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Muscatine, Charles Samuel was born on November 28, 1920 in Brooklyn.
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An important study that examines the styles of French poetry as they contribute to Chaucer's style, tracing the idealizing, non-representational conventions of court romances from the early twelfth century to their epitome in Guillaume de Lorris's portion of Roman de la rose, and surveying the bourgeois but no less conventional characteristics of fabliaux, beast epics, and fables as they influence Jean de Meun's portion of the Roman. Chaucer fused these traditions in his mature poetry through juxtaposition, blending, and parody. Book of the Duchess reflects a relatively pure courtly style; increasing use of bourgeois conventions enrich House of Fame and Parliament of Fowls. Troilus and Criseyde balances courtliness and bourgeoisie, contrasting both with Boethian sublimity to disclose their limits. Canterbury Tales displays the courtly (Knight's and Clerk's tales), the bourgeois (Reeve's, Wife of Bath's, and Canon's tales), and rich mixtures (Miller's, Merchant's, and Nun's Priest's tales). The various styles and tones accumulate to produce a Gothic tension between the ideal and the phenomenal.
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"Medieval Literature, Style and Culture" brings together in one volume 14 essays by medievalist Charles Muscatine, author of "Chaucer and the French Tradition" and "The Old French Fabliaux". In this collection, Muscatine focuses mainly on style, meaning and culture in Chaucer, his English contemporaries, and in French fabliaux and romance. "Medieval Literature, Style and Culture" begins with a key essay on Chaucer entitled '"The Canterbury Tales" - Style of the Man and Style of the Work' in which Muscatine defines one of the earliest and most persistent themes of his criticism - the nexus between style and meaning. In this essay the author attempts to distinguish between the style most naturally congenial to Chaucer and the style that Chaucer as artist uses to support the meaning of this particular work. The following three essays concentrate on the politics of Chaucer criticism. They include a dissident piece on the modern reception of Chaucer's religion and "Locus of Action in Medieval Narrative", which expands the notion of literary style to include spatial form and then applies this idea to the meaning of "Piers Plowman". Muscatine's classic work, "Poetry and Crisis in the Age of Chaucer", originally presented at the University of Notre Dame at the Wards Phillips Lectures in English language and literature and published that same year, turns to the second major focus on this criticism: literary style as evidence for cultural history. These essays demonstrate "three kinds of relatedness between poetic art and a culture in crisis". Several pieces that follow discuss the Old French fabliaux, a field in which Muscatine extends his investigations into literature and cultural history. In "The Fabliaux, Courtly Culture and the (Re)-Invention of Vulgarity", he argues that medieval French culture had long taken unembarrassed pleasure in matters that the advent of courtliness was making newly obscene. The collection concludes with implicit tributes to two master scholars: an essay following out C.S. Lewis's study of medieval allegory and a review article on Erich Auerbach's "Mimesis".
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Muscatine, Charles Samuel was born on November 28, 1920 in Brooklyn.
Bachelor of Arts, Yale University, 1941; Master of Arts, Yale University, 1942; Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, 1948; Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), New School for Social Research, 1982; Doctor of Letters, State University of New York, 1989; Doctor of Letters, Rosary College, 1991.
Member faculty department English, University of California, Berkeley, since 1948;
professor, University of California, 1960-1991;
professor emeritus, University of California, since 1991;
director Collegiate Seminar Program, University of California, 1974-1980. Visiting professor Wesleyan University, 1951-1953. Ward Phillips lecturer U. Notre Dame, 1969.
Member committee of selection J.S. Guggenheim Foundation, 1969-1989, chairman 1985-1989.
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Board directors Northern California chapter American Civil Liberties Union, 1959-1962, 63-66, Association American Colleges, 1979-1982, Center for the Common Good, 1994-1999. Board directors Federation State Humanities Councils, 1989-1994, chair, 1991-1993. Member Commission on Humanities, Rockefeller Foundation, 1978-1979, California Council Humanities, 1986-1994.
With United States Naval Reserve, 1942-1945. Fellow American Academy Arts and Sciences, Medieval Academy of America. Member Modern Language Association, New Chaucer Society (president 1980-1981), Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Doris Corn, July 21, 1945 (deceased 2006). Children: Jeffrey, Alison.