The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Conklin Akbari, Suzanne; Simpson, James

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 671
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780191649387
• Artikelnr.: 59949110

Autorenporträt

Suzanne Conklin Akbari is Director of the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto, and was educated at Johns Hopkins and Columbia. She has written books on optics and allegory (Seeing Through the Veil) and European views of Islam and the Orient (Idols in the East), and edited collections on travel literature (Marco Polo), Mediterranean Studies (A Sea of Languages), and somatic histories (The Ends of the Body). James Simpson is Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor of English at Harvard University. He was formerly Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English at the University of Cambridge. His most recent books are Reform and Cultural Revolution, being volume 2 in the Oxford English Literary History (Oxford University Press, 2002); Burning to Read: English Fundamentalism and its Reformation Opponents (Harvard University Press, 2007), and Under the Hammer: Iconoclasm in the Anglo-American Tradition (Oxford University Press, 2010).

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction: Placing the Past
* Part 1:Chaucer in the Mediterranean Frame
* 1: Peter Brown: Chaucer's Travels for the Court
* 2: Matthew Giancarlo: Chaucer and Contemporary Courts of Law and
Politics: House, Law, Game
* 3: Jonathan Hsy: At Home in the 'Countour-Hous': Inhabiting Space on
Chaucer's Polyglot Dwellings
* 4: Kellie Robertson: Labour and Time
* 5: Alexandra Gillespie: Books and Booklessness in Chaucer's England
* 6: Martha Rust: The Role of the Scribe: Genius of the Book
* 7: James Simpson: 'Gaufred, deere maister soverain': Chaucer and
Rhetoric
* Part 2: Chaucer in the Mediterranean Frame
* 8: Steven F. Kruger: Anti-Judaism / Anti-Semitism and the Structures
of Chaucerian Thought
* 9: Ruth Nisse: 'O Hebraic People!' English Jews and the
Twelfth-Century Literary Scene
* 10: Karla Mallette: The Hazards of Narration: Frame-Tale Technologies
and the Oriental Tale
* 11: Suzanne M. Yeager: Fictions of Espionage: Performing Pilgrim and
Crusader Identities in the Age of Chaucer
* Part 3: Chaucer in the European Frame
* 12: Jamie C. Fumo: Ovid: Artistic Identity and Intertextuality
* 13: Marilynn Desmond: Chaucer and the Textualities of Troy
* 14: David F. Hult: The Romance of the Rose: Allegory and Lyric Voice
* 15: Deborah McGrady: Challenging the Patronage Paradigm:
Late-Medieval Francophone Writers and the Poet-Prince Relationship
* 16: Martin Eisner: Dante and the Author of the Decameron: Love,
Literature, and Authority in Boccaccio
* 17: Warren Ginsberg: Boccaccio's Early Romances
* 18: Ronald Martinez: Chaucer's Petrarch: 'enlumnyed ben they'
* 19: David L. Pike: Dante and the Medieval City: How the Dead Live
* 20: Suzanne Conklin Akbari: Historiography: Nicholas Trevet's
Transnational History
* Part 4: Philosophy and Science in the Universities
* 21: Rita Copeland: Grammar and Rhetoric c. 1100-c. 1400
* 22: Fabienne Michelet and Martin Pickavé: Philosophy, Logic, and
Nominalism
* 23: Eleanor Johnson: The Poetics of Trespass and Duress: Chaucer and
the Fifth Inn of Court
* 24: E. Ruth Harvey: Medicine and Science in Chaucer's Day
* 25: Edith Dudley Sylla: Logic and Mathematics. The Oxford Calculators
* Part 5: Christian Doctrine and Religious Heterodoxy
* 26: Stephen E. Lahey: Wycliffism and its After-Effects
* 27: Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, Melissa Mayus, and Katie Bugyis:
Anticlericalism, Inter-clerical Polemic and Theological Vernaculars
* 28: Denise Despres: Chaucer as Image-Maker
* Part 6: The Chaucerian Afterlife
* 29: Jeffrey Jerome Cohen: Geographesis, or the Afterlife of Britain
in Chaucer
* 30: T. Matthew N. McCabe: Vernacular Authorship and Public Poetry:
John Gower
* 31: Anthony Bale: Lydgate's Chaucer
* 32: Jonathan Newman: Dialogism in Hoccleve
* 33: Iain MacLeod Higgins: Old Books and New Beginnings North of
Chaucer: Revisionary Reframings in the Kingis Quair and the
Testament of Cresseid