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Poems from Korea - From the Earliest Era to the Present (Paperback): Peter H. Lee Poems from Korea - From the Earliest Era to the Present (Paperback)
Peter H. Lee
R969 Discovery Miles 9 690 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Koreans, according to the Chinese chronicles, are 'the people who enjoy singing and dancing' and who regaled their gods with dance and song. Since then poetry has been an essential part of Korean life and has been regarded as the highest of the arts. In this first comprehensive anthology of Korean poetry in English, first published in 1974, Peter Lee has selected and translated a wide variety of poems ranging from the Silla Dynasty in 57 BC to the middle of the twentieth century. The poems chosen reflect not only the native Korean tradition, but also the great tradition of Chinese poetry. They often possess a deep lyrical quality, many are rich in religious overtones or derive their beauty from contemplation of nature and through many of the poems runs the feeling of the closeness of Korean life to the earth.

Splinters Uit Die Vuur/Spane Aus Dem Feuer (Afrikaans, German, Hardcover): Coral Fourie Splinters Uit Die Vuur/Spane Aus Dem Feuer (Afrikaans, German, Hardcover)
Coral Fourie; Translated by D.P.M. Botes, Gertrud Tesmer
R96 Discovery Miles 960 Ships in 4 - 8 working days
Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde (Paperback): C. David Benson Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde (Paperback)
C. David Benson
R962 Discovery Miles 9 620 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Originally published in 1990. This study is of one of the world's great narrative poems and one of the few long poems in English about physical love. Although this work is often overshadowed by the Canterbury Tales, the author argues that it has its own profound multiplicity. Its mixture of genres, styles, characters and other competing elements creates a powerful literary experience for each reader. This book explores the diversity and contradictions produced by the poem without attempting to resolve them. It is accessible to those reading the poem for the first time, but equally stimulating to those who know it well, stressing the importance of the role of individual readers in response to the openness of the poem. Although previous criticism tends to emphasize one or two aspects while ignoring others, Benson argues all critical readings are of interest because they make one aware of the poem's many contrasting layers and possibilities. Beginning with the principal source, Boccaccio's Filostrato, the work examines the many different elements added to this source; which contains internal tensions and thus develops Boccaccio's story in a variety of often contradictory directions. The author considers Chaucer's treatment of setting, characterization, love, fortune and religion, showing how these affect the character of the poem and make it simultaneously more chivalric and comic, more Christian and more pagan.

Chaucer and the Bible - A Critical Review of Research, Indexes, and Bibliography (Paperback): Lawrence Besserman Chaucer and the Bible - A Critical Review of Research, Indexes, and Bibliography (Paperback)
Lawrence Besserman
R1,094 Discovery Miles 10 940 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Originally published in 1988. This book offers a very useful source of information on Chaucer's relationship to the Bible. It contains a detailed chapter on research into this connection and then presents two indexes. The first is organised by title of Chaucer's work and then line number detailing the biblical reference. Each entry, if relevant, also notes works listed in the Bibliography that discuss that link. The second index is reversed and so organised by scriptural reference. Detailed guides to each index also discuss interesting facets to how Chaucer drew on the Bible for his works.

Chaucer's Poetic Alchemy - A Study of Value and its Transformation in The Canterbury Tales (Paperback): Sheila Fisher Chaucer's Poetic Alchemy - A Study of Value and its Transformation in The Canterbury Tales (Paperback)
Sheila Fisher
R979 Discovery Miles 9 790 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Originally published in 1988. The economic changes and the growth of commerce in fourteenth century England precipitated both social changes and a preoccupation with material wealth. This book examines Chaucer's treatment of economic and ethical value in The Canterbury Tales within the context of contemporary economic and social change and in relation to the scholastic economic theory that attempted to formulate ethical standards for commercial conduct. The importance of value and its determination and transformation is evident from the two enterprises that Chaucer defines as the motivating principles for his poem. The pilgrimage to St. Thomas's shrine should effect a transformation of their spiritual value. The story-telling competition that produces the tales themselves is established to judge the value of the pilgrims' literary productions. In the Middle Ages, economic value and ethical value were not perceived as unrelated phenomena. Chaucer's concern with the interrelationship of material and moral value is apparent in the number of pilgrims who are interested in material value at the obvious expense of moral value. This book examines this along with a discussion or money's growing importance in the late Middle Ages and the determination of its value.

Chaucer: An Introduction - Second Edition (Paperback): S.S. Hussey Chaucer: An Introduction - Second Edition (Paperback)
S.S. Hussey
R963 Discovery Miles 9 630 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Originally published in 1981, this second edition built on the success of the first which had established itself as a standard introduction to the poetry of Geoffrey Chaucer. It shows Chaucer not only in the context of his own age, but, more important, as a writer and a man who is still vivid to us so many years later. As well as examining the early poems, Troilus and Criseyde, and The Canterbury Tales the author gives a thorough account of Chaucer's background. He examines the traditions in which he wrote, his audience, and his position among his contemporaries. The second edition was updated throughout and included a number of revisions and additions, in particular on the second part of the Roman de la Rose and on The Knight's Tale.

Chaucer and the Making of English Poetry, Volume 1 - Love Vision and Debate (Paperback): P.M. Kean Chaucer and the Making of English Poetry, Volume 1 - Love Vision and Debate (Paperback)
P.M. Kean
R1,025 Discovery Miles 10 250 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Originally published in 1972. This important work of Chaucerian scholarship deals with two aspects of the poet and his work - his individual achievement and his place in history - and demonstrates that in both these senses Chaucer is a maker of English poetry. The author assesses the extent of Chaucer's debt to the English tradition. She considers the development of his 'urbane' manner as a new poetic technique and, with reference to such poems as the Parlement of Foules and the House of Fame, discusses new themes in the Love Vision. She concludes with a detailed study of Chaucer's great debate on love Troilus and Criseyde.

Chaucer and the Making of English Poetry, Volume 2 - The Art of Narrative (Paperback): P.M. Kean Chaucer and the Making of English Poetry, Volume 2 - The Art of Narrative (Paperback)
P.M. Kean
R972 Discovery Miles 9 720 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Originally published in 1972. This important work of Chaucerian scholarship deals with two aspects of the poet and his work - his individual achievement and his place in history - and demonstrates that in both these senses Chaucer is a maker of English poetry. The author explores Chaucer's narrative art. The book includes an examination of the puzzling question of narrative structure in the Canterbury Tales and of the nature of Chaucerian comedy in these works. The author surveys the major themes of the poems: Fortune and free will, marriage, and the nobleness of man. In the final chapter she treats of the meaning of Chaucer's art for his successors. Throughout the work, Miss Kean deals extensively with the sources which Chaucer used for the writing of his poems, in a way which directs light on the more difficult aspects of his art.

Chaucer (Paperback): John Lawlor Chaucer (Paperback)
John Lawlor
R966 Discovery Miles 9 660 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Originally published in 1968. A critical interpretation of Chaucer's narrative poetry which concentrates on three major groupings - the early love-visions, the 'tragedye' of Troilus and Criseyde, and the Canterbury Tales. Emphasis is laid on Chaucer as an oral narrator and on the varying skills which this role encourages and sustains. The quotations are liberal and throughout help is given to the reader unfamiliar with Middle English.

Geoffrey Chaucer (Paperback): John Norton-Smith Geoffrey Chaucer (Paperback)
John Norton-Smith
R1,025 Discovery Miles 10 250 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Originally published in 1974. This book discusses those aspects of Chaucer's art which are concerned with the problem of specific form. These aspects have been concentrated on by the author for Chaucer's major poems and some of his so-called minor poems in separate chapters. It offers a critical evaluation of some specific literary achievements of one of the most important authors of the medieval period. The author extensively compares Chaucer's poetic technique to contemporary French poets and preceding poetic structure.

Chaucer and Middle English Studies - In Honour of Rossell Hope Robbins (Paperback): Beryl Rowland Chaucer and Middle English Studies - In Honour of Rossell Hope Robbins (Paperback)
Beryl Rowland
R1,075 Discovery Miles 10 750 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Originally published in 1974. The thirty-six essays of this book were written and assembled in hour of an internationally recognised scholar of medieval literature. Written by a diverse range of contributors, the chapters cover not only various studies of aspects of Chaucer's poetry, but also some other medieval authors and investigations about the period, particularly referencing carols and hymns.

Chaucer's Humor - Critical Essays (Paperback): Jean E. Jost Chaucer's Humor - Critical Essays (Paperback)
Jean E. Jost
R1,456 Discovery Miles 14 560 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Originally published in 1994. Chaucer is considered the first major humorist in English literature and is particularly interesting as he reflects the humor of predecessors and contemporaries as well as defines development for subsequent British humor. This collection presents essays that define the nature of Chaucerian humor, examine Chaucer's works from a variety of theoretical perspectives, and consider genres of humor within his writing. This is an excellent work of critical discourse that adds important understanding of Chaucer as well as the field of comedy in literature.

Latin Poetry and Its Reception - Essays for Susanna Braund (Hardcover): C.W. Marshall Latin Poetry and Its Reception - Essays for Susanna Braund (Hardcover)
C.W. Marshall
R4,054 Discovery Miles 40 540 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This volume offers 18 new studies reflecting the latest scholarship on Latin verse, explored both in its original context and in subsequent contexts as it has been translated and re-imagined. All chapters reflect the wide research interests of Professor Susanna Braund, to whom the volume is dedicated. Latin Poetry and Its Reception assembles a blend of senior scholars and new voices in Latin literary studies. It makes important contributions to the understanding of kingship in Hellenistic and Roman thought, with the first four chapters dedicated to exploring this theme in Republican poetry, Virgil, Seneca, and Statius. Chapters focusing on the modern reception include case studies from the 16th to the 21st century, with discussions on Gavin Douglas, Edward Gibbon, Herman Melville, Igor Stravinsky, and Elena Ferrante, among others. No comparable volume provides a similar range. Latin Poetry and Its Reception will appeal to all scholars of Latin poetry and classical reception, from senior undergraduates to scholars in classics and other disciplines.

Goethe (Paperback): Benedetto Croce Goethe (Paperback)
Benedetto Croce; Translated by Emily Anderson
R969 Discovery Miles 9 690 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Croce admired Goethe partly because the latter possessed a knowledge of human nature in all its aspects but nonetheless kept his mind above and beyond political sympathies and the quarrels of nations. In this volume originally published in English in 1923, Croce distils his critical ideas about Goethe with the aim of helping readers to better understand the German poet's work.

Simplify me - The life of Keith Douglas (Hardcover): Richard Burton Simplify me - The life of Keith Douglas (Hardcover)
Richard Burton
R907 Discovery Miles 9 070 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Keith Douglas was arguably the most important poet of the Second World War, although over three-quarters of the poems in his Collected Poems were written before he had any direct experience of war. Douglas had a short but eventful life. Born in 1920 in Kent he attended Edgeborough School and Christ's Hospital. He was already writing accomplished poetry at Christ's Hospital and had much of his writing published in the school magazine, The Blue. Dpuglas was awarded an Open Exhibition to Merton College, Oxford, where his tutor was the First World War poet, Edmund Blunden. At Oxford he became the editor of the student newspaper, Cherwell, and had a complicated love life. As an undergraduate he was published in Cherwell and was one of the poets featured in the anthology Eight Oxford Poets. He joined up when the war started but wasn't called for training until the summer of 1940. He trained in Scotland and Gloucestershire and attended Sandhurst. The following summer he was posted to the Middle East, spending most of the rest of the war as a tank commander in the desert campaign the Allies fought against Rommel. He wrote a colourful memoir of this part of the war, Alamein to Zem Zem, which was published after his death in action in Normandy. He wrote some of his most famous and anthologized poetry in Africa. Douglas returned from North Africa to England in December 1943 as a Captain and took part in the D-Day invasion of Normandy on 6 June 1944. He was killed by enemy mortar fire on 9 June. The regimental chaplain Captain Leslie Skinner buried him by a hedge, close to where he had died; he reported that there was no sign of injury on Douglas's body. Burton's life of Keith Douglas is the first for fifty years. It makes use of recent scholarship as well as facts of Douglas's life that have recently emerged.

Feminism and Poetry - Language, Experience, Identity in Women's Writing (Hardcover, 3rd Revised edition): Jan Montefiore Feminism and Poetry - Language, Experience, Identity in Women's Writing (Hardcover, 3rd Revised edition)
Jan Montefiore; Introduction by Claire Buck
R849 Discovery Miles 8 490 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Women's poetry has too often been undervalued, misread, or simply ignored; but in this updated edition, Montefiore convincingly reappraises the range, scope, and variety of women s poetry, past and present. With a readable and lucid explanation and application of current critical theory, this book helps readers to appreciate writers ranging from Christina Rossetti, Eavan Boland, and Grace Nichols to Adrienne Rich, Irena Klepfisz, and Liz Lochhead.

A Reading of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Paperback): J. A. Burrow A Reading of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Paperback)
J. A. Burrow
R970 Discovery Miles 9 700 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Originally published in 1965, A Reading of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is an interpretation of the most important poem in Middle English literature, the only fourteenth century work which can stand beside Chaucer. The book examines the poem's conventions and purposes in a critical analysis and provides a useful and insightful introduction to 'Sir Gawain'. It will be of interest to students and academics studying the poem of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.

Justice and Mercy in Piers Plowman - A Reading of the B Text Visio (Paperback): Myra Stokes Justice and Mercy in Piers Plowman - A Reading of the B Text Visio (Paperback)
Myra Stokes
R1,072 Discovery Miles 10 720 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Originally published by 1984 Justice and Mercy in Piers Plowman provides a clear and informative introduction to the complexities of Langland's Piers Plowman. It identifies Langland's major concerns and shows in detail, passus by passus, how these are developed by him in the first part of the poem - the Visio. It offers a close reading of the text and draws parallels where relevant with other medieval writings. There is a final brief chapter on the Vita which outlines the chief ways in which the themes of justice, mercy and law that have been followed through Visio continue to be of major importance in the rest of the poem. By concentrating on the philosophical core of the work, the climate of thought in which Langland wrote and the thematic integrity of the poem as a whole, the author makes a difficult, but unique and fascinating poem more accessible.

Oral Poetics in Middle English Poetry (Paperback): Mark C. Amodio Oral Poetics in Middle English Poetry (Paperback)
Mark C. Amodio
R1,072 Discovery Miles 10 720 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Originally published in 1994, Oral Tradition in Middle English is an edited collection providing a multidisciplinary look at the importance and nature of oral tradition in Middle English literature. The book offers a discussion of the gradual problemization of orality and literacy in works of verbal art from this period. It shows how early typographies proved too exclusive to explain the heterogeneity of relevant texts, bringing to bear the new and potentially productive concepts of "vocality" and developing literacy. This book establishes a new interpretive paradigm for Middle English poetry.

John Lydgate (Paperback): Derek Pearsall John Lydgate (Paperback)
Derek Pearsall
R1,075 Discovery Miles 10 750 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Originally published in 1970, John Lydgate sets out to restore a sense of perspective to the work of Lydgate, not by attributing a spurious modernity as a precursor of the Renaissance, but by accepting the fact that he is fundamentally medieval. The book analyses Lydgate's background in literary tradition and compares this with Chaucer's work. The book looks at Lydgate as a professional craftsman and examines how his work adapted to the demands and occasions of his age. Without over-valuing the poetry, this approach makes it possible to discriminate with increased objectivity between the more and less worthwhile and to distinguish the unexpectedly large number of poems in which craftsman-like competence rises to rhetorical artistry of a high order. In accepting Lydgate as the epitome of his age, the book also provides a diagram of the medieval poetic mind in its basic form and suggests the usefulness of Lydgate as a source book for the understanding of medieval literature.

Memorization in the Transmission of the Middle English Romances (Paperback): Murray McGillivray Memorization in the Transmission of the Middle English Romances (Paperback)
Murray McGillivray
R962 Discovery Miles 9 620 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Originally published in 1990, Memorization in the Transmission of the Middle English Romances tackles the long-standing issue of the role of memorization in the transmission of Middle English romances. The book addresses the lack of consensus on the issue, despite extensive discussion, putting forth the theory that the heterogeneity of the poems of this period, grouped under the general heading of 'medieval romance', makes generalizations about the history of transmissions unreliable. The book suggests that oral-formulaic theory has been applied over-literally to oral or oral derived works, through the assumption that all poems answer the same structural criteria. The book also looks at the aspects of orality and performance theory alongside the textuality and intertextuality of these medieval texts.

Old English and Middle English Poetry (Paperback): Derek Pearsall Old English and Middle English Poetry (Paperback)
Derek Pearsall
R1,081 Discovery Miles 10 810 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Originally published in 1977, Old English and Middle English Poetry provides a historical approach to English poetry. The book examines the conditions out of which poetry grew and argues that the functions that it was assigned are historically integral to an informed understanding of the nature of poetry. The book aims to relate poems to the intellectual and formal traditions by which they are shaped and given their being. This book will be of interest to students and academics studying or working in the fields of literature and history alike.

Piers Plowman - Critical Approaches (Paperback): S.S. Hussey Piers Plowman - Critical Approaches (Paperback)
S.S. Hussey
R1,083 Discovery Miles 10 830 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Originally published in 1969 Piers Plowman is a collection of 12 original essays by leading academics on Piers Plowman. As a combined volume, this collection forms a substantial introduction and a comprehensive account of the poem, its background and textual problems. The book's essays reflect the diversity, and vigour of criticism in the field of medieval literature and opens new perspectives in the study of one of its finest poems.

The Poetry of John Lydgate (Paperback): Alain Renoir The Poetry of John Lydgate (Paperback)
Alain Renoir
R966 Discovery Miles 9 660 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Originally published in 1967, The Poetry of John Lydgate presents a broad discussion of John Lydgate's secular poetry. It reassesses much of the poetry through critical examination and suggests that Lydgate was not necessarily the master that the medieval ages proclaimed him to be, nor the plain poet that he is often seen as in modern analysis. Instead, the book suggest that he was a competent poetic craftsman that presents substantial literary form in his poetry. The analysis in the book looks at Lydgate as atypical of the Middle Ages, instead exhibiting traits currently linked to the Renaissance. The book provides a unique perspective on John Lydgate as a poet and will be of interest to medievalist and literary historians alike.

Chaucer Source and Analogue Criticism - A Cross-Referenced Guide (Paperback): Lynn King Morris Chaucer Source and Analogue Criticism - A Cross-Referenced Guide (Paperback)
Lynn King Morris
R1,467 R1,027 Discovery Miles 10 270 Save R440 (30%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Originally published in 1985. This impressive research tool offers four different indexes to cross-reference works on the sources of Chaucer. The user can look up sources by author, genre type or title, or look up the title of one of Chaucer's works to find which bibliographic entries they are mentioned within. This is a useful reference work on Chaucer source and analogue scholarship, including 1477 entries.

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