{"product_id":"the-shaping-of-english-poetry-volume-ii-essays-on-sir-gawain-and-the-green-knight-langland-and-chaucer-9783034308540","title":"The Shaping of English Poetry- Volume II: Essays","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis second volume of essays under the title \u003ci\u003eThe Shaping of English Poetry \u003c\/i\u003econtinues the project set out in the Preface to the first volume, discussing the three golden poets of the Golden Age of English poetry in the second half of the fourteenth century. The first two essays address the great alliterative poems \u003ci\u003eSir Gawain and the Green Knight \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003ePiers Plowman \u003c\/i\u003eand the remaining six essays are on Chaucer, five of them on \u003ci\u003eThe Canterbury Tales\u003c\/i\u003e. There is no doubt about the sustained excellence (and often the sublimity) of these works, and it remains a hard task for readers and scholars to measure up to them.\u003cbr\u003e The essays on Chaucer are predominantly concerned with the influence of Italian poetry and Aristotelian moral philosophy. These influences have long been recognised, but their depth and weight have not so readily been acknowledged. In particular, the influence of Aristotle – not merely on Chaucer’s poetry but on thirteenth- and fourteenth-century English and European culture as a whole – presents an intellectual challenge that scholars of medieval English literature have often been reluctant to confront. These essays seek to demonstrate that in engaging with Chaucer’s response to Aristotelian moral philosophy our perspective will not only be enriched but dramatically altered.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents: Misogyny in \u003ci\u003eSir Gawain and the Green Knight\u003c\/i\u003e – The dignity of Langland’s Meed – The adaptation of Boccaccio’s Temple of Venus in \u003ci\u003eThe Parliament of Fowls\u003c\/i\u003e – Moral and social Identity in the \u003ci\u003eGeneral Prologue –\u003c\/i\u003e Obscenity in \u003ci\u003eThe Miller’s Tale\u003c\/i\u003e –\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eThe Man of Law and the argument for Providence – The logic of \u003ci\u003eThe Clerk’s Tale\u003c\/i\u003e – Boccaccio’s \u003ci\u003eFilocolo \u003c\/i\u003eand the moral argument of \u003ci\u003eThe Franklin’s Tale\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51043619209559,"sku":"9783034308540","price":49.68,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-shaping-of-english-poetry-volume-ii-essays-on-sir-gawain-and-the-green-knight-langland-and-chaucer-9783034308540","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}