The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer

NOTE EDITORE

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.

SOMMARIO

1 - Chaucer's Travels for the Court2 - Chaucer and Contemporary Courts of Law and Politics: House, Law, Game3 - At Home in the 'Countour-Hous': Inhabiting Space on Chaucer's Polyglot Dwellings4 - Labour and Time5 - Books and Booklessness in Chaucer's England6 - The Role of the Scribe: Genius of the Book7 - 'Gaufred, deere maister soverain': Chaucer and Rhetoric8 - Anti-Judaism / Anti-Semitism and the Structures of Chaucerian Thought9 - 'O Hebraic People!' English Jews and the Twelfth-Century Literary Scene10 - The Hazards of Narration: Frame-Tale Technologies and the Oriental Tale11 - Fictions of Espionage: Performing Pilgrim and Crusader Identities in the Age of Chaucer12 - Ovid: Artistic Identity and Intertextuality13 - Chaucer and the Textualities of Troy14 - The Romance of the Rose: Allegory and Lyric Voice15 - Challenging the Patronage Paradigm: Late-Medieval Francophone Writers and the Poet-Prince Relationship16 - Dante and the Author of the Decameron: Love, Literature, and Authority in Boccaccio17 - Boccaccio's Early Romances18 - Chaucer's Petrarch: 'enlumnyed ben they'19 - Dante and the Medieval City: How the Dead Live20 - Historiography: Nicholas Trevet's Transnational History21 - Grammar and Rhetoric c. 1100-c. 140022 - Philosophy, Logic, and Nominalism23 - The Poetics of Trespass and Duress: Chaucer and the Fifth Inn of Court,24 - Medicine and Science in Chaucer's Day25 - Logic and Mathematics. The Oxford Calculators26 - Wycliffism and its After-Effects27 - Anticlericalism', Inter-clerical Polemic and Theological Vernaculars28 - Chaucer as Image-Maker29 - Geographesis, or the Afterlife of Britain in Chaucer30 - Vernacular Authorship and Public Poetry: John Gower31 - Lydgate's Chaucer32 - Dialogism in Hoccleve33 - Old Books and New Beginnings North of Chaucer: Revisionary Reframings in the Kingis Quair and the Testament of Cresseid

AUTORE

Suzanne Conklin Akbari is Medieval Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, 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).

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780199582655
• Collana: Oxford Handbooks
• Dimensioni: 249 x 42.1 x 178 mm Ø 1338 gr
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Illustration Notes: 6 Illustrations
• Pagine Arabe: 678