Chaucer to Chesterton. English classics from Polish perspective.
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Przemysław Mroczkowski.
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Book
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English
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Szkice
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435947 ; Prace Wydziału Historyczno-Filologicznego / Towarzystwo Naukowe Katolickiego Uniwersytetu Lubelskiego
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The Author's Explanation. * [Geoffrey] Chaucer, [William] Langland and their backgrounds: Chaucer's Knight and some of his fellow-fighters. Faith and the critical spirit in Chaucer and his time. Mediaeval art and aesthetics in "The Canterbury Tales". "The Friar's Tale" and its pulpit background. "Piers Plowman": the allegory in motion (A running commentary. For Professor Nevill Coghill) [William Langand: Pers Plowman"]. Piers and his pardon (A dynamic analysis). Incubi and friars [G. Chaucer]. Celebrations and diplomacy in the Cracow "annus mirabilis", 1364. * Shakespeare: the uses of imagination: Shakespeare's "as ifs". "A midsummer night's dream" and common sense. * Some modern writers: J.H. Newman's "The idea of a university": outmoded or topical? (For Professor Stefan Swieżawski). Conrad and [Gilbert Keith] Chesterton - two Europeans. Joseph Conrad's international worls of men. The gnomic element in Conrad. Some border problems in the teaching of foreign language and literature in the university. Don Quixote of common sense.