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  1. Jerzy Andrzejewskis Roman "Ciemności kryją ziemię" und die Darstellung der spanischen Inquisition in Werken der fiktionalen Literatur
  2. Ars philologica slavica
  3. Das Bauernthema in der sowjetrussischen Prosa der 20er Jahre
  4. Diachroničeskie transformacii literaturnych žanrov i motivov
    Published: 1981
    Publisher:  Inst. für Slawistik,, Wien

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    Language: German; Russian
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    DDC Categories: 491.8
    Series: Wiener slawistischer Almanach
    Subjects: Russisch; Literaturgattung; Geschichte; Literatur; Genrebild
    Scope: 262 S.
    Notes:

    In kyrill. Schr., russ

    Zsfassung in dt. Sprache

    Teilw. in kyrill. Schr., russ.

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  5. Geschichte der orientalischen Nationalkirchen
    Published: 1981
    Publisher:  Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen

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    Language: German
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    ISBN: 3525523122
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    RVK Categories: BO 1000 ; BO 1215 ; NV 1500
    DDC Categories: 230
    Series: Die Kirche in ihrer Geschichte ; D,2 : Bd. 1
    Subjects: Orientalische Nationalkirche; Geschichte; Kirchengeschichte
    Scope: S. 270 - 367
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  6. Sozialgeschichte der Sozialpolitik in Deutschland vom 18. Jahrhundert bis zum Ersten Weltkrieg
    Published: 1981
    Publisher:  Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen

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    Language: German
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    ISBN: 3525334583
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    RVK Categories: MS 6500 ; NW 3900 ; NW 8800 ; QX 000 ; QX 100
    DDC Categories: 360; 943
    Series: Kleine Vandenhoeck-Reihe ; 1472
    Subjects: Sozialpolitik; Geschichte
    Scope: 240 S.
    Notes:

    Literaturverz. S. 235 - 240

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  7. Kirche, Staat und katholische Wissenschaft in der Neuzeit
    Festschrift für Heribert Raab zum 65. Geburtstag am 16. März 1988
    Published: 1988
    Publisher:  Schöningh, Paderborn

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    Contributor: Portmann-Tinguely, Albert; Raab, Heribert
    Language: French; German
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    Format: Online
    ISBN: 3506732625
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    RVK Categories: BO 1330 ; NK 8200
    DDC Categories: 230; 943
    Series: Quellen und Forschungen auf dem Gebiet der Geschichte / N.F. ; 12
    Subjects: Bibliografie; Staat; Wissenschaft; Geschichte; Kirchengeschichte
    Other subjects: Raab, Heribert (1923-1990)
    Scope: XV, 608 S. : Ill.
    Notes:

    Beitr. teilw. dt., teilw. franz.

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  8. Untersuchungen zur Staats- und Herrschaftsmetaphorik in literarischen Zeugnissen von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart
    Published: 1983
    Publisher:  Fink, München

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    Language: German
    Media type: Dissertation
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    ISBN: 3770521811
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    RVK Categories: CC 7500 ; EC 3765 ; EC 5410 ; NK 4700 ; NT 3100
    Series: Münstersche Mittelalterschriften ; 50.
    Subjects: Herrschaft; Metapher; Literatur; Staat; Herrscher; Geschichte; Staat <Motiv>
    Scope: XIII, 940, XVIII S. : Ill., graph. Darst.
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    Zugl.: Münster, Westfalen, Univ., Habil.-Schr., 1982

  9. Tausend Jahre Russische Orthodoxe Kirche
    Beiträge von Geistlichen d. Russischen Orthodoxen Kirche im Ausland u. Wissenschaftlern verschiedener Disziplinen
    Contributor: Kasack, Wolfgang
    Published: 1988
    Publisher:  Sagner, München

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    Contributor: Kasack, Wolfgang
    Language: German
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    ISBN: 3876903726
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    RVK Categories: BO 3290 ; BO 3300 ; KH 1055
    DDC Categories: 230; 491.8; 940
    Series: Arbeiten und Texte zur Slavistik ; 44
    Subjects: Geschichte; Kirchengeschichte
    Scope: 197 S. : Ill.
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  10. Der russische Werther
    Analysen und Materialien zu einem Kapitel deutsch-russischer Literaturbeziehungen
    Published: 1988
    Publisher:  Sagner, München

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    Contributor: Schneider, Martin
    Language: German
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 3876904056
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    RVK Categories: GK 4370 ; GK 4675 ; KH 1435
    DDC Categories: 491.8
    Series: Specimina philologiae Slavicae ; 80
    Subjects: Rezeption; Geschichte; Literatur; Russisch
    Other subjects: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832): Die Leiden des jungen Werthers
    Scope: 128 S. : Ill.
    Notes:

    Literaturangaben

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  11. Češskaja biblija v istorii russkoj kul'tury i pis'mennosti
    Published: 1988
    Publisher:  Sagner, München

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    Language: Russian
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    ISBN: 3876904021
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    RVK Categories: KH 3415
    DDC Categories: 220; 491.8
    Edition: Neudr. d. Ausg. Praha 1946
    Series: Specimina philologiae slavicae ; 77.
    Subjects: Übersetzung; Tschechisch; Geschichte; Russisch; Kultur; Alttschechisch
    Other subjects: Skaryna, Frantsysk (1486-1541)
    Scope: S. 154 - 258
    Notes:

    Aus: Sbornik filologický ; 12, S. 154 - 258

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  12. Hexenprozesse in Deutschland
    Published: 1981
    Publisher:  Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen

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    Language: German
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 3525334567
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    RVK Categories: BR 3600 ; LC 41015 ; NV 5700 ; NW 8290 ; PH 2340 ; PY 865
    DDC Categories: 230; 943
    Series: Kleine Vandenhoeck-Reihe ; 1470
    Subjects: Hexenprozess; Geschichte
    Scope: 140 S.
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  13. Equivocal Prediction
    George Herbert's Way to God
    Published: [2016]; © 1981
    Publisher:  University of Toronto Press, Toronto

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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781442656383
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    Series: Heritage
    Subjects: Geschichte; Christian poetry, English; Christianity and literature; God in literature; Logic in literature
    Scope: 1 online resource
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    Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher’s Web site, viewed Jan. 06, 2016)

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  14. Der Schulaufsatz
    Seine Geschichte in Deutschland
    Author: Ludwig, Otto
    Published: 1988
    Publisher:  De Gruyter, Berlin ;New York

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    Language: German
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 3110116030; 9783110116038; 9783110851885
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    Subjects: Deutsch; Geschichte; German language; German language; Deutschunterricht; Aufsatz
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 504 p)
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. [456]-493) and indexes

  15. Frankreichs Kultur
    Tradition und Revolte. Von der Klassik bis zum Surrealismus
    Published: 1972
    Publisher:  De Gruyter, Berlin

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    Language: German
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783110036541; 9783110834895; 9783111749785
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    Subjects: Geschichte; Kultur
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (XVI, 826 S.)
  16. Der Identitätsroman
    Eine Strukturanalyse
    Published: 1988
    Publisher:  De Gruyter, Berlin

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    Language: German
    Media type: Ebook
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    ISBN: 9783484320444; 9783110912296
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    Series: Untersuchungen zur deutschen Literaturgeschichte ; 44
    Subjects: Bildungsroman; Entwicklungsroman; Roman; Geschichte; Deutsch; Identität; Identitätsfindung; Identität <Motiv>
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (VI, 153 S.)
  17. Victorian Suicide
    Mad Crimes and Sad Histories
    Published: [1988]
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J.

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    Language: English
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    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781400859566
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    Subjects: Soziale Probleme, Sozialdienste, Versicherungen; Suicide / Great Britain / History / 19th century; Suicide in literature; PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Illness; Suicide; Geschichte; Literatur; Selbstmord; Englisch; Selbstmord <Motiv>; Öffentliche Meinung
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (208p.)
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    When Viscount Castlereagh, leader of the House of Commons and architect of the Grand Alliance, committed suicide in 1822, the coroner's inquest could consider only two legal verdicts: insanity or self-murder. Public outrage greeted his burial in Westminster Abbey; the tradition lingered that a suicide's burial place be at a crossroads, with a stake through the heart to keep the lost soul from wandering. Probing a remarkable variety of sources and individual cases, Barbara Gates shows how attitudes toward suicide changed between Castlereagh's death and the end of the century. By 1900 the Victorians' moral censure of suicide and the accompanying denial that it was a widespread problem had been replaced by a more compassionate response--and also by an unfounded belief in a "suicide epidemic," which Thomas Hardy described as a "coming universal wish not to live.".Exposing a rich area of interaction between history and literature, and utilizing the methodology of the new historicism, Gates discusses topics ranging from the plot for Wuthering Heights to Victorian shilling shockers. Among other findings she includes evidence that Victorian middle-class men, particularly, tended to make suicide the province of other selves--of men belonging to other times or places, of "monsters," or of women.Originally published in 1988.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905

  18. Die französische Literatur
    Einführung und Studienführer – Von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart
    Published: [1988]
    Publisher:  De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston

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    Language: German
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783110919875; 9783484502406; 9783111860589
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    Subjects: Französische Literatur; French literature / History and criticism; French literature / History and criticism / Bibliography; Französisch; Geschichte; Literatur
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (ix,230p.)
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    Der erste Teil des Buches - die Einführung - ist eine Literaturgeschichte mit Überblick über die Textentwicklung vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart. Der zweite Teil - der Studienführer - bietet Forschungsmaterial zu Epochen, Strömungen, Gattungen, Formen, Autoren/Autorinnen und gibt Lesern französischer Literatur, Studierenden und Wissenschaftlern Datenmaterial für Weiterbildung, Studium, Examen, Forschung und Lehre an die Hand

  19. Studien zur deutschen Märendichtung
    Published: 1983
    Publisher:  De Gruyter, Berlin ;New York

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    Language: German
    Media type: Ebook
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    ISBN: 9783484104617; 9783110950236
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    Edition: 2., durchgesehene und erweiterte Auflage besorgt von Johannes Janota. Im Original erschienen 1983
    Subjects: Geschichte; Civilization, Medieval, in literature; German poetry; Narration (Rhetoric); Narrative poetry, German; Rhetoric, Medieval; Märe; Bibliografie
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource
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    Includes bibliographical references and indexes

    "An important work for heuristics and the systematic investigation not only of the medieval fable, but of epic rhyming couplets in general. The work is unsurpassed and will remain so for a long time. At the same time it represents a document of research history, which made a major contribution to the boom of late medieval German studies." Prof. Dr. Johannes Janota

    Main description: 0An important work for heuristics and the systematic investigation not only of the medieval fable, but of epic rhyming couplets in general. The work is unsurpassed and will remain so for a long time. At the same time it represents a document of research history, which made a major contribution to the boom of late medieval German studies.0 Prof. Dr. Johannes Janota

    Main description: "Für die Heuristik und die systematische Erforschung nicht nur der Märendichtung, sondern insgesamt der Reimpaarepik nach wie vor und wohl noch für lange Zeit unersetzt. Zugleich ein forschungsgeschichtliches Dokument, das maßgeblich zum Aufschwung der Spätmittelaltergermanistik beitrug.0Prof. Dr. Johannes Janota

  20. Victorian Devotional Poetry
    The Tractarian Mode
  21. Metamorphosis
    The Mind in Exile
    Published: [1981]
    Publisher:  Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass.

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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780674424982; 9780674424975
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    Subjects: Imagination / History; Romanticism / Great Britain; Romanticism / Germany; Empiricism / History; Enlightenment / History; Imagination / Histoire; Siècle des lumières / Histoire; Romantisme / Grande-Bretagne; Romantisme / Allemagne; Empirisme / Histoire; Geschichte; Philosophie; Enlightenment; Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.); Création littéraire; Empiricism; Imagination; Romanticism; Creativiteit; Verbeelding; Verbeeldingskracht; Verlichting (cultuurgeschiedenis); Romantiek; Deutsch; Englisch; Literatur; Romantik; Theorie; Metamorphose <Motiv>; Literatur
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (244p.)
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    Fusing the methods of comparative literature, intellectual history, and philosophical analysis, Skulsky explores a motif that has fascinated storytellers since antiquity: the miraculous transformation of a character into a plant, an animal, or a different human being. The thesis of the study is that the fantasy of metamorphosis challenges the narrator and his audience to confront certain basic anxieties about the human condition

    Fusing the methods of comparative literature, intellectual history, and philosophical analysis, Harold Skulsky explores a motif that has fascinated storytellers since antiquity: the miraculous transformation of a character into a plant, an animal, or a different human being. The thesis of the study is that the fantasy of metamorphosis challenges the narrator and his audience to confront certain basic anxieties about the human condition: Is the mind reducible to physical properties? What constitutes personhood? How does physical form affect personal identity and continuity of the self? Testing instances in which these and related perplexities appear in literature, Skulsky systematically and provocatively interprets ten major illustrative texts drawn from diverse epochs and languages, including the works of Homer, Ovid, Apuleius, Marie de France, Dante, Donne, Spenser, Keats, Kafka, and Woolf. Through Skulsky's masterly analysis the victims of metamorphosis in narrative literature--whether werewolf, ass, beetle, swine, or tree--provide a profound insight into the complexities of human experience

  22. The Hidden Reader
    Stendhal, Balzac, Hugo, Baudelaire, Flaubert
    Published: [1988]
    Publisher:  Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass.

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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780674731561; 9780674731554
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    Subjects: French literature / 19th century / History and criticism; Authors and readers / France / History / 19th century; Littérature française / 19e siècle / Histoire et critique; Écrivains et lecteurs / France / Histoire / 19e siècle; Geschichte; Französische Literatur; Reader-response criticism; Esthétique de la réception; Authors and readers; French literature; Leserrolle; Schriftsteller; Französisch; Literatur; Leser; Autor; Rezeptionsästhetik
    Other subjects: Hugo, Victor (1802-1885); Balzac, Honoré de (1799-1850); Stendhal (1783-1842); Flaubert, Gustave (1821-1880); Baudelaire, Charles (1821-1867)
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (226p.)
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    Brombert shows how a text works--its structure and narrative devices, and the symbolic function of characters, episodes, words--and he highlights the distinctive postures and styles of each writer. He gives us a sense of the hidden inner text as well as the techniques writers have devised to lead their readers to the discovery of what is hidden. With wonderful subtlety he unravels the reader's participatory response, whether it be Hugo reading Shakespeare, Sartre reading Hugo, Stendhal reading Rousseau, T. S. Eliot misreading Baudelaire, or Baudelaire, Balzac, and Flaubert reading their own sensibilities

    Victor Brombert is an unrivaled interpreter of French literature; and the writers he considers in this latest book are ones with whom he has a long acqualntance. These essays--eleven of them appearing in English for the first time and some totally new--give us an acute analysis of the major figures of the nineteenth century and a splendid lesson in criticism. Brombert shows how a text works--its structure and narrative devices, and the symbolic function of characters, episodes, words--and he highlights the distinctive postures and styles of each writer. He gives us a sense of the hidden inner text as well as the techniques writers have devised to lead their readers to the discovery of what is hidden. With wonderful subtlety he unravels the reader's participatory response, whether it be Hugo reading Shakespeare, Sartre reading Hugo, Stendhal reading Rousseau, T. S. Eliot misreading Baudelaire, or Baudelaire, Balzac, and Flaubert reading their own sensibilities. This book is a sterling example of the finest kind of literary criticism--wise, intelligent, responsive, sympathetic--that reveals central aspects of the creative process and returns the reader joyfully to the texts themselves

  23. Literatur und Gelehrtentum in Deutschland
    Untersuchungen zum Wandel ihres Verhältnisses vom Humanismus bis zur Frühaufklärung
    Published: 1983
    Publisher:  De Gruyter, Berlin

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    Language: German
    Media type: Ebook
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    ISBN: 9783484180758; 9783110931365; 9783111846569
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    Series: Studien zur deutschen Literatur ; 75
    Subjects: Geschichte; Criticism; German literature; German literature; Literature and society; Poetik; Wissenschaft; Gelehrtendichtung; Deutsch; Literatur; Gelehrter
    Other subjects: Electronic books
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (XI, 869 S.)
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    An abridgment of the author's Habilitationsschrift--Universität Tübingen, Sommersemester, 1981. - Includes bibliographical references (pages 757-857) and index

  24. Chaucer and ‹i›The Legend of Good Women‹/i›
    Published: [1972]
    Publisher:  Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass.

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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9780674331990; 9780674331983
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    Subjects: Women and literature / England / History / To 1500; Geschichte; Englische Literatur; Mythology, Classical, in literature; Women in literature; The legende of good women (Chaucer)
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (ix,219p.)
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    Frank begins his analysis with a careful consideration of Chaucer's situation in 1386, the year he presumably began the Legend. It was, he suggests, a moment in his career propitious for change--change in subject and in art as well. The Legend reveals this change in the process of its accomplishment

    Designed to fill a gap in Chaucerian studies, this book offers new insight into the development of Chaucer's artistry at a critical point in his career, after he had completed the Troilus and just before he embarked on The Canterbury Tales. Chaucer and "The Legend of Good Women" rejects the usual critical assessment of the Legend, setting it forth instead as a serious and experimental work, an important and necessary prelude to the achievement of The Canterbury Tales. Robert Worth Frank, Jr., begins his analysis of the Legend with a careful consideration of Chaucer's situation in 1386, the year he presumably began the Legend. It was, he suggests, a moment in his career propitious for change--change in subject and in art as well. The Legend reveals this change in the process of its accomplishment. Frank stresses that the road to The Canterbury Tales runs through the Legend. In tracing the route he shows how Chaucer broke away from the limited tradition of courtly love and experimented with a variety of tones and styles and an expanded range of subject matter, with a new verse form, the pentameter couplet, and with new techniques of compression which led to a greater dedication to the short narrative form. The individual legends, though not Chaucer's greatest creations, have merits of their own. The general uniformity of theme proves misleading. The legends provide Chaucer with a broader canvas than he had ever used before, making possible a wide variety in tone and dramatic incident. Above all, this study, enlivened by the author's supple and spirited prose, depicts Chaucer boldly committing himself to the great world of story and thereby drawing on some of the most enduring classical myths for material and moving toward a new art and a new and richer realm of human experience

  25. The creative imagination
    enlightenment to romanticism