The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer
Author : Suzanne Conklin Akbari
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2020-04-23
ISBN 10 : 9780199582655
Pages : 689 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (199 users)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer PDF or another Format written by Suzanne Conklin Akbari and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-04-23 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the 'father' of the English literary canon, one of a very few writers to appear in every 'great books' syllabus, Chaucer is seen as an author whose works are fundamentally timeless: an author who, like Shakespeare, exemplifies the almost magical power of poetry to appeal to each generation of readers. Every age remakes its own Chaucer, developing new understandings of how his poetry intersects with contemporary ways of seeing the world, and the place of the subject who lives in it. This Handbook comprises a series of essays by established scholars and emerging voices that address Chaucer's poetry in the context of several disciplines, including late medieval philosophy and science, Mediterranean Studies, comparative literature, vernacular theology, and popular devotion. The volume paints the field in broad strokes and sections include Biography and Circumstances of Daily Life; Chaucer in the European Frame; Philosophy and Science in the Universities; Christian Doctrine and Religious Heterodoxy; and the Chaucerian Afterlife. Taken as a whole, The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer offers a snapshot of the current state of the field, and a bold suggestion of the trajectories along which Chaucer studies are likely to develop in the future.
The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer
Author : Suzanne Conklin Akbari
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2020-05-07
ISBN 10 : 9780191649370
Pages : 672 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (191 users)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer PDF or another Format written by Suzanne Conklin Akbari and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-07 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the 'father' of the English literary canon, one of a very few writers to appear in every 'great books' syllabus, Chaucer is seen as an author whose works are fundamentally timeless: an author who, like Shakespeare, exemplifies the almost magical power of poetry to appeal to each generation of readers. Every age remakes its own Chaucer, developing new understandings of how his poetry intersects with contemporary ways of seeing the world, and the place of the subject who lives in it. This Handbook comprises a series of essays by established scholars and emerging voices that address Chaucer's poetry in the context of several disciplines, including late medieval philosophy and science, Mediterranean Studies, comparative literature, vernacular theology, and popular devotion. The volume paints the field in broad strokes and sections include Biography and Circumstances of Daily Life; Chaucer in the European Frame; Philosophy and Science in the Universities; Christian Doctrine and Religious Heterodoxy; and the Chaucerian Afterlife. Taken as a whole, The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer offers a snapshot of the current state of the field, and a bold suggestion of the trajectories along which Chaucer studies are likely to develop in the future.
The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English
Author : Elaine Treharne
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2010-04-15
ISBN 10 : 9780191572593
Pages : 792 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (191 users)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English PDF or another Format written by Elaine Treharne and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of medieval literature has experienced a revolution in the last two decades, which has reinvigorated many parts of the discipline and changed the shape of the subject in relation to the scholarship of the previous generation. 'New' texts (laws and penitentials, women's writing, drama records), innovative fields and objects of study (the history of the book, the study of space and the body, medieval masculinities), and original ways of studying them (the Sociology of the Text, performance studies) have emerged. This has brought fresh vigour and impetus to medieval studies, and impacted significantly on cognate periods and areas. The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English brings together the insights of these new fields and approaches with those of more familiar texts and methods of study, to provide a comprehensive overview of the state of medieval literature today. It also returns to first principles in posing fundamental questions about the nature, scope, and significance of the discipline, and the directions that it might take in the next decade. The Handbook contains 44 newly commissioned essays from both world-leading scholars and exciting new scholarly voices. Topics covered range from the canonical genres of Saints' lives, sermons, romance, lyric poetry, and heroic poetry; major themes including monstrosity and marginality, patronage and literary politics, manuscript studies and vernacularity are investigated; and there are close readings of key texts, such as Beowulf, Wulf and Eadwacer, and Ancrene Wisse and key authors from Ælfric to Geoffrey Chaucer, Langland, and the Gawain Poet.
The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English
Author : Elaine Treharne
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2010-04-15
ISBN 10 : 9780199229123
Pages : 789 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (199 users)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English PDF or another Format written by Elaine Treharne and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 789 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together the insights of new fields and approaches with those of more familiar texts and methods, this handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the state of Medieval Literature today. It discusses texts such as Beowulf, Wulf and Eadwacer, and Ancrene Wisse and authors from Ælfric to Chaucer, Langland, and the Gawain Poet.
The Oxford Handbook of English Literature and Theology
Author : Andrew Hass
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2007-03-15
ISBN 10 : 0199271976
Pages : 909 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (271 users)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of English Literature and Theology PDF or another Format written by Andrew Hass and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-03-15 with total page 909 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A defining volume of essays in which leading international scholars apply an interdisciplinary approach to the long and evolving relationship between English Literature and Theology.
The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Medievalism
Author : Joanne Parker
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2020-09-15
ISBN 10 : 9780191648267
Pages : 672 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (191 users)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Medievalism PDF or another Format written by Joanne Parker and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1859, the historian Lord John Acton asserted: 'two great principles divide the world, and contend for the mastery, antiquity and the middle ages'. The influence on Victorian culture of the 'Middle Ages' (broadly understood then as the centuries between the Roman Empire and the Renaissance) was both pervasive and multi-faceted. This 'medievalism' led, for instance, to the rituals and ornament of the Medieval Catholic church being reintroduced to Anglicanism. It led to the Saxon Witan being celebrated as a prototypical representative parliament. It resulted in Viking raiders being acclaimed as the forefathers of the British navy. And it encouraged innumerable nineteenth-century men to cultivate the superlative beards we now think of as typically 'Victorian'—in an attempt to emulate their Anglo-Saxon forefathers. Different facets of medieval life, and different periods before the Renaissance, were utilized in nineteenth-century Britain for divergent political and cultural agendas. Medievalism also became a dominant mode in Victorian art and architecture, with 75 per cent of churches in England built on a Gothic rather than a classical model. And it was pervasive in a wide variety of literary forms, from translated sagas to pseudo-medieval devotional verse to triple-decker novels. Medievalism even transformed nineteenth-century domesticity: while only a minority added moats and portcullises to their homes, the medieval-style textiles produced by Morris and Co. decorated many affluent drawing rooms. The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Medievalism is the first work to examine in full the fascinating phenomenon of 'medievalism' in Victorian Britain. Covering art, architecture, religion, literature, politics, music, and social reform, the Handbook also surveys earlier forms of antiquarianism that established the groundwork for Victorian movements. In addition, this collection addresses the international context, by mapping the spread of medievalism across Europe, South America, and India, amongst other places.
The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare
Author : Arthur F Kinney
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2011-12-22
ISBN 10 : 9780191653193
Pages : 848 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (191 users)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare PDF or another Format written by Arthur F Kinney and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2011-12-22 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Situated within the Oxford Handbooks to Literature series, the group of Oxford Handbooks to Shakespeare are designed to record past and present investigations and renewed and revised judgments by both familiar and younger Shakespearean specialists. Each of these volumes is edited by one or more internationally distinguished Shakespeareans; together, they comprehensively survey the entire field. An essential resource for the study of Shakespeare, The Oxford Handbook to Shakespeare is edited by esteemed scholar Arthur Kinney and contains forty specially written essays. It provides fresh and imaginative readings of his plays and poems, reflects on the current state of Shakespeare Studies, and suggests the likely future directions it will take. The Handbook is divided into five sections: 'Texts' explores how Shakespeare wrote, who he collaborated with, the ways in which his works were transmitted, and the reactions of his early readers; 'Conditions' examines the economic, social, artistic, and linguistic forces at play on Shakespeare; 'Works' discusses the various stages of his career; 'Performances' is concerned with issues such as the reception of his plays, the theatre business, and film adaptations; and 'Current Speculations' includes essays on topics ranging from the role of philosophical thought and the influence of classical sources to the relevance of empire, technology, religion, and law. By covering the range of Shakespeare's work in his time and ours, this myriad-minded book deepens and enriches our understanding of the great poet and unparalleled playwright's accomplishments.
The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Comedy
Author : Heather Hirschfeld
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2018-09-06
ISBN 10 : 9780191043468
Pages : 592 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (191 users)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Comedy PDF or another Format written by Heather Hirschfeld and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-06 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Comedy offers critical and contemporary resources for studying Shakespeare's comic enterprises. It engages with perennial, yet still urgent questions raised by the comedies and looks at them from a range of new perspectives that represent the most recent methodological approaches to Shakespeare, genre, and early modern drama. Several chapters take up firmly established topics of inquiry such Shakespeare's source materials, gender and sexuality, hetero- and homoerotic desire, race, and religion, and they reformulate these topics in the materialist, formalist, phenomenological, or revisionist terms of current scholarship and critical debate. Others explore subjects that have only relatively recently become pressing concerns for sustained scholarly interrogation, such as ecology, cross-species interaction, and humoral theory. Some contributions, informed by increasingly sophisticated approaches to the material conditions and embodied experience of theatrical practice, speak to a resurgence of interest in performance, from Shakespeare's period through the first decades of the twenty-first century. Others still investigate distinct sets of plays from unexpected and often polemical angles, noting connections between the comedies under inventive, unpredicted banners such as the theology of adultery, early modern pedagogy, global exploration, or monarchical rule. All the chapters offer contemporary perspectives on the plays even as they gesture to critical traditions, and they illuminate as well as challenge some of our most cherished expectations about the ways in which Shakespearean comedy affects its audiences. The Handbook situates these approaches against the long history of criticism and provides a valuable overview of the most up-to-date work in the field.
Making Chaucer's Book of the Duchess
Author : Jamie C. Fumo
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Release Date : 2015-09-24
ISBN 10 : 9781783163489
Pages : 257 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (783 users)
Download or read book Making Chaucer's Book of the Duchess PDF or another Format written by Jamie C. Fumo and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2015-09-24 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making Chaucer’s Book of the Duchess: Textuality and Reception is the first comprehensive book-length study of Chaucer’s earliest major narrative poem and its reception. It provides a rigorous and critically balanced assimilation of the Book of the Duchess, the story of its reception and dissemination, and the major trends in its interpretive history into the fabric of twenty-first century Chaucer studies. Focusing on the construction and value of the Book of the Duchess as a book, this study explores Chaucer’s concern with acts of writing and the textual mediation of experience. At the same time, it contextualises Chaucer’s poem within his era’s broader concerns with authority, reading practices, and the vernacular. By yoking issues of creative and scholarly reception with those of book production and materiality, Jamie C. Fumo’s study innovatively highlights acts of collaboration stemming from the poem’s status as a textual, imaginative act.
The Oxford Handbook of Edmund Spenser
Author : Richard A. McCabe
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2010-10-28
ISBN 10 : 9780199227365
Pages : 832 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (199 users)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Edmund Spenser PDF or another Format written by Richard A. McCabe and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-10-28 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Edmund Spenser examines the entire canon of Spenser's work and the social and intellectual environments in which it was produced. It explores technical matters of style, language, and metre, the poet's use of sources and subtexts, and the reception of his work amongst editors, critics, writers, and visual artists.
The Oxford Handbook of William Wordsworth
Author : Richard Gravil
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2015-01-22
ISBN 10 : 9780191019647
Pages : 650 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (191 users)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of William Wordsworth PDF or another Format written by Richard Gravil and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-01-22 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of William Wordsworth deploys its forty-eight original essays, by an international team of scholar-critics, to present a stimulating account of Wordsworth's life and achievement and to map new directions in criticism. Nineteen essays explore the highlights of a long career systematically, giving special prominence to the lyric Wordsworth of Lyrical Ballads and the Poems in Two Volumes and to the blank verse poet of 'The Recluse'. Most of the other essays return to the poetry while exploring other dimensions of the life and work of the major Romantic poet. The result is a dialogic exploration of many major texts and problems in Wordsworth scholarship. This uniquely comprehensive handbook is structured so as to present, in turn, Wordsworth's life, career, and networks; aspects of the major lyrical and narrative poetry; components of 'The Recluse'; his poetical inheritance and his transformation of poetics; the variety of intellectual influences upon his work, from classical republican thought to modern science; his shaping of modern culture in such fields as gender, landscape, psychology, ethics, politics, religion and ecology; and his 19th- and 20th-century reception-most importantly by poets, but also in modern criticism and scholarship.
The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English
Author : Elaine Treharne
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2010-04-15
ISBN 10 : 9780191613593
Pages : 792 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (191 users)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English PDF or another Format written by Elaine Treharne and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of medieval literature has experienced a revolution in the last two decades, which has reinvigorated many parts of the discipline and changed the shape of the subject in relation to the scholarship of the previous generation. 'New' texts (laws and penitentials, women's writing, drama records), innovative fields and objects of study (the history of the book, the study of space and the body, medieval masculinities), and original ways of studying them (the Sociology of the Text, performance studies) have emerged. This has brought fresh vigour and impetus to medieval studies, and impacted significantly on cognate periods and areas. The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English brings together the insights of these new fields and approaches with those of more familiar texts and methods of study, to provide a comprehensive overview of the state of medieval literature today. It also returns to first principles in posing fundamental questions about the nature, scope, and significance of the discipline, and the directions that it might take in the next decade. The Handbook contains 44 newly commissioned essays from both world-leading scholars and exciting new scholarly voices. Topics covered range from the canonical genres of Saints' lives, sermons, romance, lyric poetry, and heroic poetry; major themes including monstrosity and marginality, patronage and literary politics, manuscript studies and vernacularity are investigated; and there are close readings of key texts, such as Beowulf, Wulf and Eadwacer, and Ancrene Wisse and key authors from Ælfric to Geoffrey Chaucer, Langland, and the Gawain Poet.
Chaucer's Italy
Author : Richard Owen
Publisher : Haus Publishing
Release Date : 2022-04-14
ISBN 10 : 9781909961845
Pages : 208 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (99 users)
Download or read book Chaucer's Italy PDF or another Format written by Richard Owen and published by Haus Publishing. This book was released on 2022-04-14 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the influence of Italy and Italians on Chaucer’s life and writing. Geoffrey Chaucer might be considered the quintessential English writer, but he drew much of his inspiration and material from Italy. In fact, without the tremendous influence of Francesco Petrarch and Giovanni Boccaccio (among others), the author of The Canterbury Tales might never have assumed his place as the “father” of English literature. Nevertheless, Richard Owen’s Chaucer’s Italy begins in London, where the poet dealt with Italian merchants in his roles as court diplomat and customs official. Next Owen takes us, via Chaucer’s capture at the siege of Rheims, to his involvement in arranging the marriage of King Edward III’s son Lionel in Milan and his missions to Genoa and Florence. By scrutinizing his encounters with Petrarch, Boccaccio, and the mercenary knight John Hawkwood—and with vividly evocative descriptions of the Arezzo, Padua, Florence, Certaldo, and Milan that Chaucer would have encountered—Owen reveals the deep influence of Italy’s people and towns on Chaucer’s poems and stories. Much writing on Chaucer depicts a misleadingly parochial figure, but as Owen’s enlightening short study of Chaucer’s Italian years makes clear, the poet’s life was internationally eventful. The consequences have made the English canon what it is today.
Daily Life of Women in Chaucer's England
Author : Jennifer C. Edwards
Publisher : ABC-CLIO
Release Date : 2022-04-30
ISBN 10 : 9781440870552
Pages : 245 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (44 users)
Download or read book Daily Life of Women in Chaucer's England PDF or another Format written by Jennifer C. Edwards and published by ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 2022-04-30 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The late medieval period in England was one rich with opportunities for women, who played fundamental roles in family businesses as well as in the peasant community and economy, and who wrote letters, created autobiographies, and documented their spiritual journeys. Their lives fit into a pattern of seasonal celebrations and rituals shaped, for the majority of women, by work, marriage, and motherhood. The text further considers status distinctions, then shifts to experiences that affected all women, such as the ritual year, disease, food and drink, sex or celibacy, and religion. By providing an overview of the history of English women and gender in the 14th and 15th centuries, the book provides a background suitable for students as well as for academics beginning work in this field.
The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Medievalism
Author : Joanne Parker
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2020-06-29
ISBN 10 : 9780199669509
Pages : 709 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (199 users)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Medievalism PDF or another Format written by Joanne Parker and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-06-29 with total page 709 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the expertise of more than 40 international contributors and covering literature, fine art, architecture, religion, politics, and social change, this Handbook examines the pervasive Victorian obsession with the culture of the Middle Ages.
Chaucer and Fame
Author : Isabel Davis
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Release Date : 2015
ISBN 10 : 9781843844075
Pages : 266 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (843 users)
Download or read book Chaucer and Fame PDF or another Format written by Isabel Davis and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2015 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The questions of fame and reputation are central to Chaucer's writings; the essays here discuss their various treatments and manifestations.
The Oxford Handbook of Tudor Drama
Author : Thomas Betteridge
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2012-07-19
ISBN 10 : 9780199566471
Pages : 709 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (199 users)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Tudor Drama PDF or another Format written by Thomas Betteridge and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-19 with total page 709 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of Tudor drama that sees the long 16th century from the accession of Henry Tudor to the death of Elizabeth as a whole, taking in the drama of the 'mystery plays' and the early work of Shakespeare. It is an account of current scholarship and an introduction to the complexity of Tudor drama.
