dolores cullen's Books
Apr.15.2008
A quick look at the accounts of Cullen's "eureka moments" in this gripping autobiography can be deceptive. They are not vague psychic intuitions. They arise from an obsessive, long-term saturation in the language and the history of the fourteenth century, in particular the language of allegory. This book recounts the moving story of a life to which this academic journey gave...
Dec.01.2002
Chaucer scholar Dolores Cullen wants to introduce the English-speaking world to the fun of the Middle English vocabulary. Here is a bookful of words and phrases that most of us know and use every day--movie titles, quotes from Shakespeare, Christmas carols, slogans, old saws--all written in words of Middle English. These are all words we still use today. Only the spelling has...
Oct.25.2000
Have you ever wondered why Chaucer's pilgrims all arrive at dusk? Dolores Cullen has the answer to that riddle. Learn why there are no married couples among the pilgrims, and no children either. Learn why most of the pilgrims are men (there are only three women). Learn about the two brothers, the broad-shouldered door-crasher, the thin and easily angered one who lives on...
Nov.01.1999
Dolores Cullen, an iconoclastic scholar with something new to add to centuries of medieval studies, examined the religious side of Chaucer in her first book, Chaucer's Host: Up-so-doun, in which she identified the Host of the Tabard with Christ, the Eucharistic Host. Now Cullen turns her probing mind to Chaucer's bawdy side, identifying the poet's own history of scandal and sexual...
Sep.01.1998
Innkeeper Herry Bailly is the host of the company who tell and hear Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales. For those who simply enjoy the entertainment of storytellilng, that's all he is. But read between the lines, and find the central figure of an allegory--the form that challenged and delighted the poet's contemporaries. It is Christ who is the central force and guiding light...
It is tempting, but unwise, to underestimate the work of Dolores Cullen. Her direct style, her unaffected enthusiasm for the obscure reaches of Middle English, her openly celebratory approach to Chaucer as the poet who changed her life--this kind of thing is anathema to modern English literature scholars. . . . Luckily for us, she tells it straight, in language aimed at the common reader. . . . Not surprisingly, this account of how [the Tales] came to be written takes the reader on an utterly exhilarating literary adventure.”
—Foreword to Ensnared by His Words--from Clare Asquith, author of Shadowplay
About dolores
I became fascinated with Chaucer as a late-in-life college student. I've written 3 books about the Canterbury Tales and 2 more --one that promotes reading Middle English, and one about my Chaucer research adventure. My aim is to show there is a deeper, truly...
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Causes dolores cullen Supports
Covenant House
CARE
Habitat for Humanity
The Smile Train
dolores’s Favorite Books
The Play Called Corpus Christi, The Writing Life, Writing with Power, Allegory: the Theory of a Symbolic Mode, Geoffrey Chaucer by J. L. Lowes
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