The Shaping of English Poetry - Volume IV: Essays on 'The Battle of Maldon', Chrétien de Troyes, Dante, 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' and Chaucer

ISBN-13: 9783034317245 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 320 str.

Morgan, Gerald

Opis

This fourth volume of essays under the title The Shaping of English Poetry consolidates the work of the previous three volumes. Ranging from The Battle of Maldon to The Canterbury Tales, it provides a range of fascinating insights into the great subjects of English literature in the medieval period.

Spis treści

CONTENTS: The Battle of Maldon: The Commemoration of an Heroic Sacrifice - The Conflict of Love and Chivalry in Le Chevalier de la Charrete - The Movement of Love in the Interior Senses and in the Intellect: An Explanation of Purgatorio, XVIII.22-24 - The Goodness of Sir Gawain in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - Nature and the Bird-Debate in the Parliament of Fowls - Chaucer's Tellers and Tales and the Design of the Canterbury Tales - The Campaigns of Chaucer's Knight - Chaucer's Knight's Tale: The Book of the Duke - The Grand Design of the Monk's Tale - The Function of Rhetoric in the Nun's Priest's Tale.

O autorze

Gerald Morgan was a Meyricke Exhibitioner at Jesus College, Oxford, and holds a DPhil from the University of Oxford. He was formerly a Senior Lecturer and Fellow in the School of English at Trinity College Dublin and is now Research Director of the Chaucer in Context Research Group of the Trinity Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. His publications include Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the Idea of Righteousness (1991), The Tragic Argument of Troilus and Criseyde (2005), The Shaping of English Poetry: Essays on «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight», Langland, Chaucer and Spenser (Peter Lang, 2010), The Shaping of English Poetry, Volume II: Essays on «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight», Langland and Chaucer (Peter Lang, 2013), The Shaping of English Poetry, Volume III: Essays on «Beowulf», Dante, «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight», Langland, Chaucer and Spenser (Peter Lang, 2013) and the edited volume Chaucer in Context: A Golden Age of English Poetry (Peter Lang, 2012).