Chaucer and the French Tradition: A Study in Style and Meaning - Softcover

Muscatine, Charles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520009088 ISBN 13: 9780520009080

Verlag: University of California Press, 1965

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Book by Muscatine Charles

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"No on interested in Chaucer can afford to omit this book, which places his work so firmly in its European background."--"English

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Chaucer and the French Tradition, first published in 1957, is notable among modern studies of Chaucer for its attention to the importance of style. The author offers first an analysis of the two dominant traditions of style in the French literature on which Chaucer's poetry is based: the courtly, and the "bourgeois" or realistic. He then studies the stylistic character of the three important tarly poems, arguing that Chaucer's development was not a revolt from convention to realism, but rather a progressive mastery of borh methods simultanrously. Through his style, Chaucer is thus seen to be confronting the central problem of late medieval culture: the combination of the mundane and the transcendental, the realistic and the idealistic, the natural and the supernatural. Chaucer's solution is found in the ironic balance of "Troilus and Criseyde" and in the mixed style of the "Canterbury Tales."

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• Verlag: University of California Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1965
• ISBN 10: 0520009088
• ISBN 13: 9780520009080
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 294