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| Author | : Gerald J. Davis |
| Publisher | : Lulu.com |
| Total Pages | : 466 |
| Release | : 2016-06-18 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1365188019 |
The classic collection of beloved tales, both sacred and profane, of travelers in medieval England. Complete and Unabridged.
| Author | : Peter Ackroyd |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 367 |
| Release | : 2009-10-29 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1101155639 |
A fresh, modern prose retelling captures the vigorous and bawdy spirit of Chaucer’s classic Renowned critic, historian, and biographer Peter Ackroyd takes on what is arguably the greatest poem in the English language and presents the work in a prose vernacular that makes it accessible to modern readers while preserving the spirit of the original. A mirror for medieval society, Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales concerns a motley group of pilgrims who meet in a London inn on their way to Canterbury and agree to take part in a storytelling competition. Ranging from comedy to tragedy, pious sermon to ribald farce, heroic adventure to passionate romance, the tales serve not only as a summation of the sensibility of the Middle Ages but as a representation of the drama of the human condition. Ackroyd’s contemporary prose emphasizes the humanity of these characters—as well as explicitly rendering the naughty good humor of the writer whose comedy influenced Fielding and Dickens—yet still masterfully evokes the euphonies and harmonies of Chaucer’s verse. This retelling is sure to delight modern readers and bring a new appreciation to those already familiar with the classic tales.
| Author | : Lawton, David |
| Publisher | : W.W. Norton & Company |
| Total Pages | : 4 |
| Release | : 2019-10-04 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0393603474 |
Both an enhanced digital edition and a handsome print volume, The Norton Chaucer provides the complete poetry and prose, meticulously glossed and annotated specifically for undergraduate readers, with apparatus reflecting current scholarship—all at an unmatched value.
| Author | : Maurice Hewlett |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 332 |
| Release | : 1907 |
| Genre | : Manners and customs |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Geoffrey Chaucer |
| Publisher | : Prestwick House Inc |
| Total Pages | : 194 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages |
| ISBN | : 1608439356 |
| Author | : Geoffrey Chaucer |
| Publisher | : Penguin UK |
| Total Pages | : 302 |
| Release | : 2005-09-29 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 0141966793 |
The most complete of all remaining surviving fragments sections of The Canterbury Tales, the First Fragment contains some of Chaucer's most widely enjoyed work. In The General Prologue, Chaucer introduces his pilgrims through a set of speaking portraits, drawn with a clarity that makes no attempt to conceal their peculiarities. The four tales that follow - those of the Knight, Miller, Reeve and Cook - reveal a wide variety of human preoccupations: whether chivalrous, romantic or simply sexual. Brilliantly bawdy and subtly complex, each of these tales is alive with Chaucer's skills as a poet, storyteller and creator of comedy.
| Author | : Geoffrey Chaucer |
| Publisher | : OXFORD |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2009-12-17 |
| Genre | : Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages |
| ISBN | : 9780194247580 |
A retelling of five of Chaucer's classic tales in simplified language for new readers. Includes activities to enhance reading comprehension and improve vocabulary.
| Author | : Geoffrey Chaucer |
| Publisher | : Hackett Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 351 |
| Release | : 2005-03-15 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 160384063X |
Readers of this witty and fluent new translation of The Canterbury Tales should find themselves turning page after page: by recasting Chaucer's ten-syllable couplets into eight-syllable lines, Joseph Glaser achieves a lighter, more rapid cadence than other translators, a four-beat rhythm well-established in the English poetic tradition up to Chaucer's time. Glaser's shortened lines make compelling reading and mirror the elegance and variety of Chaucer's verse to a degree rarely met by translations that copy Chaucer beat for beat. Moreover, this translation's full, Chaucerian range of diction--from earthy to Latinate--conveys the great scope of Chaucer's interests and effects. The selection features complete translations of the majority of the stories, including all of the more familiar tales and narrative links along with abridgments or summaries of the others. To reflect Chaucer's interest in poetic technique, Glaser presents the tales written in non-couplet stanzas in their original forms. An Introduction, marginal glosses, bibliography, and notes are also included.
| Author | : Robert Epstein |
| Publisher | : University of Wales Press |
| Total Pages | : 266 |
| Release | : 2018-02-01 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1786831708 |
Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, the most celebrated literary work of medieval England, portrays the culture of the late Middle Ages as a deeply commercial environment, replete with commodities and dominated by market relationships. However, the market is not the only mode of exchange in Chaucer’s world or in his poem. Chaucer’s Gifts reveals the gift economy at work in the tales. Applying important recent advances in anthropological gift theory, it illuminates and explains this network of exchanges and obligations. Chaucer’s Gifts argues that the world of the Canterbury Tales harbours deep commitments to reciprocity and obligation which are at odds with a purely commercial culture, and demonstrates how the market and commercial relations are not natural, eternal, or inevitable – an essential lesson if we are to understand Chaucer’s world or our own.
