Life of Geoffrey Chaucer - A Critical Biography

Informationen zum Autor Derek Pearsall is Gurney Professor of English at Harvard University and was Professor and Co-Director of the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of York! 1965-85. His numerous publications include John Lydgate (1970)! Old English and Middle English Poetry (1977)! The Canterbury Tales: A Critical Study (1985) and An Annotated Critical Bibliography of Langland (1990). Klappentext This important new critical biography traces what is know of Geoffrey Chaucer's personal life while exploring the fascinating relationship between the man of affairs and the poet. He lived during a period which saw not only the deposition of Richard II in 1399 but also the emergence of a new English poetry and a brilliant, if short-lived, English cultural renaissance. Derek Pearsall shows that Chaucer's immersion in his troubled times was more intimately expressed in his work than is admitted by traditional accounts. The 'accommodations' of his public life are seen as being of a piece with the habitual irony, the studied elusiveness of a poetry, in which almost everything that could be construed as comment on contemporary events is avoided. Zusammenfassung This important new critical biography traces in carefully considered detail what is known of Geoffrey Chaucer's personal life while exploring the fascinating relationship between the man of affairs! who made so many 'improvisations and accommodations' to ensure his own survival! and the poet. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of figures and illustrations. List of Abbreviations. Introduction: Writing a life of Chaucer. 1. Beginnings (c.1340-1360). 2. Early Career (The 1360s). 3. Advances (The 1370s). 4. Fame (1380-1386). 5. Reversals! New Beginnings (1386-1391). 6. Renewal (The 1390s). Epilogue. Appendix I The Chaucer Portraits. Notes. List of Short Titles and Bibliography. Index.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: D Pearsall, Derek Pearsall, Derek (Harvard University) Pearsall, Pearsall Derek
• Edition: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 10.11.1994
• EAN: 9781557866653
• ISBN: 978-1-55786-665-3
• Pages: 380
• Thèmes: Blackwell Critical Biographies; Wiley Blackwell Critical Biographies
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature > Linguistique et littérature anglaises; Biography: general, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets