth century. The author focuses on three crucial fields of contention: the division of social duties into the three estates, the controversies around Wycliffite thought and practice, and the roles of women. Drawing on recent literary theory, particularly Bakhtin and Foucault, Peggy Knapp offers both a reading of nearly all the tales and an argument about how such readings come about, both for Chaucer’s earliest audiences and for us.
| Author | : Baba Brinkman |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 360 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : |
"Rapper MC Baba Brinkman brings his performance piece "The Rap Canterbury Tales" to the printed page, resurrecting Chaucer's brilliant stories that will once and again delight and edify both live audiences and readers - a rebirth of what poetry should be in its essence, and once was. Since Chaucer has become an unassailable icon of print culture, and hip-hop is an unassailable icon of contemporary digital cool, Brinkman saw this radical new fusion of content and style as the perfect medium to deliver Chaucer timeless message to a younger generation. The raps are presented here along with Chaucer's original Middle English, Brinkman's explanatory introduction, and his brother and stage manager Erik's illustrations."--BOOK JACKET.
| Author | : Raphael Samuel |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 437 |
| Release | : 2016-05-12 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1317206916 |
First published in 1981, this book brings together different types of work by numerous fragmented groups in the field of Marxist history and puts them in dialogue with each other. It takes stock of then recent work, explores the main new lines, and looks at the political and ideological circumstances shaping the direction of historical work, past and present. The scope of the book is international with contributions on African history, fascism and anti-fascism, French labour history, and the transition from feudalism to capitalism. It also incorporates feminist history and gives attention to some of the leading questions raised for social history by the women’s movement.
