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Author: William T. Rossiter
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 1843842157
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First full study of Chaucer's readings and translations of Petrarch suggests a far greater influence than has hitherto been accepted.
Author: Helen Fulton
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Published: 2021-01-15
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 1786836793
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Chaucerian scholarship has long been intrigued by the nature and consequences of Chaucer’s exposure to Italian culture during his professional visits to Italy in the 1370s. In this volume, leading scholars take a new and more holistic view of Chaucer’s engagement with Italian cultural practice, moving beyond the traditional ‘sources and analogues’ approach to reveal the varied strands of Italian literature, art, politics and intellectual life that permeate Chaucer’s work. Each chapter examines from different angles links between Chaucerian texts and Italian intellectual models, including poetics, chorography, visual art, classicism, diplomacy and prophecy. Echoes of Petrarch, Dante and Boccaccio reverberate throughout the book, across a rich and diverse landscape of Italian cultural legacies. Together, the chapters cover a wide range of theory and reference, while sharing a united understanding of the rich impact of Italian culture on Chaucer’s narrative art.
Author: Suzanne Conklin Akbari
Publisher: Oxford Handbooks
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 689
ISBN-13: 0199582653
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This handbook addresses Chaucer's poetry in the context of several disciplines, including late medieval philosophy and science, Mediterranean culture, comparative European literature, vernacular theology and popular devotion.
Author: Thomas Roche
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2005-12-01
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 014193672X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Franceso Petrarch (1304-1374), creator of the sonnet form, remained for more than three hundred years the most influential poet in Europe, his works more widely read than even those of Dante. This collection contains English language versions of his poems from across six centuries, in a wide variety of translations and reinterpretations. Spanning the Trionfi series and the Canzoniere - Petrarch's empassioned sonnet-sequence concerning his beloved Laura - it also includes great English poems influenced by Petrarch. From Chaucer's early adaptation of a Petrarchan sonnet in Troilus and Criseyde to the sixteenth century translations by the Earl of Surrey, Byron's mocking consideration of the Canzoniere in Don Juan and Ezra Pound's parody Silet, all provide a unique insight into the significance of the founder of the European lyric tradition.
Author: Geoffrey Chaucer
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2018-09-21
Total Pages: 762
ISBN-13: 3734040655
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Reproduction of the original: Chaucer ́s Works by Geoffrey Chaucer
Author: Ian Johnson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-07-11
Total Pages: 499
ISBN-13: 1107035643
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Provides a rich and varied reference resource, illuminating the different contexts for Chaucer and his work.
Author: Matthew Reynolds
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2011-09-29
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 0191619183
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Poetry is supposed to be untranslatable. But many poems in English are also translations: Pope's Iliad, Pound's Cathay, and Dryden's Aeneis are only the most obvious examples. The Poetry of Translation explodes this paradox, launching a new theoretical approach to translation, and developing it through readings of English poem-translations, both major and neglected, from Chaucer and Petrarch to Homer and Logue. The word 'translation' includes within itself a picture: of something being carried across. This image gives a misleading idea of goes on in any translation; and poets have been quick to dislodge it with other metaphors. Poetry translation can be a process of opening; of pursuing desire, or succumbing to passion; of taking a view, or zooming in; of dying, metamorphosing, or bringing to life. These are the dominant metaphors that have jostled the idea of 'carrying across' in the history of poetry translation into English; and they form the spine of Reynolds's discussion. Where do these metaphors originate? Wide-ranging literary historical trends play their part; but a more important factor is what goes on in the poem that is being translated. Dryden thinks of himself as 'opening' Virgil's Aeneid because he thinks Virgil's Aeneid opens fate into world history; Pound tries to being Propertius to life because death and rebirth are central to Propertius's poems. In this way, translation can continue the creativity of its originals. The Poetry of Translation puts the translation of poetry back at the heart of English literature, allowing the many great poem-translations to be read anew.
Author: Warren Ginsberg
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780472112340
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Explores provocative questions about the dynamics of cross-cultural translation and the formation of tradition
Author: Marion Turner
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2020-09-22
Total Pages: 626
ISBN-13: 0691210152
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"More than any other canonical English writer, Geoffrey Chaucer lived and worked at the centre of political life--yet his poems are anything but conventional. Edgy, complicated, and often dark, they reflect a conflicted world, and their astonishing diversity and innovative language earned Chaucer renown as the father of English literature. Marion Turner, however, reveals him as a great European writer and thinker. To understand his accomplishment, she reconstructs in unprecedented detail the cosmopolitan world of Chaucer's adventurous life, focusing on the places and spaces that fired his imagination. Uncovering important new information about Chaucer's travels, private life, and the early circulation of his writings, this innovative biography documents a series of vivid episodes, moving from the commercial wharves of London to the frescoed chapels of Florence and the kingdom of Navarre, where Christians, Muslims, and Jews lived side by side. The narrative recounts Chaucer's experiences as a prisoner of war in France, as a father visiting his daughter's nunnery, as a member of a chaotic Parliament, and as a diplomat in Milan, where he encountered the writings of Dante and Boccaccio. At the same time, the book offers a comprehensive exploration of Chaucer's writings, taking the reader to the Troy of Troilus and Criseyde, the gardens of the dream visions, and the peripheries and thresholds of The Canterbury Tales. 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 Tales." -- Publisher's description.
Author: Frederick M. Biggs
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 1843844753
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A major and original contribution to the debate as to Chaucer's use and knowledge of Boccaccio, finding a new source for the Shipman's Tale.
