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Free Download Harold Bloom, "Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales (Bloom’s Guides)"
English | 2008 | pages: 119 | ISBN: 0791097927 | PDF | 1,1 mb
The Canterbury Tales was the first great poem in the English language, and it remains a favorite among students and scholars to this day. Ideal for research, this new title in the Bloom’s Guides series includes broad-ranging excerpts from interpretive essays that provide expert commentary on this timeless work. It also features an introduction by master scholar Harold Bloom, a bibliography, and an index.

Free Download Geoffrey Chaucer: Unveiling the Merry Bard (Medieval Lives) by Mary Flannery
English | July 30, 2024 | ISBN: 1789148634 | 224 pages | MOBI | 3.70 Mb
A new critical biography of medieval England’s most famous poet.

Free Download Craig E. Bertolet, "The Routledge Companion to Global Chaucer "
English | ISBN: 1032146850 | 2024 | 500 pages | PDF | 9 MB
The Routledge Companion to Global Chaucer offers 40 chapters by leading scholars working with contemporary, theoretical, and textual approaches to the poetry and prose of Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340-1400) in a global context. This volume is an ideal starting point for beginners, offering contemporary perspectives on Chaucer both geographically and intellectually, including:

Free Download Geoffrey Chaucer: Unveiling the Merry Bard (Medieval Lives) by Mary Flannery
English | July 30th, 2024 | ISBN: 1789148634 | 224 pages | True EPUB | 15.30 MB
A new critical biography of medieval England’s most famous poet.

Free Download Jamie C. Fumo, "Making Chaucer’s "Book of the Duchess": Textuality and Reception "
English | ISBN: 178316347X | 2016 | 272 pages | EPUB | 570 KB
Making Chaucer’s Book of the Duchess is the first comprehensive book-length study of Chaucer’s earliest major narrative poem and its reception. It provides a rigorous and critically balanced assimilation of the Book of the Duchess, the story of its reception and dissemination, and the major trends in its interpretive history. Focusing on the construction and value of the Book of the Duchess as a book, Jamie C. Fumo explores Chaucer’s concern with acts of writing and the textual mediation of experience. At the same time, Fumo places Chaucer’s poem within the context of his era’s broader concerns with authority, reading practices, and the vernacular.

Free Download The Canterbury Tales (Oxford Guides to Chaucer), 3rd Edition by Helen Cooper
English | November 30, 2023 | ISBN: 0198821425, 0198878788 | True EPUB/PDF | 512 pages | 1.3/2.8 MB
Recognised on its first appearance as the most comprehensive single-volume guide to The Canterbury Tales yet produced, this third edition brings the Tales up to date in relation both to recent criticism and to the changing expectations of modern readers. The Guide provide tale-by-tale information on textual variations and sources, together with a readable commentary on thematic issues, structure, style, generic affiliations, and the contribution of each tale to the work as a whole. It concludes with a survey of the many imitations of the tales down to the early seventeenth century. This new edition also takes account of the latest scholarship, theory, and criticism and new interpretations of the tales, including such matters as gender identity, consent, and racial and religious difference.

Free Download Sarah Breckenridge Wright, "Mobility and Identity in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales "
English | ISBN: 1843845520 | 2020 | 218 pages | PDF | 9 MB
The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories told by pilgrims en route to Canterbury; but how does their movement shape the world around them, and how are they shaped by their world? This volume seeks to answer these questions by exploring expressions of mobility in Chaucer’s frame narrative and tales. Combining the theoretical and historical methods of literary analysis with the interpretive tools of cultural geography and ecocriticism, it argues that movement is the medium through which identity is performed in The Canterbury Tales. This unique interdisciplinary approach shows how physical and ideological mobilities shape and are shaped by geographical, ecological, sociopolitical, and gendered identities. As human and more-than-human bodies cross borders and dissolve boundaries, they contribute to a fluid, permeable, and hybrid world that challenges traditional perceptions of boundedness, security, and fixity. By examining this kinesis alongside contexts including medieval bridge building, economics, and biology, this book reveals a rich exchange between word and world. In the end,

Free Download Megan E. Murton, "Chaucer’s Prayers: Writing Christian and Pagan Devotion "
English | ISBN: 1843845598 | 2020 | 190 pages | PDF | 4 MB
A close examination of the prayers in Chaucer’s poetry sheds significant new light on his poetic practice.

Free Download Susan Crane, "Gender and Romance in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales"
English | 2016 | pages: 242 | ISBN: 0691634963, 0691606145 | PDF | 11,5 mb
In this fresh look at Chaucer’s relation to English and French romances of the late Middle Ages, Crane shows that Chaucer’s depictions of masculinity and femininity constitute an extensive and sympathetic response to the genre. For Chaucer, she proposes, gender is the defining concern of romance. As the foundational narratives of courtship, romances participate in the late medieval elaboration of new meanings around heterosexual identity. Crane draws on feminist and genre theory to argue that Chaucer’s profound interest in the cultural construction of masculinity and femininity arises in large part from his experience of romance.