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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Chaucer, Geoffrey"”.
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Chaucer's Prioress
Chaucer's Prioress has been an enigma to scholars who have tried to understand her. The fundamental point of contention about the Prioress centers upon the question: "Is Chaucer presenting her as a satiric figure supposedly dedicated to the Church but worldly in her pursuits, or is Chaucer …
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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 Languages of Love
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Alexander Pope's Imitations of Chaucer
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Chaucer, Shakespeare and Lucretia
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Objects and anxiety in late medieval English writing
… Two I consider worldly and mystical matter in Chaucer's "Second Nun's Tale" to demonstrate how looking at and touching manmade objects can ultimately limit knowledge of the divine. Though Chaucer provides an exemplum in the form of St. Cecile, who requires no contact with goods to realize her …
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"Of heveneriche sely gate" : the spiritual significance of women in Medieval literature.
… significant. Some literature, including Chaucer's Clerk's Tale and Malory's Morte D'Arthur, may even be redeemed from widespread charges of misogyny when read in light of Bynum's works. Thus, a reading of the literature that intentionally engages the medieval mindset (including its …
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Telling tales out of school : schoolbooks, audiences, and the production of vernacular literature in late medieval England
… audiences. In Chapter 2, a reading of Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde informed with a knowledge of the formal features of letter writing, particularly the attention to audience stressed in the grammar schoolbooks, reveals Criseyde’s control of both the story’s ending and the responses of …
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The Literary Lives of Intention in Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-Century England
… and petitions related to the Rising of 1381, Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, The Testimony of William Thorpe, and The Book of Margery Kempe;. These texts employed contemporary notions of intention to represent interiority and to establish morally coherent narratives. Late fourteenth- and early …
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The development of twentieth century criticisms of The Canterbury tales
… and to evaluate 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 …
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A comparison of two medieval story-tellers : Geoffrey Chaucer and John Gower
… the narrative 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 …
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Completeness and incompleteness in Geoffrey Chaucer's The canterbury tales
… 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 Tales--The Cook's Tale, …