25. Renan, “What Is a Nation?” 11. 26. Bhabha, “DissemiNation,” 310. 27. Goodrich, Languages ofLaw, 42, 50; see also Hornsby, “A Sergeant of the Lawe,” 128–29. 28. Brundage, Medieval Canon Law, 72, describes the powerful reach of Roman ...
Tr16 Benson C. David. '“O nyce world”: What Chaucer Really Found in Guido delle Colonne's History of Troy,' ... Ferdinandus Meister (Leipzig 1873) and Dictys Cretensis ephemeridos belli Troiani libri, ed. Werner Eisenhut (Leipzig 1958).
Best known for The Canterbury Tales, which recounted the stories of 23 pilgrims assembled at the Tabard Inn at Southbard.
The first seven lines make a good example of what I might call a 'wave' digression: And so bifel that ones in a Lente — So often tymes I to my gossyb wente, For evere yet I loved to be gay, And for to walke in March, Averill, and May, ...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. On the war during Chaucer's earlier life, see Clifford J. Rogers (2000). War Cruel and Sharp: English Strategy under Edward III, 1327–1360. Woodbridge: Boydell, supplemented by Clifford J. Rogers ...
'Embodiments of men's projected needs' is a phrase from CATHERINE A. MACKINNON'S pithy article, 'Feminism, Marxism, Method, and the State', in Feminist Theory: A Critique of Ideology, ed. Nannerl O. Keohane, Michelle Z. Rosaldo and ...
... 217 Scattergood, V. J. 109, 212, 216 Schibanoff, Susan 218 Schless, Howard 215 Schmidt, A. V. C. 14, 212 Schricker, Gale C. 220 ... 216 Webb, H. J. 216 Wetherbee, Winthrop 215, 217 Wife of Bath 52, 55-7, 60, 205-6 Wimsatt, James 1.
For , in drawing the latter , Chaucer cannot have forgotten that other Ploughman whom Langland's poem had identified with Him for whose sake Chaucer's poor workman laboured for his poor neighbours , with the readiness always shown by ...
His lodger was Nicholas, a poor arts student, quite a charmer, who had turned to astrology to make a living. John the carpenter had recently married a girl of eighteen whom he loved more than his life but kept under his jealous eye: ...
Johnson, Andrew James. 'Ekphrasis in the Knight's Tale.' In Rethinking the New Medievalism, edited by R. Howard Bloch, Alison Calhoun, Jacqueline Cerquiglini- Toulet, Joachim Küpper, and Jeanette Patterson, 181–97.
On the contrary, this book shows how Chaucer, specifically the Canterbury Tales, has been radically and excitingly 'opened up' by feminist, Lacanian, Bakhtinian, deconstructive, semiotic and anthropological theories to name but a few.
Thompson , N. S. Chaucer , Boccaccio , and the Debate of Love : A Comparative Study of the “ Decameron ” and the “ Canterbury Tales . ” Oxford : Clarendon Press , 1996 . Wallace , David . Chaucer and the Early Writings of Boccaccio .
By exploring the places Chaucer visited, the buildings he inhabited, the books he read, and the art and objects he saw, this landmark biography tells the extraordinary story of how a wine merchant's son became the poet of The Canterbury ...
Chaucer
This introductory guide to Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales' examines the social diversity of Chaucer's pilgrims, the stylistic range of their tales and the psychological richness of their interaction.
Chaucer - The Prologue, the Knightes Tale, the Nonne Preestes Tale from the Canterbury tales is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1889.
Reproduction of the original.
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"This text combines general essays and contextual information with detailed readings of specific Chaucerian texts.
Originally published in 1968. A critical interpretation of Chaucer's narrative poetry which concentrates on three major groupings - the early love-visions, the ‘tragedye’ of Troilus and Criseyde, and the Canterbury Tales.