Routledge Revivals: Chaucer, Langland, and the Creative Imagination (1980) Routledge Revivals Series
Auteur : Aers David
First published in 1980, this study of two renowned later fourteenth century English poets, Chaucer and Langland, concentrates on some major and representative aspects of their work. Aers shows that, in contrast to the mass conventional writing of the period, which was happy to accept and propagate traditional ideologies, Chaucer and Langland were preoccupied with actual conflicts, strains, and developments in received ideologies and social practices. He demonstrates that they were genuinely exploratory, and created work which actively questioned dominant ideologies, even those which they themselves revered and hoped to affirm. For Chaucer and Langland the imagination was indeed creative, involved in the active construction of meanings, and in their poetry they grasped and explored social commitments, religious developments and many perplexing contradictions which were subverting inherited paradigms.
Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Imagination and Traditional Ideologies in Piers Plowman 2. Langland and the Church: Affirmation and Negation 3. Langland, Apocalypse, and the Saeculum 4. Chaucer: Reflexive Imagination, Knowledge, and Authority 5. Chaucer’s Criseyde: Woman in Society, Woman in Love 6. Chaucer: Love, Sex, and Marriage 7. Imagination, Order, and Ideology: The Knight’s Tale; Notes; Index
Date de parution : 06-2019
13.8x21.6 cm
Date de parution : 11-2017
13.8x21.6 cm
Thèmes de Routledge Revivals: Chaucer, Langland, and the Creative... :
Mots-clés :
Passus VI; Chaucer; Chaucer's Imagination; Langland; Hir Herte; Creative; Clerk's Tale; Imagination; Late Medieval Church; Holi Chirche; Vp; Canterbury Tales; Boccaccio; Wo; Antichrist; Bataille; Knight's Tale; Young Men; Holy Chirche; Reflexive Imagination; Book III; Pardoner's Prologue; Myne Handes; Courtly Forms; Fourteenth Century Apocalypse; Estates Satire; Knightly Class; Apocalyptic Passage; Apocalyptic Writing