Medievalists.net » The House of Fame http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 05:01:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Guilt and Creativity in the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/02/guilt-creativity-works-geoffrey-chaucer/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/02/guilt-creativity-works-geoffrey-chaucer/#comments Tue, 02 Sep 2014 16:50:55 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=52301 I argue that as Chaucer develops his own expansive, questioning poetics in The House of Fame and The Canterbury Tales, he problematises the principle of allegory on which the legitimacy of literary discourse was primarily based in medieval culture and the final fragments of The Canterbury Tales see Chaucer struggling, increasingly, to reconcile the boldness and independence of his poetic vision with the demands of his faith.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/02/guilt-creativity-works-geoffrey-chaucer/feed/ 0 Time, consciousness and narrative play in late Medieval secular dream poetry and framed narratives http://www.medievalists.net/2013/09/26/time-consciousness-and-narrative-play-in-late-medieval-secular-dream-poetry-and-framed-narratives/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/09/26/time-consciousness-and-narrative-play-in-late-medieval-secular-dream-poetry-and-framed-narratives/#comments Thu, 26 Sep 2013 15:11:21 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=43858 This thesis proposes to look at the equation between time and text in the later medieval period. Time-telling and tale-telling have a particularly dynamic relationship in the considers time-telling and temporal referencein an era (c.1230 - 1500) that time-measurement multiple cultural experiencesa greatvariety of types of and
attitudes to time.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/09/26/time-consciousness-and-narrative-play-in-late-medieval-secular-dream-poetry-and-framed-narratives/feed/ 0 An Ecoritical Approach to Chaucer. Representations of the Natural World in the English Literature of the Middle Ages http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/15/an-ecoritical-approach-to-chaucer-representations-of-the-natural-world-in-the-english-literature-of-the-middle-ages/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/15/an-ecoritical-approach-to-chaucer-representations-of-the-natural-world-in-the-english-literature-of-the-middle-ages/#comments Sat, 15 Dec 2012 06:56:24 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=38030 The choice to write and present a study of nature in medieval English literature from an ecological perspective has been originated by a personal interest in the urgency of the deep environmental crisis we are faced with and by the drive to expand the eco- oriented study of representations of nature in literature to chronological and spatial areas well beyond those originally typical of ecological criticism.

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