A New Companion to Critical Thinking on Chaucer (Arc Companions)

This New Companion to Critical Thinking on Chaucer brings together preeminent scholars from around the world and adopts a novel approaching, beginning with the basics: Chaucer's words. Each chapter explores a single word from the Chaucerian corpus to develop readings that extend across the author's works. Without being limited to a particular text or theoretical approach, contributors model scholarly thinking in action, posing questions and offering analyses from textual, theoretical, historical, and material approaches. The result is a comprehensive collection of essays that illuminates Chaucer's aesthetics, philosophical complexity, and continued relevance. Part innovative scholarship, part how-to manual, the volume includes apparatus to help less experienced readers of Chaucer negotiate its contents. In addition to fourteen main essays, the volume also includes three response essays, each modelling how a seasoned scholar uses the chapters to develop his or her own thinking about Chaucer. Thus, the companion offers something to audiences of all levels who wish to read, research, and enjoy Chaucer, his language, and his works.ISBN : 9781641892520 Front Cover Half-title Companions Title page Copyright information Table of contents Acknowledgements References and Abbreviations Foreword: Chaucer’s Singular Vocabulary Front matter Introduction Geoffrey Chaucer: A Cultural and Linguistic Biography Chaucer Studies: Theoretical Questions and Points of Focus Aesthetics and Form in Chaucer Affect, Emotions, and the Mind in Chaucer English versus European Chaucer Gender and Sexuality Studies and Chaucer Nature and Nonhuman Entities in Chaucer Philosophical Chaucer Political and Ethical Chaucer Post- historicism and Chaucer Racial and Religious Difference and Chaucer Reception Studies and Chaucer Religion and Chaucer Sources for Chaucer How to Use This Book For Students For Instructors For Scholars Bibliography PART ONE Consent/ Assent Bibliography Entente The Friar’s Tale Troilus and Criseyde Chaucer’s Entente Chaucer and the Fleet Street Friar Bibliography Pite The Man of Law’s Tale: The Limitations of Pity’s Imagined Communities The Knight’s Tale: Womanly Pity, Masculine Mercy, and a Gentil Right to Rule The Perils of Embodiment: Undercutting Pite as Emotive in the Merchant’s Tale Womanly Feeling in the Squire’s Tale: Pite’s Hold and Female Homosociality Conclusion Bibliography Slider Bibliography Response: Consent, Entente, Pite, Slider Bibliography PART TWO Merveille Marvels and Perspective in the Squire’s Tale Marvels and Vision in the Franklin’s Tale Marvels and Morality in the Clerk’s Tale Conclusion: Chaucer’s Marvels Acknowledgments Bibliography Virginite Bibliography Swiven Bibliography Craft Craft as Specialty: The Canterbury Tales Love- Craft in Stanzas: Anelida and Arcite and Troilus and Criseyde Bibliography Response: Merveille, Virginite, Swiven, Craft Bibliography PART THREE Vertu Heroic Subjectivity, Vernacular Ethics, and Feminist Vertues Melibee, or Refashioning the Whole Person Middle English Vertu, New Materialism, and Feminist Subjectivity Bibliography Wal What Is a Wall? Walls of the Body Walls of the Mind Walls of Wonder Bibliography Thing Inventional Things in the Legend of Good Women The Sufficient Thing of Truth Bibliography Blak Bibliography RESPONSE: VERTU, WAL, THING, BLAK Bibliography PART FOUR Auctorite/ Auctour Some Etymologies and Distinctions “Womanly Noblesse” Myn Auctour and Grete Auctoritee The Antinomy of Authority and Freedom Bibliography Seculere Alle Thyng Hath Tyme A Clokke or an Abbey Orologge So Siker as In Principio Bibliography Flesh Disability Studies Prosthetic Flesh Rebel Flesh Bibliography Memorie Bibliography Response: Auctorite, Seculere, Flesh, Memorie Time Experience Narrative Bibliography Appendix 1: Summaries of the Works of Chaucer Canterbury Tales Appendix 2: Additional Terms Appendix 3: Coverage by Term Barr: Swiven Barrington: Entente Burger: Pite Crocker: Vertu Evans: Memorie Godden: Flesh Holsinger: Craft Nowlin: Thing Perry: Auctorite/Auctor Raybin: Slider Salih: Virginite Sanok: Seculere Somerset: Consent/Assent Turner: Wal Whitaker: Blak Williams: Merveille Appendix 4: Coverage by Work Canterbury Tales Book of the Duchess House of Fame Anelida and Arcite Parliament of Fowls Boece Troilus and Criseyde Legend of Good Women Shorter Poems Treatise on the Astrolabe No Extended Readings Index "This New Companion to Critical Thinking on Chaucer brings together preeminent scholars from around the world and adopts a novel approaching, beginning with the basics: Chaucer's words. Each chapter explores a single word from the Chaucerian corpus to develop readings that extend across the author's works. Without being limited to a particular text or theoretical approach, contributors model scholarly thinking in action, posing questions and offering analyses from textual, theoretical, historical, and material approaches. The result is a comprehensive collection of essays that illuminates Chaucer's aesthetics, philosophical complexity, and continued relevance. Part innovative scholarship, part how-to manual, the volume includes apparatus to help less experienced readers of Chaucer negotiate its contents. In addition to fourteen main essays, the volume also includes three response essays, each modelling how a seasoned scholar uses the chapters to develop his or her own thinking about Chaucer. Thus, the companion offers something to audiences of all levels who wish to read, research, and enjoy Chaucer, his language, and his works"-- Provided by publisher