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Satire in Chaucer
Was Chaucer a satirist? Or did he merely lapse into the satiric occasionally and almost unconsciously? Had he moments when his "high seriousness" was whipped into the indignation of a true satirist by the existing evils of his day? These and many more questions beg research as soon as the term …
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Chaucer, Shakespeare and Lucretia
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Alexander Pope's Imitations of Chaucer
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Chaucer and the Medieval Statius
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Chaucer and the medieval sciences
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Humanities, 1972.
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Nature in the works of Chaucer
This item was digitized by the Internet Archive. Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University
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Evidence of Old English Sound Changes in Chaucer
One of the most interesting features in the whole field of English is the study of that "glorious and imperial mongrel, the English Language." Imperial in the sense that it consists of a dominant strain which is the result of a fusion of various languages; and glorious because it is not only the …
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Keats's Chaucer: Realism and Romanticism in the English Tradition
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The Place of Chaucer in Sixteenth Century English Literature
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Penance and Penitential Intent within Religious Themed Works of Chaucer
… of classical pagan characters into some texts, Chaucer's writings are not considered as openly religious as those written by some of his contemporaries; nonetheless, there exists an undercurrent of piety throughout several of his works that merits analysis. The most prominent of these works …
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Flattery as a Concern in Three Selected Works of Geoggrey Chaucer
<p>In the following study, I intend to examine Chaucer's use of the vice of flattery in three of The Canterbury Tales: The Nun's Priest's Tale, The Tale of Melibee, and The Parson's Tale. Hopefully, this study will show that flattery was one of Chaucer's concerns, both as an offshoot of the Deadly …
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Wikked Wyves and Blythe Bachelers: Secular Misogamy From Juvenal to Chaucer
The purpose of this work is the historical, analytic and comparative investigation of the canon of ancient and medieval works of secular misogamy. Secular misogamy is discussed in apposition to monastic and sacerdotal exhortations to celibacy, and it is studied as a separate and distinct topos in …
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A comparison of two medieval story-tellers : Geoffrey Chaucer and John Gower
… and framing techniques used by Geoffrey Chaucer and John Gower. These authors were selected for several reasons. Being contemporaries, they lived through the days of the reign of Richard II, his deposition, and the accession of Henry IV. This was a time change: the age of chivalry and …
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Proto-Feminist Chaucer: The Rivalry Between the Wife of Bath and the Clerk
This essay explores whether Geoffrey Chaucer should be considered a proto-feminist, focused primarily on “The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale” and “The Clerk’s Prologue and Tale”. The Wife of Bath, as this essay states, can arguably be considered a feminist character, based on modern definitions …
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Talking Some Sense into Chaucer: Bodies in “The Miller’s Prologue” and “The Miller’s Tale”
… found in that nexus of sounds and sensation, and Chaucer’s fabliaux, through their appropriation of old language sounds into a new Middle English sensibility, become important examples of linguistic friction during the late medieval period. In other words, the sounds Chaucer produces direct …
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