Chaucerian Papers

Chaucerian Papers
Author: Albert Stanburrough Cook
Publisher:
Total Pages: 78
Release: 1973
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

Chaucerian Spaces

Chaucerian Spaces
Author: William F. Woods
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2008-06-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 079147819X

Chaucerian Spaces explores the affect and the significance of space and place in the first six tales in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Relatively little has been written about space in the Canterbury Tales, yet the rewards for attending to this aspect of Chaucer's aesthetic are considerable. Space indicates the potential for characteristic action, development, and a more profound expression of being. In these tales, characters inhabit a landscape and places within it that express their inner life. Emelye in her garden, Palamon and Arcite in the grove—all occupy spaces or places that manifest social destiny and individual intention. Space and subjectivity change as territories give way to households, and the horizons of consciousness shrink to the core of human intent. Most striking is the transformation of women in place. Emelye, Alysoun, even Custance and the Wife of Bath, dwell in places that express their social and economic potential. They are in place, but place is also in them: they merge in metaphor with the places that express them, bringing the reader closer to the sensible, reflective experience of the medieval subject.

Chaucer

Chaucer
Author: Eleanor Prescott Hammond
Publisher:
Total Pages: 600
Release: 1908
Genre:
ISBN:

Chaucer's General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales

Chaucer's General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
Author: Caroline D. Eckhardt
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 520
Release: 1990-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780802025920

This annotated, international bibliography of twentieth-century criticism on the Prologue is an essential reference guide. It includes books, journal articles, and dissertations, and a descriptive list of twentieth-century editions; it is the most complete inventory of modern criticism on the Prologue.

Chaucer's Frame Tales

Chaucer's Frame Tales
Author: Jörg O. Fichte
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 170
Release: 1987
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780859912358

Studies principally concerned with the nature and source of Chaucerian comedy: 'There is much to profit by here. 'STUDIES IN THE AGE OF CHAUCER