Chaucerian Dream Visions And Complaints

Author : Dana M Symons
Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
ISBN 13 : 1580444067
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chaucerian Dream Visions and Complaints written by Dana M Symons and published by Medieval Institute Publications. This book was released on 2004-11-01 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On several counts, one particular collection of French lyrics made in France in the late fourteenth century, University of Pennsylvania MS 15, is the most likely repository of Chaucer's French poems. It is the largest manuscript anthology extant of fourteenth-century French lyrics in the formes fixes (balade, rondeaux, virelay, lay, and five-stanza chanson) with by far the largest number of works of unknown authorship. The known authors represented in the manuscript and the texts themselves have notable associations with England and with Chaucer. And intriguingly there are fifteen lyrics each headed by the initials Ch, very likely indications of authorship, neatly inserted between rubric and text. . . . [The] rubrics, together with other substantial manuscript evidence and the intrinsic worth of the poems, make them easily the best candidates among extant French lyrics for Chaucer's authorship, appropriate representatives of his French work. - from the Introduction

Author : Michael St John
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135195251X
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chaucer’s Dream Visions written by Michael St John and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chaucer used the dream device to engage with the work of French and Italian authors and to explore the philosophical content of their poetry. His four dream visions therefore represent an important conduit through which the influence of European writers was received into English, enabling a profound transition in the way in which the 'self' was conceptualized in medieval courtly literature. Chaucer's Dream Visions is the first book length study to examine the poet's considered use of Aristotelian psychology to describe the mind of the courtly subject in its social context. The study shows that by drawing upon Aristotelian psychology, derived from his reading of Boethius, Dante, and the poets of the French court, Chaucer was able to articulate precisely those aspects of the courtly identity that are determined by language and empirical experience, and those which are transcendent of this determinism. A detailed engagement with the literature, language, and behaviour of the court therefore takes place in the dream visions, which are a genuine exploration of individual subjectivity in its social context. The author of this volume demonstrates that the motivation for this exploration is a product of Chaucer's Christian beliefs and philosophical awareness. Chaucer's Dream Visions thus constitutes a major contribution to the debate concerning distinctions between medieval and early modern culture.

Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780393925883
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dream Visions and Other Poems written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by W W Norton & Company Incorporated. This book was released on 2007 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Norton Critical Edition presents Chaucer's four dream visions and selected shorter poems and is suitable for both beginning and advanced students.

Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : SMK Books
ISBN 13 : 9781515428534
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chaucer's Dream Visions written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by SMK Books. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141959894
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love Visions written by Geoffrey Chaucer and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2006-05-25 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning Chaucer's working life, these four poems build on the medieval convention of 'love visions' - poems inspired by dreams, woven into rich allegories about the rituals and emotions of courtly love. In The Book of the Duchess, the most traditional of the four, the dreamer meets a widower who has loved and lost the perfect lady, and The House of Fame describes a dream journey in which the poet meets with classical divinities. Witty, lively and playful, The Parliament of Birds details an encounter with the birds of the world in the Garden of Nature as they seek to meet their mates, while The Legend of Good Women sees Chaucer being censured by the God of Love, and seeking to make amends, for writing poems that depict unfaithful women. Together, the four create a marvellously witty, lively and humane self-portrait of the poet.

Author : Kathryn L. Lynch
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9780859916004
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chaucer's Philosophical Visions written by Kathryn L. Lynch and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2000 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New readings of Chaucer's dream visions, demonstrating his philosophical interests and learning.

Author : Constance B. Hieatt
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3111342506
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The realism of dream visions written by Constance B. Hieatt and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "The realism of dream visions".

Author : A. C. Spearing
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521211949
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medieval Dream-Poetry written by A. C. Spearing and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1976-11-11 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1976 book is a study of the medieval English dream-poem set against classical and medieval visionary and religious writings.

Author : William A. Quinn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781138864399
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Chaucer's Dream Visions and Shorter Poems written by William A. Quinn and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-17 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : J. Stephen Russell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
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Download or read book The English Dream Vision written by J. Stephen Russell and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: