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Musicality, Subjectivity, and the Canterbury Tales
… is enhanced by their musical settings. Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, written at the end of the fourteenth century, uses music in a narrative framework to critique the operation of this subjectivity. Because the lyric poetry of the period was nearly always set to music, the status of the texts as …
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Musicality, Subjectivity, and the Canterbury Tales
… is enhanced by their musical settings. Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, written at the end of the fourteenth century, uses music in a narrative framework to critique the operation of this subjectivity. Because the lyric poetry of the period was nearly always set to music, the status of the texts as …
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The Anti-Crusade Voice of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
… chapter reads Chaucer's poems written before the Canterbury Tales as a critique of crusading. The fourth chapter argues that one of the central themes of the Canterbury Tales is to indirectly denounce crusading and mock crusaders. The fifth chapter revisits Chaucer's bibliography and uses it to …
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The place of "Melibee" in The Canterbury Tales
… sententious meaning which underlies the other tales. Presupposing that the tale may prove to be the keystone of The Canterbury Tales, this thesis purposes to explicate "Melibee" in its medieval context and to show its vital tie with the thematics of the other tales. The first chapter summarizes …
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Chaucer's use of folk material in the Canterbury Tales
A literary writer, even if he is concerned with the most topical subjects, cannot remain incubated within his own period and zeitgeist. He assimilates the whole cultural background of the past as it survives in the present. Just as, in the individual, the adult is the product of his youth and …
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Completeness and incompleteness in Geoffrey Chaucer's The canterbury tales
… aspects of completeness are given.</p><p>The Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer, is examined with reference to the proposed aspects of completeness. The various ways in which the work can be and has been considered incomplete are discussed. The four fragmentary Tales in The Canterbury …
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The development of twentieth century criticisms of The Canterbury tales
… twentieth-century criticisms of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Because the topic is so broad, it is necessary to find methods of limiting the subject so that it· may be adequately covered herein. This paper will be limited primarily to books published on the topic under consideration. To cover …
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Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales: Rhetoric and Gender in Marriage
… the marriage group of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales attempts to reconcile the ongoing battle for sovereignty between husband and wife. Existing hierarchies restricted women; therefore, marriage fittingly presented more obstacles for women. Chaucer creates the dynamic personalities of …
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The Allusions to the Saints in the Canterbury Tales, Their Appropriateness
… on Chaucer's allusions to saints in the Canterbury Tales. The allusions have been studied in connection with the narrator of the tale, the lines, the characters, and the general spirit of the tale to ascertain possible reasons for making reference to the saint in a particular allusion. …
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The Transcendent Comedy of the "Canterbury Tales": Harmony in "Quyting," Harmony in Fragmentation
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer has been a controversial work for many years due in part to its tonal variety which leads to questions of genre and the work's purpose. Ambiguity regarding the work's hypothetical finished state, due to its actual fragmented condition, also contributes to …
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Chaucer's Use of Rheoric in the "General Prologue" and Linkages of The Canterbury Tales
… to the "General Prologue" and headlinks of the Canterbury Tales, and, by applying medieval rhetorical tradition to the "General Prologue," to question the long held view that the "Prologue" is without model or antecedent in tradition, that it is a triumph of realism over artifice No less a …
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The unpunctuated Chaucer : a guide to reading the Medieval manuscripts of The Canterbury Tales.
The medieval manuscripts of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales are, in the modern sense, unpunctuated. That is, no commas, semicolons, question marks, or quotation marks existed in the fourteenth century. In spite of that fact, fourteenth- and fifteenth-century readers presumably had no problems reading …
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Chaucer's 'Book of Genesis' in 'The Canterbury Tales': The Biblical 'Schema' of The First Fragment
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Weasels and Angels: Rhetorical and Communicative Strength and Weakness in Selected Women of The Canterbury Tales
… of five women characters found in Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales through the lens of Helene Cixous's description of written female language as applied spoken language to examine the dichotomy of "weakness in strength" and "strength in weakness" these characters portray.
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Chaucer Live! How Performance Helps Realize the Many Chaucerian Voices in the Prologue of the Canterbury Tales
… the performance of the General Prologue of the Canterbury Tales I gave on April 9th, 2015. Live performance is a valuable method of conveying Chaucer’s work to an audience as it allows an actor to present the many voices of Chaucer in a more liberated manner. I present my case in four sections. …
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