Creators - From Chaucer and Durer to Picasso and Disney
Paul Johnson now meets the charge with this companion volume of essays on outstanding and prolific creative spirits. He looks at writers from Chaucer and Shakespeare to Mark Twain and T. S. Eliot, artists like Dürer, and architects such as Pugin and Viollet-le-Duc. He explains the different ways in which Jane Austen, Madame de Stael, and George Eliot struggled to make their voices heard in the masculine hubbub.
New insights and findings can be found in this books.
This is a collection of essays written by experienced scholars and it is for students who want to explore the fileld in a new way with active learning and this books is designed to help the reader's research critical thinking skills.
Grade 6 - 9 Profile of one of the most important writers of the Middle Ages, who was heavily influenced by the religious and political situations of his country and who reflected these influences in his writing. Chaucer's Canterbury Tales is humurous and satirical. The book provides information to help students better understand all of the works of this prominent man. It describes its subject's childhood and background as well as his influences, career and writing.
Sacrifice Your Love: Psychoanalysis, Historicism, Chaucer (Medieval Cultures)
Historicism and its discontents have long been central to the work of Louise Fradenburg, one of the world's most original and provocative literary medievalists. Sacrifice Your Love develops the idea that sacrifice is a mode of enjoyment-that our willingness to sacrifice our desire is actually a way of pursuing it. Fradenburg considers the implications of this idea for various problems important in medieval studies today-how to understand the religiosity of cultural forms, particularly chivalry, in the later Middle Ages and how to understand the ethics of Chaucer's famously nondidactic poetry-as well as in other fields of inquiry.
Chaucer's Pilgrims: An Historical Guide to the Pilgrims in The Canterbury Tales
"This volume as a whole is eminently useful, especially for novice and undergraduate readers of Chaucer. Individual bibliographies attached to each essay will provide young researchers excellent starting places for further study." -- Choice
