Annual Report

Annual Report
Author: Columbia University. Office of the President
Publisher:
Total Pages: 430
Release: 1900
Genre:
ISBN:

Chaucer and the Subject of History

Chaucer and the Subject of History
Author: Lee Patterson
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Total Pages: 508
Release: 1991
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780299128340

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.

Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde and the Knight's Tale

Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde and the Knight's Tale
Author: Frieda Elaine Penninger
Publisher: University Press of America
Total Pages: 132
Release: 1993
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780819192189

This book examines Troilus and Criseyde and The Knight's Tale as poems which work the same plot to contrasting tragic and joyous endings but for the same purpose, of exploring the folly of electing the temporal world over the eternal. It demonstrates that the tragedy of Troilus and Criseyde is a consequence of the folly of relying on Fortune and temporal bliss and works through the pattern of a similar dependence in The Knight's Tale. It then develops the portrayal of the protagonists of the poems as Fortune's Fools through a scrutiny of courtship as game of play, of caritas and cupiditas contrasted with the implications of pity, mercy, grace, and love as used in temporal contexts in the poem but defined theologically elsewhere in Chaucer, and of the limitations of knighthood and chivalry as defined by the world of the poems.

English Poetry

English Poetry
Author: Newberry Library
Publisher:
Total Pages: 328
Release: 1918
Genre: English poetry
ISBN:

Routledge Library Editions: Chaucer

Routledge Library Editions: Chaucer
Author: Various
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 4802
Release: 2021-08-29
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1000682536

Reissuing works originally published between 1964 and 1994, this superb set of books is an array of scholarship on one of the most important authors of the medieval period. Some of these titles are introductory books on Chaucer and his works but others are specifically focused on his humour, or the sources he drew from, or his importance to the development of English poetry, and between them they address all of his works, not only the Canterbury Tales. A good coverage of critical study in the area of medieval poetry that contains interesting fodder for any literature student or academic.