“…The Canterbury tales. Español…”

“…The Canterbury tales. Español…”

Materias:

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Geoffrey Chaucer and the fourteenth century -- The Book of the duchess -- The House of fame -- The Parliament of fowls -- The Legend of good women -- Troilus and Criseyde -- Troilus and Criseyde (continued) -- The general prolog of the "Canterbury Tales" -- The Canterbury pilgrims -- The Canterbury pilgrims (continued) -- The Canterbury pilgrims (continued)…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction -- Mutual masochism and the hermaphroditic courtly lady in Chaucer's Franklin's tale -- "For to be sworne bretheren til they deye": satirizing queer brotherhood in the Chaucerian corpus -- Necrotic erotics in Chaucerian romance: loving women, loving death, and destroying civilization in The Knight's tale and Troilus and Criseyde -- Queer families in Tthe Canterbury tales: fathers, children, and abusive erotics -- Chaucer's (anti-) erotic god -- Epilogue: Chaucer's avian amorousness…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- [1] The Argument of the Book : Medieval Writing and Modern Theory -- [2] The Semiology of Space in the Middle Ages: On Manuscript Painting, Sacred Architecture, Scholasticism, and Music -- [3] The Language of Mythology : On Medieval Grammar and Hermeneutics -- [4] Dante's Liber Occultorum and the Structure of Allegory in the Commedia -- [5] The Origin of Language Reconsidered : Chaucer's House of Fame -- [6] Problems of Misreading: The "Prologue" to The Legend of Good Women -- [7] I nterpreting the "Naked Text" in the "General Prologue" to The Canterbury Tales -- [8] Retrospect: On Historical Change -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX…”

“…Ranging from the religious to the erotic, featured designs include images inspired by The Song of Songs, The Canterbury Tales, and The Four Gospels. A feast for the eyes and an important and accessible reference…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Horace's Ars poetica in the medieval classroom and beyond : the horizons of ancient precept / Rita Copeland -- Latin composition lessons, Piers Plowman, and the Piers Plowman tradition / Wendy Scase -- Langland translating / Traugott Lawler -- Escaping the whirling wicker : Ricardian poetics and narrative voice in the Canterbury tales / Katherine Zieman -- Langland's literary syntax, or Anima as an alternative to Latin grammar / Katharine Breen -- Speculum vitae and the form of Piers Plowman / Ralph Hanna -- Petrarch's pleasures, Chaucer's revulsions, and the aesthetics of renunciation in late-medieval culture / Andrew Galloway -- Chaucer's history-effect / Steven Justice -- Seigneurial poetics, or the poacher, the prikasour, the hunt and its oeuvre / Frank Grady -- Agency and the poetics of sensation in Gower's Mirour de l'omme / Maura Nolan -- Genre and source in Troilus and Criseyde / Lee Patterson -- The silence of Langland's study : matter, invisibility, instruction / D. …”

“…Chaucer's Comic Providence presents readings of five of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales that dramatize sexual division and the lack of rapport between the sexes. …”

“…The presence of so many fabliaux in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales is intriguing in its own right, given the fact that there are no real fabliaux in Middle English befor Chaucer. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Byatt's Sugar and Other StoriesCrossing the Line1; Gender, Economics and Morality: Sexuality and Ageing as Depicted in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales; From Childhood to Old Age with a Sigh in Julian Barnes' Staring at the Sun; Breaking the Last Taboo: The Aging Female Protagonist in Literature1; "Money, for the night is coming": Gendered Economies of Aging in the Early Novels of Jean Rhys1…”

“…Exploring two related medieval justifications of literary pleasure-one finding hygienic or therapeutic value in entertainment, and another stressing the psychological and ethical rewards of taking time out from work in order to refresh oneself-Glending Olson reveals that, contrary to much recent opinion, many medieval writers and thinkers accepted delight and enjoyment as valid goals of literature without always demanding moral profit as well.Drawing on a vast amount of primary material, including contemporary medical manuscripts and printed texts, Olson discusses theatrics, humanist literary criticism, prologues to romances and fabliaux, and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. He offers an extended examination of the framing story of Boccaccio's Decameron. …”

“…Its best known examples outside of Iberia are Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales , Boccaccio’s Decameron , and the Thousand and One Nights . …”

“…The volume shows how a wide variety of genres and works are deeply engaged with responses to the war, from women’s visionary writing by figures like Catherine of Siena to anonymous lyric poetry, from Christine de Pizan’s Book of the City of Ladies to Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Troilus and Criseyde ; The Canterbury tales / Geoffrey Chaucer -- 20 . Institutes of the Christian Religion / John Calvin ; translated by Henry Beveridge -- 21 . …”