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Bezig met laden... Life and Writings of Geoffrey Chaucer (The Great Courses) (editie 1999)door Seth Lerer
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. This is an enjoyable way to learn the basics about the Canterbury Tales, some of Chaucer's other works, his life (of which not enough is known), and his place in the history of English poetry. Lerer reads passages in Middle English before translating them to modern English. This is essential as it gives you a feel for the real poetry in Chaucer's language, even if you can't understand all of it. It makes me want to read the tales in more detail, and perhaps some of his more notorious work as well. I think a translation that presents the Middle English on one page and modern English on the facing page would be idea. I'm sure there must be one out there. As a Teaching Company professor, Lerer rates in the top quartile. His delivery is smooth with very few stumbles and he doesn't sound like he's reading from a script. He also has a pleasant voice. (I listened to the audio edition. I don't even know if there is a video version of this one.) Recommended for all English majors with gaps in their Chaucer education! geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Geoffrey Chaucer is one of our grandest and most enduring poets; an architect of our vocabulary and our literary style. By examining the English writer's texts, from his short love lyrics to the copious profusion of character and incident that is The Canterbury Tales, these 12 lectures will prepare you for the challenges of Chaucer's oeuvre, and will provide an understanding of what makes him the true "father" of English poetry. With Professor Lerer as your expert guide, you'll plumb the richness and depth of Chaucer's poetry and explore his life, the range of his work, and his impact on English language and literature. You'll examine Chaucer in virtually all the varieties of literature available to him: classical epic, domestic farce, ribald comedy, saint's life, beast fable, romance adventure, personal lyric, devotional prayer, and religious prose. You'll learn how Chaucer uses relationships between men and women, humans and God, social "insiders" and "outsiders," and high and low desires to explore our "ticklish" world, and the way life takes shape from literary forms-be they marriage vows, the verses of Scripture, or stories told by plain folk. You'll also meet some of the most vibrant characters in all of literature, including: the bawdy Wife of Bath, the manipulative Pandarus (whose very name gave rise to the term "pandering"), the upright Knight, and the ambiguous Pardoner. Professor Lerer leads you deeply into the texts, so that you learn about their sources and syntax, and the rich repertoire of poetic techniques they display. And while he makes it clear that these texts remain eminently worth reading today, he also does full justice to their medieval context. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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published: 2013 (?)
format: 6:10 audible audiobook
acquired: audible unlimited listened: Jan 25 – Feb 1
rating: 4
genre/style: Lectures theme: Chaucer
locations: 14th century England
about the author: A Distinguished Professor of Literature at the University of California, San Diego, born in Brooklyn, 1955.
Seth Lerer is notable expert on Chaucer, cited, for example, by [[Marion Turner]] in a recent biography of Chaucer. This is a nice fast-paced entertaining overview. He gets to the heart of Chaucer without getting sidetracked by details. He reads Chaucer out loud in a very charming accent, which might be worth listening by itself, and he teaches the listener how to read Chaucer out loud. He stays big picture and selective. So don't expect much depth. I would liked to have learned a little more about Chaucer's contemporary poets and how his writing accent fit in with the different English dialects of the time. (Turner touches on this). But these are beyond the scope. I did get a sense of his language, and his themes, and that was terrific.
Also, I really enjoyed listening to Lerer. Recommended.
2023
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